Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh

Prof. Kim Oanh is the Distinguished Professor of the Environmental Engineering and Management Program at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. She is also the founding Director of Center for Nexus of Air Quality, Health, Ecosystem, and Climate at AIT. She has over 35 years of working experience in research, education, consultancy, and capacity building and is internationally recognized for her work on air pollution and climate in Asia with a focus on Southeast Asia. She spends untiring efforts to provide a better characterization of air pollution issues in Asian developing countries through field measurements, emission inventory, and modeling studies at urban, national, and regional scales. She has published 2 books (ed.), 130+ international peer-reviewed scientific papers, 45+ book chapters, and 60+ important development reports. With her extensive experience and professional networking capacity she has conducted, as PI or Co-PI, 60+ regional collaboration research projects. She also organized, co-organized, and served as a key resource person for 200+ training courses in air quality and climate related topics. Under her supervision as the advisor, as of 2024, there are 145 Master’s and 16 Ph D AIT graduates who are now working in Asia and beyond. Professor Kim Oanh has taken sabbaticals at the University of Washington in Seattle and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA (2004), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany (2012).