Tuan Duong is an associate professor at the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Department of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Tuan is originally from Vietnam and completed his BSc and MSc degrees at the University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tuan moved to South Africa in 2008 to pursue his PhD in Genetics at FABI, University of Pretoria, and graduated in 2013. He conducted his postdoctoral research at FABI and thereafter was appointed to a research fellow position and is currently a permanent faculty member at the University of Pretoria. Tuan is an evolutionary biologist with special interests in genomics and genetics of plant pathogenic fungi, particularly the genetics underlying pathogenicity and host adaptation.