Thuy est diplômé de la maîtrise en biologie à l'Université du Québec à Montréal sous la direction de Yves Bergeron et David Paré (SCF-CFL).
Sophie Gachet, Yves Bergeron, Thuy Nguyen-Xuan, Alain Leduc, Francine Tremblay. (2007). Understory vegetation of boreal tree plantations: Differences in relation to previous land use and natural forests. For. Ecol. Manage.. 242(1):49-57.. 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.01.037 lien
Thuy Nguyen-Xuan, Daniel Simard, James Fyles, Yves Bergeron, David Paré. (2000). The importance of forest floor disturbance in the early regeneration of the boreal forest of western and central Quebec: a wildfire versus logging comparison. Can. J. For. Res.. 30(9):1353-1363.. 10.1139/cjfr-30-9-1353 lien