Dr Kate Nguyen
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
STEM College | School of Engineering
Innovative Fire and Facade Engineering Group
Email: kate.nguyen@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 39925 8164
Campus: Melbourne City
STEM College | School of Engineering
Innovative Fire and Facade Engineering Group
Email: kate.nguyen@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 39925 8164
Campus: Melbourne City
Kate is currently the leader of RMIT's Innovative Fire and Facade Engineering Group. She has established herself as one of the leaders in sustainable and fire safe solutions for construction.
Dr Nguyen is proud to be the first researcher in Civil Engineering to receive the L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship (2020). She was the second female engineer in Australia to be awarded the Batterham Medal for Engineering Excellence by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Dr Nguyen was named in The Australian’s 2021 Research magazine as Australia’s top researcher in composite materials.
Her research impacts are proven through her leadership in major industry-oriented projects including three CRC-Ps, a Global Innovation Linkage and the prestigious Discovery Early Career Researchers Award (DECRA) by the Australian Research Council. She has attracted over $3mil research grants and industry funding.
Dr Nguyen's passion in Engineering, particularly in Construction and Civil Engineering, extends to the enabling of gender equity as well as supporting inclusion and belongings in the profession.
Chief Engineer - Cladding Safety Victoria
State Chair, Victoria/Tasmania/Overseas Committee, Society of Fire Safety, Engineers' Australia
Member - FP-011 Special Hazard Fire Protection Systems, Standards Australia
Member - Fire and Life Safety Working Group, Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Guest Editor of Polymer's Special Issue on "Flame Retardant Polymers and Hybrid Composites: recycling and circular economy"
Member - Editorial Board of "Frontiers in Built Environment" (Fire Resistant Engineering)
Nanocomposites, Flame Retardants, Construction Materials, Facade Engineering, Fire Safety Design, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Automation and technology in building and construction, Built Environment
Publications
Grants
Awards
Fire and Materials
Nguyen, K., Kim, NK.,Bhattacharyya, D., Mouritz, A., (2021).
Composite Science and Technology
Nguyen, H., Nguyen, K., Le, T., Soufeiani, L., Mouritz, A., (2021).
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
Nguyen, K., Bui, D., Hashemi, M., Hocking, D., Mendis, P., Strugnell, D., Dharmage, S., (2021).
ARC
Kate Nguyen
2019 - 2022
ARC
2021 - 2026
CRC-P
2020 - 2022
Award date: 2021
Recipients: Kate Nguyen
Award date: 2020
Recipients: Kate Nguyen
Award date: 2019-2022
Recipients: Kate Nguyen
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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