Hoa Hong Nguyen was born on February 2, 1967, in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is the daughter of Nguyen Thanh Long, a writer, and Le Thi Minh Nguyet, a medical doctor. Growing up in Vietnam, she developed a strong foundation in the sciences which eventually led her to pursue advanced academic studies on an international scale.
Nguyen began her academic journey at Hanoi University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science with honors in 1989. She continued her studies at the National Centre for Natural Sciences and Technology in Vietnam, receiving a Master of Science with honors in 1993. Her exceptional academic promise earned her a diploma from the prestigious International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy in 1994. Supported by a Monbusho scholarship from the Japanese Government, she moved to Japan to pursue her doctoral studies. In 2001, she obtained her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), focusing on the electronic and magnetic properties of thin films. She later elevated her academic credentials in Europe, successfully defending her Diplôme d'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) at the University of Tours in France in 2004.
Nguyen’s professional career reflects a truly global trajectory in the field of condensed matter physics. She started as a research assistant at the Cryogenic Laboratory of Hanoi University in 1990, subsequently working as a researcher for the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Materials Sciences in Vietnam until 1997. Following her doctoral studies, she served as a research associate in the Department of Superconductivity and Magnetism at the University of Leipzig in Germany from 2001 to 2002. She then transitioned to France, where she conducted postdoctoral research at Laboratoire LEMA at the University of Tours and worked closely with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Between 2004 and 2008, she progressed from a research associate to a high-level researcher at CNRS, focusing heavily on substrate effects and room-temperature ferromagnetism in pristine TiO2 and SnO2 thin films. Her academic leadership later extended to South Korea, where she served as a professor at Seoul National University. Currently, she holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, where she continues her research and teaches courses on collective phenomena in condensed matter physics.
Throughout her career, Nguyen has made significant contributions to the understanding of nano-sized materials and their multifunctional applications. She has authored and co-authored over a hundred scientific papers, achieving a notable H-index and influencing the fields of spintronics and applied physics. Notably, she authored the comprehensive book "Nano-sized Multifunctional Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications," published by Elsevier, which serves as a valuable resource for researchers exploring micro and nano technologies.
Member of American Physical Society, Japan Society Applied Physics, Vietnam Society Physics.
