Prof. Soohyun YANG

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Urban, and Environmental Engineering

Seoul National University

Dr. Soohyun YANG has been an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Seoul National University since 2023. She received her Ph.D. from the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University in 2019. From 2020 to 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Germany. Her academic pursuits primarily revolve around hydrological, geomorphological, biogeochemical, and aquatic ecological processes within multi-scale river networks. Driven by a comprehensive understanding of these processes, her research also delves into the assessment of anthropogenic impacts on both the quantity and quality of river water. Dr. Yang's research trajectory encompasses a diverse range of topics, spanning from investigations into self-similarity in river networks to the spatial organization of coupled river-human-urban water infrastructure systems. Her work extends to exploring the repercussions of human-induced wastewater pressures on rivers and employing process-based water quality modeling at the basin scale. She published several international peer-reviewed papers with the first authorship in top journals on hydrological sciences such as Water Resources Research and Water Research, and further in interdisciplinary journals on earth-environmental sciences and complex system. Notably, two of her publications received awards from the Editors of Water Resources Research