Dr. Hai Ly Hoang
Lecturer, Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agronomy, Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry, VietNam
Dr. Hoang specialises in crop physiology. Her research interests lie in the physiological and phytochemical response of plants under environmental stress; plant secondary metabolites of medicinal plants and their roles in defense systems to better understand plant’s tolerance mechanisms.
Growing up in a coastal region of VietNam Dr. Hoang is acutely aware of the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, her home region suffering from extreme drought and salinity. Understanding how plants cope with this stress and finding ways to improve their defence mechanisms has been the driving force behind Dr. Hoang’s academic career.
She undertook her Masters in Crop Science in 2011 at Hue University, Vietnam and completed a PhD in Horticulture in 2018 at University of the Philippines. In 2019 Dr. Hoang and her research team were awarded first prize in ninth technically creative contest in Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam.
“Setting a fine example”
Emboldened by her Meryl Williams Fellowship, Vietnamese researcher and educator Hai Ly Hoang is challenging traditional attitudes in her own life and that of her students.