RISUD Research Seminar: Recent Advances in Atmospheric Composition Research: Multi-Scale, Integration, Interdisciplinary, and Societal Impacts

Air quality and climate research at Northeastern University, U.S., spans from hyperlocal/ urban air pollution to regional/ global climate change. This seminar will highlight major research activities and recent progress in synergetic modeling of air pollutants and greenhouse gases and integrated study on hyperlocal street-scale air pollution through monitoring, modeling, health impact assessment, and machine learning.  

Biography

Prof. ZHANG Yang

Professor, Distinguished Fellow, and Associate Chair for Research,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.

Prof. ZHANG is a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, U.S. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Iowa, U.S. and a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. 

Her interdisciplinary research advances scientific understanding through the development and application of numerical models and analytical tools and their integrations with observations to address pressing science and policy questions. These include controlling air pollution, mitigating climate change, protecting human health, and reducing environmental damage across the entire Earth system. 

Prof. Zhang has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is a recipient of the U.S. NSF Career Award in Atmospheric Chemistry and several international fellowships and scholarships. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and serves on the WMO's Global Air quality Forecasting and Information System (GAFIS) Steering Committee, and the External Advisory Committee of the Community Modeling and Analysis System center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.