Quan V. DAU is a hydrologist and researcher in water resources management. He obtained his Master's degree in civil engineering from MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines (2013), and a Ph.D. degree in water resources engineering from Khon Kaen University, Thailand (2017).

His research mainly focused on understanding climate and socio-economic changes in the water resources system. Principally, he worked on the development of robust tools for sustainable planning and management of reservoirs and hydrology. He used machine learning, artificial intelligence paradigms, and data mining for analyzing complex environmental systems.

Quan V. DAU has many years of experience working on various water-related projects in Asia and Europe. He was a research assistant at Water Resources Environmental Institute in Thailand (2015 – 2016). At the same time, he joined UNESCO-Bangkok for a research project on “climate change vulnerability for Greater Mekong Sub-region” as a consultant. He was then appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom (Feb 2018 – Apr 2020), and the National Research Institute of Agriculture, Food and the Environment in France (Jun 2020 – Mar 2021). Afterward, he worked at UNESCO-Vietnam for a research project on “water security for sustainable development in the context of climate change” (Aug 2021 – Jan 2022).

Currently, Quan V. DAU is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Climate Change and Adaptation, Faculty of Science, University of Prince Edward Island in Canada. He is working on various research projects about climate change impact assessment and adaptation for Prince Edward Island.