Dr Dung Duc Tran (PhD. Wageningen University, Netherlands) is a Senior Research Fellow of Hydrology and Water Resources Management at the National Institute of Education (NIE), and is a member of the Tropical Rivers Group at Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was the vice director of the Centre of Water Management and Climate Change (WACC) at Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC). His professional experience involves solving problems in hydrological and hydraulic modelling combined with socio-hydrology, applying GIS, implementing environmental impact assessment tools, and investigating integrated water management related to policy in agriculture and ecology. He has participated in and led more than 50 projects within the Southeast Region and Mekong Delta of Vietnam, and currently a focus on sand mining problem with his research team in Singapore. More than 50 of his projected-based studies have been published in high-impacted peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Hydrology, Agricultural Water Management, Journal of Environmental Management, and Science of the Total Environment.