Phong Le-Thanh is Senior Research Associate and Deputy Director of the Research Center for Rural Development at An Giang University, Vietnam. He holds an MSc in Crop Science from Can Tho University and has published in the Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (2016) on paraquat and chlopyrifos impacts on environment and farmers' health and in the Journal of Vietnam Agricultural Science and Technology (2020) on genetic diversity in floating rice by SSR markers. His research focuses on crop sciences, rural development, genetic and biodiversity, statistics and computer science.