Dr Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen (Minh) is an ARC Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow at Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU. She also serves as Chapter Scientist and Contributing Author for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, working to support Chapter 4 - How to Facilitate and Accelerate Change.

Dr Nguyen earned her PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Melbourne in 2023. Her research interests are at the intersection of sustainability experimentation, urban transitions, and climate governance. Prior to her PhD, she graduated with a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (First Class Honours) from the University of South Australia in 2017. 

Before joining ANU, Dr Nguyen worked as a Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts at Monash University for 2 years. Her work entailed facilitating the delivery of an Australian Research Council [ARC] project on Sustainable Transformation Pathways for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (as part of the international TRANSFORM project). While at Monash, Dr Nguyen also taught a compulsory graduate course, Corporate Sustainability Management, for Master of Business and Master of Environmental Sustainability students, and successfully supervised a Master’s student thesis to completion.

As an early career researcher, Dr Nguyen has written and co-authored a number of academic publications in “flagship” journals in the field of Urban Studies and Sustainability Transitions. Her research outputs demonstrate strong policy relevance and have been cited in major global policy reports, including the UN-Habitat World Cities Report 2024: Cities and Climate Action, the European Commission report Research and Innovation for Climate Neutrality by 2050, and the UNEP and UN-Habitat Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO) for Cities report.

Outside ANU, Dr Nguyen has developed strong collaborative and productive relationships with key academics from universities and research institutes across Australia, the UK, Norway, and Canada, with expertise in various disciplines, such as social science, environmental science and computer science.

Research Interests

• Sustainability transitions
• Urban sustainability experiments
• Climate governance
• Urban resilience
• Mission-oriented innovation & transformative innovation
• SDG localisation
• Urban climate policy
• Transnational city networks
• Metropolitan planning