Dr. P.H. Giao
Currently Giao serves an Associate Professor in Earth Science of PetroVietnam University (PVU) and Senior Specialist of Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI), in charge of the Group of Advanced Research in Geoscience & Geoengineering (DAR2G). He is also an Adjunct Faculty of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), an autonomous international post-graduate institute based in Bangkok, Thailand, where by 2020 he has been serving an Associate Professor and Chair of Geotech & Earth Res. Engineering field of study.
Giao got MSc in Geophysics from Bucharest University, M. Eng. & D. Eng. in Geotechnical Engineering with specialization in Engineering Geology & Applied Geophysics from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). He is a recipient of several academic awards, including The Tan Swan Beng Award of the SE Asian Geotechnical Society in 2005 as a co-winner for a research work on land subsidence of Bangkok plain. His two major research interests include Geotechnical Engineering (site investigation, soft clay characterization, FEM groundwater modeling and land subsidence analysis); and Geo-exploration & Petroleum Geo-engineering (Exploration geophysics, petrophysics, soft computing). He is author and co-author of more than 90 publications in international journals and proceedings on FEM groundwater modeling, land subsidence analysis, artificial recharge, exploration and engineering geophysics, petroleum engineering, petrophysics, rock physical modelling.Dr. Laura Erban
Dr. Laura Erban is a groundwater hydrologist currently working for the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development. She holds a PhD from Stanford University in Earth System Science with specialization in Hydrogeology and Water Resources and MS in Civil and Environmental with specialization in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, also from Stanford. She has a BS in Environmental Sciences with distinction from the University of Virginia. Laura's doctoral work focused on groundwater arsenic contamination in the Mekong River Delta in Cambodia and Vietnam and the consequences of groundwater extraction for arsenic occurrence and land subsidence. She continues to work with international colleagues on these important topics, as well as on domestic issues associated with excess nutrients and co-pollutants in groundwater. Laura is motivated by the management implications of these pervasive socio-environmental problems and seeks to work collaboratively to mitigate their adverse impacts.
Dr. Philip S. J. Minderhoud
Philip is an assistant professor at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, a Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Padova, Italy and an advisor on land subsidence and hydrogeology at Deltares Research Institute. As associate member of the UNESCO Land Subsidence International Initiative (LASII) he contributes to international education and knowledge sharing on land subsidence. He is a specialized on subsidence of coastal-deltaic areas, connecting the fields of geology, hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering, and remote sensing. He has been worked in the Mekong delta on delta subsidence since 2014 within the Dutch-Vietnamese Rise and Fall project. His research focus lies on increasing the fundamental understanding of processes and drivers of deltaic subsidence and developing the numerical capacities to provide better spatial-temporal assessments of current and projections of future deltaic subsidence. Beside fundamental research, he focuses on impact-orientated research aiming to create awareness and research uptake, and he is actively engaging with policymakers to develop strategies to cope with ongoing land subsidence and accelerated sea-level rise.
Dr. Tran Van Anh
Dr Tran Van Anh works as a Lecturer at Hanoi University of Mining and Geology (HUMG). She obtained her Master degree in Surveying and Mapping Engineering from HUMG, Vietnam in 2001 and her PhD degree in GeoInformatics from Osaka City University (Japan) in 2007. She has working interests in Remote sensing, Geographical Information System for land deformation detections, air pollution (PM10) determination. She has published more than 30 research papers in national and international journals and involved in many geoscience projects.