Nguyen Duc Thanh
Vietnam
Asia and the Pacific
Research Institute of Forest Industry
Themes of special interest – Conservation of archaeological wood
Professional biography
Dr. NGUYEN Duc-Thanh is a senior researcher at the Research Institute of Forest Industry under the Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences. He received a Doctoral degree in 2018 from Kyoto University, Japan, through the Japanese Government’s Global 30 (G30) special program. His doctoral dissertation topic was a study on the conservation of archaeological waterlogged wood in Vietnam. His research focuses on wood technology, with an emphasis on wood processing, preservation, and
particularly the conservation of archaeological wood using polymeric materials. Dr. Thanh has
conducted several conservation projects involving excavated wooden artifacts from the Thang Long
Imperial Citadel site in Hanoi, the Vuon Chuoi archaeological site in Hanoi, the Cao Quy
archaeological site in Hai Phong, and the Royal Woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty in Da Lat, Lam
Dong, wooden shipwrecks in Bac Ninh, Quang Nam,…
Email: nguyenducthanh.fuv[at]gmail.com
Website: https://thanhwood.com/