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NGUYỄN T. K. THANH MAE FRSC FInstP FRSB FAPS FIMMM

held a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2005-2014) and is a Professor of Nanomaterials. She is based at UCL Nanomaterials Laboratory, at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, the oldest independent scientific research body in the world and Biophysics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy. She is currently Vice Dean for Innovation and Enterprise, Maths & Phys. Sci. Faculty, University College London. 

Her Research Interest is in Nanomaterials for Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences and Nanotechnology.

She received the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2019 for her achievement in the field of nanomaterials and her impactful project proposal.

2019 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award Public Lecture “Nanomaterials from bench to bedside”

In April 2024, she was elected as a member of Academia Europaea to become the first Vietnamese national to achieve this distinction. 

She was the winner of 2025 Creating Impact Through Knowledge Exchange – UCL Provost’s Spirit of Innovation Award

She is an AWARDEE OF THE IUPAC 2023 DISTINGUISHED WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY OR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. 

She was named winner 2022 RSC Interdisciplinary Prize, recognising her brilliance in research and innovation. 

Her work on on “Magnetic Iron Oxide nanoflowers for a better cancer treatment” was a finalist for  the Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies Competition 2022 in Health catergory.

Thanh gave a Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourse on Nanomaterials for the future of healthcare, Nov 2022. You can watch the recording here. 

She was awarded SCI/RSC Colloids Groups 2023 Graham Prize Lectureship to recognise an outstanding mid-career researcher in colloid and interface science. The lecture is to be delivered at UK Colloids 2023 meeting to be held in July 17th-19th 2023 in Liverpool, UK.

She is Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry book Series, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

She is also a visiting Professor at European Engineering School in Chemistry, Polymers and Materials, University of Strasbourg, France.

MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES: From Fabrication to Clinical Applications Book, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Jan 2012. Review on the book

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES  Book, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Feb 2018

2019 UCL Lunch Hour Lecture on “Nanomterials tackling the global health challenges”