Nguyễn Thị Kim Thanh FRSC FInstP FRSB FIMMM is a professor of Nanomaterials at University College London.

[3] She was selected for the Netherlands organisation for international cooperation in higher education (NUFFIC) scheme and moved to the University of Amsterdam to begin a Master's program in chemistry.

[3] Thanh completed her master's degree in 1994, before being selected for a PhD program in biochemistry at the University of East London.

[6] In 2009 Thanh joined University College London as an associate professor of nanotechnology, where she is based in the Davy Faraday Laboratory.

[12] Thanh is involved with the London Centre for Nanotechnology and was a co-founding member of the Global Young Academy.