Meet the 2014/2015 ASEAN Science and Technology Fellows

As a senior researcher at the Institute of Energy Science Center for Sustainable Energy Research at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology Institute of Energy Science, Dr Nam has focused on integrated energy planning and energy-economic-climate models. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Energy and Green Growth Research where he involved in development programs promoting sustainable development and climate change mitigations. He is a certified measurement and verification professional from the Association of Energy Engineers.

As an ASEAN S&T Fellow, Dr  Nam would like to draft a policy brief and provide policy recommendations on large scale renewable energy deployment in Vietnam and possibilities of formation of national Renewable Energy Hub/Zones. Dr Nam was the recipient of the US Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program on: Energy Security and Utilities Management in 2014. Under the fellowship programme, Dr Nam will be working with Viet Nam Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation under the Viet Nam Ministry of Science and Technology.

Dr Nam received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2006) from the Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Vietnam, and his M.Sc. (2011) from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Queensland in Australia. Dr  Nam received his Ph.D. in development economics from the National Academy of Politics in Vietnam (2018).

As an ASEAN-U.S. Science and Technology Fellow pilot program, Dr. Marganingrum has got a lot of new experiences and develop her capacity building and networking with other scientists with different majors and countries.

She is graduated from Enviromental Engineering Department at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Bandung-Indonesia in 1996. And took her master degree at Management Industry and Enviromental Engineering Department (2000) and doctoral degree in 2013 respectively.

Her strong interest in water and water management has led to her reasearch on water and correlated water and management such as water pollution, water poverty, water and spatial planning, etc.

Dr. Kyaw current expertise focused on “Assessment of Biodiversity of the Hydropower plant and Enviromental Policy of the upper Paunglaung hydropower dam in Myanmar” and “Enviromental and Social Impact Assessment effects of the hydropower plant of the upper Paunglaung hydropower dam in Myanmar”.

She is an Assistant Lecturer, Department of Zoology, University of Yangon, Myanmar. She got her B.Sc (Honours), MSc and PhD in Zoology from the Univeristy of Mandalay.

She expect that the ASEAN-U.S. Science and Technology fellowship program is a good policy maker concerned with the science especially in environmental ongoing process and public policy to help governmental bodies plan, and make it more efficient and effective by cooperating with other scientists for the sake of national interests by setting work plan to get better national progress for present and future.

Dr. Pineda has interest on health and taking up Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Medical Technology and Doctorate Degree in Biological Science. Currently, she is a college instructor at the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Pharmacy Department of Medical Technology, where she is involved in honing future medical technologists, in serving the community through public heallth, and in doing health related researches.

Her research interests are focused on

• Gestational Diabetes mellitus
• Dengue and Malaria
• Climate Change

As ASEAN- U.S. Science and Technology Fellow, she hope this program may formulate national policies which will be implemented and applied, and will definitely be the most important contribution of every research.

After received his Ph.D in Materials Science from Washington State University in 2007, Dr. Hlaing Oo worked as postdoctoral researcher in University of Utah and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research work involved very specialized techniques in nano-structured materials, mathematical modeling and renewable energy systems.

He hopes that ASEAN-U.S. Science and Technology Fellows Pilot Program is an excellent opportunity to broaden his knowledge more into science and policy making. He also expect that this program would proof that scientists with PhD programs are not only for laboratory based research, but also for a wide range of professions.

Dr. Thoetkiattikul received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and obtaining her Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Georgia in 2006.  She is currently working as a researcher at the Enzyme Technology Laboratory, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Biotec), Thailand.

Her research focus is the development of metagenomic DNA technology for the identification of microbial genomes and their metabolic potential from a particular environment using high-throughput pyrosequencing technique.

As an ASEAN-U.S Science and Technology (S&T) fellow, she hope to learn the thought and decision making processes behind national and regional policies. She hope this program may develop a strong network within the ASEAN community, the ASEAN Secretariat, the US Community and colleagues from other connected sector ministries in Thailand and globally.

Dr. Nga has her background in the Earth science, she got the master degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 2001 and finished her PhD Degree at the Nagoya University, Japan in October 2008. She had been working at Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) for more than 10 years as a forecaster and researcher. Now, She is currently working at Vietnam Satellite Center.

As the ASEAN-U.S. Science and Technology, she expects that this program may improve the skills and opportunity to apply her knowledge on meteorological related hazards successfully to support policy in the early warning in disaster risk reduction and to communicate effectively with the public and other non-academic people.