Yang Zhang#
| Membership Number: | 6657 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://coe.northeastern.edu/people/zhang-yang/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8591-9598 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Professor, Distinguished Fellow, and Associate Chair for Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
- 2009 - 2019 Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- 2006 - 2009 Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- 2003 - 2006 Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- 2001 - 2003 Senior Scientist, Atmospheric & Environmental Research, Inc.
- 1997 - 2001 Staff Scientist, Atmospheric & Environmental Research, Inc.
- 1994 - 1997 Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
- 1990 - 1994 PhD student and Research Assistant, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- 1990 - 1992 Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- 1988 - 1990 Assistant Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Air pollution and air quality
- Atmospheric chemistry, physics, and transport
- Aerosol chemistry and microphysics
- Chemistry-aerosol-cloud-climate interactions
- Multiscale (global to hyperlocal) atmospheric modeling and forecasting
- Integrated modeling for meteorological and chemical weather prediction
- Climate and Earth system modeling
- Linkages among air pollution, climate change, energy, ecosystem, and health
- Human-Earth system interactions
- Health impact assessment
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Top 2% Scientists Worldwide selected by Stanford University, Dec., 2021
- January 9, 2018 – August 30, 2019 The RTI University Scholar Awards
- 2017 The FAPESP (The São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil) Visiting Researcher Program Award
- 2017 The University of Wollongong (UOW) Vice - Chancellors Visiting International Scholar Award (VISA)
- 2011 & 2017 Fellowship Award, the Atmospheric Environment Center (CEREA), Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France
- 2017 Scholarship Award for Teacher-Researchers and Researchers and Visiting Scholars, the University of Paris-Est, France
- 2011 & 2014 Travel Award as a Faculty advisor, the Graduate Visitor Program under the NCAR’s the Advanced Study Program
- 2010 - 2013 Chang Jiang Chair Professor, Tsinghua University, China
- 2006 Funded UCAR Visiting Scientist, Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division (ASMD), the U.S. EPA/NOAA
- 2005 Funded Visiting Scientist, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Visiting Scientist Programs
- 2004 Funded Visiting Scientist, the NOAA Faculty Research Participation Program
- 2004 National Science Foundation Career Award, 2004
- 1995 Selected with travel award in the 3rd Biennial Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists
- 1987 Second Place, the Annual Science and Technology Works Contest of Tsinghua University
