He received his double BA degrees from the Hanoi National University of Education and his MA and Ph D from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. He had an internship at Hiroshima University, Japan, and he was a short-term scholar at the University of Georgia, United States of America. He received the Outstanding Young Teacher Award from the Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Campaign medal of the Vietnam Psychology Association. His empirical research focuses on divergent thinking in creative learning and innovative teaching, especially the effects of problem-based learning on the creative thinking abilities of students.