Associate Professor Trần Xuân Bách. — Photo vietnamplus.vn

HÀ NỘI — Four 39-year-old individuals have become the youngest candidates nominated for professor positions this year among the 695 candidates recommended by the Grassroots-level Professor Councils for titles of professor and associate professor in the country.

The four youngest candidates are Associate Professor Trần Xuân Bách of Hà Nội Medical University, Associate Professor Nguyễn Đại Hải of the Institute of Chemical Technology under the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology, Associate Professor Đoàn Thái Sơn, and Associate Professor Hoàng Lê Trường of the Institute of Mathematics under the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology.

Additionally, there are three candidates nominated for the title of associate professor, all of whom are 33 years old.

The candidates include Lê Thanh Hà from the National Economics University, Phan Thị Thu Hiền from the Foreign Trade University, and Nguyễn Thị Hồng Nhâm from the University of Economics Hồ Chí Minh City.

The economics major boasts the highest number of candidates nominated for the titles of professor and associate professor this year, with 102 individuals.

Following closely is the medicine major with 82 candidates, followed by the chemistry-food technology major with 60 candidates, and the mechanical-dynamics major with 48 candidates.

The list of candidates nominated for the titles of professor and associate professor this year has grown by 248 individuals compared to last year's list.—VNS