Rate My Professor Yifang Zhu

Dr. Yifang Zhu is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1997 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. Her research interests center on air pollution, climate change, environmental exposure assessment, and aerosol science and technology. Her work emphasizes measuring and modeling air pollutant emissions, transport, and transformation, along with assessing and mitigating associated health effects.

Dr. Zhu has received several national awards recognizing her scholarship, including the Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award from the Health Effects Institute in 2007, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation in 2009, and the Haagen-Smit Prize from Atmospheric Environment in 2011. She has delivered the 51st Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture. Her publications include studies on ultrafine particles near highways, in-cabin commuter exposure, health co-benefits of decarbonization pathways, and biomarkers of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. She maintains affiliations with the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.