Prof. David Harrison

Contact

Organisation

VinUniversity

Department

Job title

Vice Provost

Based in

Vietnam, USA, Vanuatu

Languages

English, Vietnamese

Working on daylight in relation to

Why daylight matters in my work

I am amazed at the ingenuity and resilience found in indigenous cultures, from Siberia to Oceania, and the ways people use daylight and their environmental intelligence to thrive and overcome survival challenges.

I could also have worked as

I love and collect art, especially sculpture, so I would have been an art curator.

I would have loved to have a coffee with

the great explorer Alexander von Humboldt

Most beautiful song of all time

"Alceste" by Georg Friederich Händel

Main discipline

Anthropology

Other disciplines

Botany, Computer Science, Ethnology, Linguistics

Fields of expertise

Environmental Sciences, Ethnobotany, Documentary filmmaking, Linguistics