Name: Thuy Thi Nguyen
Home country: Vietnam
Status: Doctoral Student (Apr.2015 Enrollment)　
Department: Semiconductor Electronics and Integration Science　
Laboratory: Nanodevice Engineering Laboratory
Academic Advisor: Associate Professor Shin-Ichiro Kuroki

(Interview in June 2016)

Well, after getting Vietnam Government scholarship, I accessed to the internet to find out universities in Japan as well as professors and their research fields. I thought Hiroshima University is one of the best Universities in Science and technology in Japan and a beautiful one, too. And I wanted to discovery it. My favorite research field is Electronics and Related Materials and I was interested in AdSM. After finding out most of Professors of AdSM and their fields, I was really attracted by a topic of Associate Professor Shin-Ichiro Kuroki “Poly-Si TFT and Nephron chip”. I contacted to him to enquire into this topic and I understood that this is what I really want to do.

Yes, of course. Everything surprised me. Japanese people are so polite, kind, and so hard work, too. There are many advanced apparatuses which I could not imagine before coming. Well, there are many rules for user in the experiment room, too. It took me a year to get used to it.

I think I have been getting a wonderful life in Japan, I never forget. I enjoyed my life as well as my research every single day. In addition, food, health care, and transport are really good in Japan.

Well actually, I will go back Vietnam and work for Hanoi National University of Education which I engaged to. However to be honest, I hope I could get a postdoctoral researcher to carry on my research for more few years because I want to make my devices better.

AdSM is a great place to study. If you can find your true passion and motivation on research, you will enjoy your study and life every single day in Japan.