Minh-Hiep Nguyen is a senior researcher in particle technology with a Ph.D in food bioscience and technology from Korea University. He has over 10 years of experience in research and teaching. His expertise includes encapsulation of active ingredients in nanocarriers and fabrication of pH-responsive nanoparticles. He is fluent in Vietnamese and English with basic Korean skills. He is applying for a lecturer-researcher position and his qualifications include strong communication, planning, and teamwork skills.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
MINH-HIEP NGUYEN, Ph.D
Senior Researcher in Particle Technology Lab
Blk N1.2-B4-04, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological
University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637459
Tell: +65-85047978 or +84-915634715
Email: jackminhhiep@yahoo.com or nguyenmh@ntu.edu.sg
PERSONAL INFORMATION
• Date of birth: 04 – 01 – 1984
• Place of birth: Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
• Nationality: Vietnamese
• Permanent address: 20D34, 3-2 Street, Ward 12, District 10, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
• Current address: 1B Trần Khánh Dư, Ward 8, Dalat city, Lam Dong province, Vietnam
OBJECTIVE
• To apply for a lecturer-researcher position at Department of Applied Science, Ton Duc
Thang University
QUALIFICATIONS
• Organized, efficient, and precise with strong communication and liaison skills
• Skilled in planning and execution of special projects
• Enthusiastic, creative and willing to assume increase responsibility
• Independent in work and well cooperative in team
EDUCATION
Feb 2013 Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Biotechnology, Korea
Univeristy, Seoul, South of Korea
 Overal GPA: 4.17/4.5 (scale)
 Major in Food Bioscience and Technology
 Concentration: Application of nanocarriers in Food Chemistry
and Crop Protection
 Ph.D thesis: Lipid based nanocarriers prepared by different
methods for enhanced payload and photoprotection of
pesticides

2. Feb 2009 Master of Science in Biological Engineering, Department of
Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Inha University,
Incheon, South of Korea
 Overall GPA: 4.17/4.5 (scale)
 Major in White Biotechnology
 Concentration: Application of ionic lipids in synthetic reactions
and separation.
 Master thesis: Lipase – catalyzed synthesis of sugar esters in
ionic liquids
Oct 2006 Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Natural Sciences,
Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
 Overall GPA: 7.65/10 (scale)
 Major in Microbiology and Biochemistry
 Concentration: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular
Biotechnology
 Bachelor thesis: Cloning and expressing human mini -
proinsulin fusion to Ubiquitin in Escherichia coli
SPECIAL SKILLS
Language
• Fluent in Vietnamese
• Posses excellent English, reading, writing and conversation skills
• Posses basic level Korean, reading and conversation skills
Computer
• Sigma Plot
• SPSS Data Editor
• Adobe Photoshop
• Endnote
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Power Point
• Paint
Key techniques

3. • Expert in encapsulation of active-ingredients (vitamins, anti-cancer drugs and pesticides)
into nanocarriers such as liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, nanostructured lipid carriers,
nano-emulsions and water/oil/water emulsions.
• Expert in fabrication of pH-responsive nanoparticles.
• Expert in synthesis of sugar ester using ionic liquids
• Expert in cloning, expressing and purifying recombinant protein
• Experience and expertise using spray dryer, electrospray & spinning, FT-IR, FPLC,
HPLC, gas chromatography, TEM, SEM, FE-SEM, high pressure homogenizer, Nano-ZS
nano size analyzer, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, fluorescence spectrophotometer, optical
microscope, confocal laser scanning microscope, transmission electron microscope, reaction
block, rotary vacuum evaporator, PCR etc.
EXPERIENCES
Research
Feb 2016 – Present Senior Researcher in Center of Radiation Technology, Dalat
Nuclear Research Institute, Vietnam
Nov 2014 – Jan 2016 Senior Researcher (Post-doctor) in Particle Technology Lab,
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
Mar 2010 – Sep 2014 Senior Researcher (Post-doctor) in Laboratory of Biopolymers
Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South of Korea
May 2009 – Feb 2016 Lecturer in Department of Biology, University of Pedagogy, Ho
Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Mar 2007 – Mar 2009 Researcher in Laboratory of Bio-nanoprocess, Inha University,
Incheon, South of Korea
Aug 2006 – Feb 2007 Researcher in Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology, University
of Natural Sciences, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Sep 2005 – Aug 2006 Assistant researcher in Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology,
University of Natural Sciences, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Teaching
Sep 2009 – Dec 2009 “Practice on Biochemistry”, Department of Biology, University of
Pedagogy, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Presentation
Oct 2013 Speaker at Symposium of The International Harmonization for
Nano-food on Processing, Application and Regulation, South of
Korea
Sep 2012 Speaker at 15th
International Biotechnology Symposium and
Exhibition (IBS 2012), South of Korea
Project Implementation

