Phu, Nguyen Van
Phu Nguyen-Van is a Research Professor (Directeur de Recherche) at the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS). He holds a Ph.D. in economics (2003) and an Accreditation to Supervise Research (HDR, 2013) from the University of Strasbourg. Before joining EconomiX (a joint research unit of the CNRS and University of Paris Nanterre), he was affiliated with the THEMA (CNRS & Cergy Paris University) and the BETA (CNRS & University of Strasbourg). He is also a member of the Labex program IDGM+ (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
Research interest
Phu Nguyen-Van's main research area are Environmental Economics and Agricultural Economics using econometric, behavioral and experimental tools.
Mentoring
Participated in several PhD committees and jurys. Supervised several master theses (on average 1/year) and PhD in economics (10 completed and 4 ongoing)
Grants and consultancy
- "Individual Behavior, Climate Change, and Sustainability", RFCC Unesco, 2016-2018.
- "EcoProPhyto: Development and economic valuation of sorption process based on bio-functionalized silica for metallic micropollutants removal", IDEX-CNRS, 2018-2019.
- "Older workers' employment participation: new evidence from Luxembourg" (WorkAgeing), FNR (Luxembourg), 2017-2022.
- "Compliance and enforcement of barrier measures and containment a behavioral economics approach", ANR Flash Coronavirus, 2020-2021.
- "Resilience-after-crisis in risk, time and social preferences: a behavioral economics study with a focus on cooperativeness", ANR RESILIENCE-COVID-19, 2021-2022.
- "Hello Vietnam: drivers of organic farming in Vietnam, INRAE (France)-VNUA (Vietnam), 2019-2022.
Policy engagement
- Member of the Executive Board and the Laboratory Council, ECONOMIX, since 2022.
- Member of the Scientific Board, Center for Advanced Studies in Economics and Data Science (CASED) (Vietnam), since 2020.
- 1st vice-president of Section "Economics, Human and Social Sciences", National Commission for Professorship of the Ministry of Agriculture, France, since 2022.
- Member of Section "Economics and Management", National Committee for Scientific Research (France), 2010-2012.
Awards
- Guy Ourisson Prize in 2013 by "Le Cercle Gutenberg" (the best young researcher in Alsace region, France)
- Bronze Medal in 2015 by the CNRS (the best young researcher in France).
