As an ASEAN-U.S. S&T Fellow, Dr. Vannaladsaysy has worked to strengthen existing Lao PDR STI policy initiatives in priority areas, including those addressing Millenium Sustainable Development Goals, to enhance utilisation of the Laos Committee on Science and Technology (COST) initiaves. He has provided policy recommendations to his host military to strengthen Public-Private-Partnership (3P), Government-Higher Education-Business (GHB), and Research and Development for Innovation.
Dr. Vannaladsaysy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Laos (2004) and both a Master’s Degree (2007) and Ph.D. (2011) in Material Science and Engineering from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He also spent two years conducting research as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyushu University, Japan (2011), In 2015, he was an ERASMUS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy.