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ABOUT ME

I'm working at NAOJ in the role of an ALMA science staff (ALMA Fellowship) involved in the operation and user support of the NAOJ Chile Observatory. Parts of my duties include of operating the current largest radio interferometric telescope: Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which is located in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile.
 

ALMA is an international partnership of ESO (Europe), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada) and NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan) and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO, and NAOJ.

Curriculum Vitae 

(short version below)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Massive black holes in dwarf galaxies and the origin of the first high-redshift black hole seed formation mechanisms

  • The evolution of galaxies and massive black holes, scaling relations

  • Active galactic nuclei, impact on their host galaxies and star formation

  • Dwarf starburst galaxies, super star clusters and the formation of globular clusters

  • Nuclear Star Clusters 

  • ​Gravitational Lensing

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Astronomy, University of  Utah

  • M.S. Astronomy, University of Utah

  • B.S. Physics, Quy Nhon University

 

RESEARCH POSITIONS​

  • NAOJ Postdoctoral Fellow,  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (2018 - 2021)

  • Graduate Research Associate, University of Utah 

  • Graduate Research Assistant, University of Utah 

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Utah 

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Natural Science, HCM National University 

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SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

  • NAOJ-ALMA Fellowship (2018-2021) - Accepted

  • ESO-Chile (Vitacura) ALMA Fellowship (2018-2022) - Declined 

  • Eccles Graduate Research Fellowship (2017-2018)

  • Graduate Travel Award, University of Utah (2016)

  • Swigart Graduate Research Award (2015)

  • Odon Vallet Undergraduate Research Award (2011)

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@2018 Dieu D. Nguyen

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