Nguyen TK Thanh

Nguyễn Thị Kim Thanh is a professor of Nanomaterials at University College London. She was awarded the 2019 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her research and efforts toward gender equality.

Early life and education Thanh grew up in Vietnam. She studied chemistry at the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, which she graduated in 1992. During her PhD she developed new techniques to study the renal toxicity of N-Phenylanthranilic acid.

In 2009 Thanh joined University College London as an associate professor of nanotechnology, where she is based in the Davy Faraday Laboratory. She studies nanomaterials and their applications in biomedicine, and has continued to investigate colloidal gold. She is particularly interested in magnetic nanoparticles and how they can be used to treat cancer.

Awards and honours In 2010 she presented her work in nanoscience at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition. The project was selected by the New Scientist as one of the highlights of the show. Thanh is involved with the London Centre for Nanotechnology and was a co-founding member of the Global Young Academy. She has presented at the World Economic Forum, the Vietnam Young Academy and the European Commission.

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). Clinical Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Fabrication to Clinical Applications Determination of Size and Concentration of Gold Nanoparticles from UV−Vis Spectra Progress in applications of magnetic nanoparticles in biomedicine