Nam-Trung Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Nam Trung; born on 14 April 1970) is a Vietnamese-Australian researcher in the fields of Microfluidics[1] and Nanofluidics.

[10] With the high score in this examination, he was awarded a scholarship for overseas undergraduate education in the former Eastern Bloc.

During this time, he also worked part-time as a worker on an assembly line, data entry personnel at a bank and waiter at restaurants.

He worked as a student researcher at Robert Bosch GmbH, where he was introduced to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for automotive applications.

These formative years in post-war Vietnam and reunified Germany have strongly shaped his character and future career.

[12] He was also the Director of the successful part-time education program of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NTU.

In 2013, he joined Griffith University in Australia and has been serving as a Professor and the Director of Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre.