Nguyen Ba An is Professor at Thang Long Institute of Mathematics and Applied Sciences (TIMAS), Thang Long University (TLU), Hanoi, Vietnam and Professor at Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Hanoi, Vietnam. He is also a trustee of Asia Pacific Center of Theoretical Physics (APCTP), Pohang, Korea. From 2002 to 2005 he was Professor at School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS), Seoul, Korea.
Prof. An received his B.Sc. from Azerbaijan State University, Baku, Azerbaijan (former USSR) in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Institute of Physics, VAST, in 1983.
His research interests include quantum information/quantum computation, quantum optics (nonclassical phenomena), nonlinear optics (multimode laser dynamics), and condensed matter (electronic & optical properties of organic/inorganic heterostructures).
In 2014, he was one of the two first awardees of Ta Quang Buu prize (the most prestigious prize in science in Vietnam). The full list of his publications is available here.