Dr Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen (Minh) is an ARC Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow at Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU.

She also serves as a Chapter Scientist for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, working to support Chapter 4 - How to Facilitate and Accelerate Change.

Dr Nguyen earned her PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Melbourne in 2023. Her research interests are at the intersection of sustainability experimentation, urban transitions, and climate governance. Prior to her PhD, she graduated with a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (First Class Honours) from the University of South Australia in 2017. 

Before joining ANU, Dr Nguyen worked as a Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts at Monash University for 2 years. Her work entailed facilitating the delivery of an Australian Research Council [ARC] project on Sustainable Transformation Pathways for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (as part of the international TRANSFORM project). While at Monash, Dr Nguyen also taught the Corporate Sustainability Management course for Master of Business and Master of Environmental Sustainability students.

As an early-career researcher, Dr Nguyen has written and co-authored a number of academic publications, of which over 70% were as the first author, in “flagship” journals in the fields of Urban Studies and Sustainability Transitions. Outside ANU, Dr Nguyen has developed strong collaborative and productive relationships with key academics from universities and research institutes across Australia, the UK, Norway, and Canada, with expertise in various disciplines, such as social sciences and environmental sciences.