Duc Trinh Tran

Dr. Duc Trinh Tran

Acting Research Fellow Coordinator

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Trinh Duc Tran is a researcher on the topics of natural resources, environment and water resources management, water modeling, nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation, urban resilience. He previous was in a teaching position with the Master program on Natural Resources Management/Integrated Water Resources Management offered by Cologne University of Applied Sciences (TH Köln). Trinh has been PI and co-PI of research projects funded by European Horizon programme, Gernam Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) among many other international and RMIT internal research grants. 

Industry experience
Development of training material on natural resources management for Mekong Delta Climate Resilience Programme (German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH - GIZ)

Technical assistance on climate change, territory resilience and integrated water resources management (France Development Agency - AFD)

Project Sustainability and technical support for integrated water resources management and urban development in relation to climate change (Belgium Technical Cooperation - ENABEL)

UN sustainable development goals

  • 13 Climate Action
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  • 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
  • 14 Life Below Water
  • 15 Life on Land
  • 17 Partnerships for the Goals
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

Supervisor projects

  • Enhancing Plastic Waste Mitigation through Informal Sector: insights from System Dynamics simulations
  • 25 Aug 2024
  • Flood Hazard Assessment with Multi-Mission Satellite Earth Observation for Enhancing Climate Risk Resilience
  • 29 May 2024
  • GNSS Atmosphere Sounding for Climate and Environment Studies
  • 20 Feb 2024

Teaching interests

Natural resources management; Environmental management;

Research interests

Research interest is aligned with Sustainable Development Cluster with themes on Green infrastructure and urban water management; Environment management; Nature-based solution assessment and evaluation, Circular Economy, Optimisation of natural resources use and management; Disaster risk and climate change adaptation.