Phan Khanh Linh is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Thuy Loi University, Vietnam. She holds a Master of Science degree in Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management from Southampton University, England (2012). She obtained a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology (2019). Her research interests include physical and numerical modelling of wave transformation through vegetation and the impacts of human interventions on the ecological processes.