Assoc Professor. Dr. Nguyen Tuan Khai has been the Vice President of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VinAtom) since July 1, 2025. His expertise is in nuclear physics.

Before transferring to the VinAtom, he served as the Director General of the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) for nearly nine years, from November 2016 to June 2025.

Mr. Khai received his PhD in nuclear physics in 2006 from the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, Japan.

He has spent many years researching experimental nuclear physics with heavy ion beams at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (IPN) Orsay, Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe (IRFU), France; and the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) at Osaka University, Japan.