4. Jun 2010 – Sep 2014 Main researcher of the project granted by Kyung-Nong Co. Ltd.,
South of Korea (www.knco.co.kr)
AWARDS
Oct 2013 Outstanding Contribution Award from Vietnamese Students’
Association in the Republic of Korea
Oct 2012 Outstanding Contribution Award from Embassy of Vietnam in the
Republic of Korea
Sep 2012 Research Excellence Award from BK21 (Brain Korea 21)
Oct 2011 Outstanding Contribution Award from Vietnamese Students’
Association in the Republic of Korea
Apr 2006 Three Good Standard Student Award from Vietnamese Students’
Association
SCHOLARSHIPS
Sep 2013 – Sep 2014 Postdoctoral fellowship for foreign researchers from National
Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
Feb 2010 – Feb 2012 Scholarship for foreign students from Korea University, Seoul,
South of Korea
Feb 2007 – Feb 2009 Scholarship for foreign students from Inha University, Incheon,
South of Korea
2002 – 2006 Annual scholarship from Vietnam Ministry of Education and
Training for the top 10 percent of academic year, field of Biology,
University of Natural Sciences, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
PUBLICATIONS
• H.M. Nguyen, T.T. Tran, K. Hadinoto, Controlling the burst release of amorphous drug-
polysaccharide nanoparticle complex via crosslinking of the polysaccharide chains. Eur. J.
Pharm. Biopharmaceutics 104 (2016) 156–163.
• H.M. Nguyen, H. Yu, B. Dong, K. Hadinoto, A supersaturating delivery system of
silibinin exhibiting high payload achieved by amorphous nano-complexation with chitosan.
Eur. J. Pharm. Sci. 2016 (Accepted).
• H.M. Nguyen, T.H.N. Nguyen, I.C. Hwang, H.J. Park, Effect of physical state of
nanocarriers on their penetration into the root and upward transportation to the stem of
soybean plants using confocal laser scanning microscopy. Crop Prot. 87 (2016) 25–30.
• H.M. Nguyen, H. Yu, T.Y. Kiew, K. Hadinoto, Cost effective alternative to
nanoencapsulation: amorphous curcumin-chitosan nanoparticle complex exhibiting high
payload and supersaturation generation, Eur. J. Pharm. Biopharmaceutics 96 (2015) 1–10 .
• H.M. Nguyen, N.F.K. Aripin, H.J. Park, Methodologies used for the characterization of
Nano- and Microcapsules (Chapter IV). In H.S. Kwak (ed.) Nano- and Microencapsulation
for Foods. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published (2014).

5. • H.M. Nguyen, J.S. Lee, I.C. Hwang, H.J. Park, Evaluation of penetration of nanocarriers
into red pepper leaf using confocal laser scanning microscopy, Crop Prot. 66 (2014) 61–66.
• H.M. Nguyen, I.C. Hwang, H.J. Park, Enhanced photoprotection for photo-labile
compounds using double-layer coated corn oil-nanoemulsions with chitosan and
lignosulfonate, J. Photochem. Photobiol., B 125 (2013) 194–201. .
• H.M. Nguyen, I.C. Hwang, D.K. Kweon, H.J. Park, Enhanced payload of lipid
nanocarriers using supersaturated solution prepared by solvent-mediated method, J.
Microencapsulation 30 (2013) 657–666.
• H.M. Nguyen, I.C. Hwang, J.W. Park, H.J. Park, Photoprotection for deltamethrin using
chitosan-coated beeswax solid lipid nanoparticles, Pest Manage. Sci. 7 (2012) 1062–8.
• H.M. Nguyen, I.C. Hwang, J.W. Park, H.J. Park, Enhanced payload and photo-protection
for pesticides using nanostructured lipid carriers with corn oil as liquid lipid, J.
Microencapsulation 29 (2012) 596–604.
• S.H. Ha, H.M. Nguyen, Y.M. Koo, Enhanced production of fructose palmitate by lipase-
catalyzed esterification in ionic liquids, Biotechnol. Bioprocess Eng. 15 (2010) 126–30.
• S.H. Ha, H.M. Nguyen, S.H. Lee, Y.M. Koo, Optimization of lipase – catalyzed glucose
ester synthesis in ionic liquids, Bioprocess Biosyst. Eng. 33 (2009) 63–70.
• S.H. Lee, H.M. Nguyen, Y.M. Koo, S.H. Ha, Ultrasound-enhanced lipase activity in the
synthesis of sugar ester using ionic liquids, Process Biochem. 43 (2008) 1009–12.
• S.H. Lee, S.H. Ha, H.M. Nguyen, W.J. Chang, Y.M. Koo, Lipase-catalyzed synthesis of
glucose fatty acid ester using ionic liquids mixtures, J. Biotechnol. 133 (2008) 486–9.
PERSONAL INTERESTS
• Playing table tennis, soccer and tennis
• Watching science fiction movies
REFERENCES
• Huyn-Jin Park, Ph.D
Professor
Laboratory of Biopolymers Engineering
Department of Biotechnology, Korea University
1, 5ga, Anam-dong, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, South of Korea
Tell: +82-2-3290-3450, Fax: +82-2-953-5892
Email: hjpark@korea.ac.kr
• Jae-W. Park, Ph.D
Professor
Seafood Research and Education Center, Oregon State University

6. 2001 Marine Drive, Astoria. Oregon 97103, USA
Tell: 503-325-4531, Fax: 503-325-2753
Email: surimiman1@yahoo.com or jae.park@oregonstate.edu

7. 2001 Marine Drive, Astoria. Oregon 97103, USA
Tell: 503-325-4531, Fax: 503-325-2753
Email: surimiman1@yahoo.com or jae.park@oregonstate.edu