Education:

• PhD (Atmospheric Environmental Science), The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China (2009)
• B.Sc. Mathematics (Scientific Computation), The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (2004)

Research Experience:

• Dec 2019 – Jul 2021: Associate Professor (tenured) at Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
• Dec 2013 – Nov 2019: Assistant Professor at Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
• Feb 2012 – Nov 2013: Research Scientist at Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Sep 2010 – Jan 2012: Research Associate at Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Nov 2019 – Aug 2010: Post-doctoral Associate at Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge                
• May 2009 – Nov 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Biography:

I am an Associate Professor of the Asian School of the Environment at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. By training, I am an atmospheric scientist and a modeler. To develop a sustainable environment, my research devotes to improve the knowledge of climate change and air quality, and the influences on human health and planetary health. Besides research, I strive to contribute to various government committees and professional associations, aiming at transferring my developed knowledge through research to the society. I serve as the member of the Global Air Pollution and Health - Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG) of the World Health Organization (WHO), and also serve as the invited committee member of the National Advisory Board on Atmospheric Science Discipline in Higher Education, the Ministry of Education of China. Additionally, I contribute to the editorial boards of international peer-review journals including Scientific Reports (Nature) and Atmosphere.

Research Interests:

My research focuses on the interactions between climate and air quality, and the resultant impacts on public health and ecosystem. My on-going research is to develop, advance and utilize the state-of-the-art multi-scale atmospheric models, along with measurement and statistical approaches, to understand the mechanisms that drive the climate-air quality interactions, and evaluate the impacts on human exposure, mosquito abundance and soil acidity. Particular interests are in investigating air quality impacts of sectoral emissions and transboundary air pollution at multiple spatial scales, studying regional climate change due to land-use changes and global climate change, and evaluating and quantifying the effects of air pollution on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. My research also assesses and develops emission control scenarios to provide scientific-based policy solutions for a sustainable environment in present and future years.

Selected Publications:

• Wang M.Y., Huang T., Wong D.C., Ho K.F., Dong G.H., Yim S.H.L.* (2021). A new approach for health-oriented ozone control strategy: Adjoint-based optimization of NOx emission reductions using metaheuristic algorithms. Journal of Cleaner production, 312, 127533.
• Nduka I.C., Tam C.Y., Guo J., Yim S.H.L.* (2021). Characteristics of surface energy balance and atmospheric circulation during hot-and-polluted episodes and their synergistic relationships with urban heat islands over the Pearl River Delta region. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(17), 13443–13454.
• Li Z., Ho K.F., Chuang H.C., Yim S.H.L.* (2021). Development and intercity transferability of land-use regression models for predicting ambient PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and O3 concentrations in northern Taiwan. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21, 5063–5078, 2021
• YIM S.H.L.* (2020). Development of a 3D Real-Time Atmospheric Monitoring System (3DREAMS) Using Doppler LiDARs and Applications for Long-Term Analysis and Hot-and-Polluted Episodes. Remote Sensing 12 (6), 1036.
• Li Z., Yim S.H.L.*, Ho K.F. (2020). High temporal resolution prediction of street-level PM2.5 and NOx concentrations using machine learning approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, 268, 121975.
• Wang M.Y., Yim S.H.L.*, Dong G.H., Ho K.F., Wong D.C. (2020). Mapping ozone source-receptor relationship and apportioning the health impact in the Pearl River Delta region using adjoint sensitivity analysis. Atmospheric Environment, 222, 117026.
• Liu Z., Ming Y., Zhao C., Lau N.C., Guo J., Bollasina M., Yim S.H.L.* (2020). Contribution of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols to a record-breaking torrential rainfall event in Guangdong Province, China. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20, 223–241.
• Yim S.H.L.*, Wang M.Y., Gu Y., Yang Y., Dong G.H., Li Q. (2019). Effect of Urbanization on Ozone and Resultant Health Effects in the Pearl River Delta Region of China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(21), 11568–11579.
• Ning G., Yim S.H.L.*, Wang S.*, Duan B., Nie C., Yang X., Wang J., Shang K. (2019). Synergistic effects of synoptic weather patterns and topography on air quality: a case of the Sichuan Basin of China. Climate dynamics, 53, 6729–6744.
• Liu Z., Ming Y., Wang L., Bollasina M., Luo M., Lau N.C.*, Yim S.H.L.* (2019). A Model Investigation of Aerosol-Induced Changes in the East Asian Winter Monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 10186–10195.
• Yim S.H.L.*, Gu Y., Shapiro M., Stephens B. (2019). Air quality and acid deposition impacts of local emissions and transboundary air pollution in Japan and South Korea. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 13309–13323.
• Wang M.Y., Yim S.H.L.*, Wong D.C., Ho K.F. (2019). Source contributions of surface ozone in China using an adjoint sensitivity analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 662, 385–392.
• Yim S.H.L.*, Hou X., Guo J., Yang Y. (2019). Contribution of local emissions and transboundary air pollution to air quality in Hong Kong during El Niño-Southern Oscillation and heatwaves. Atmospheric Research, 218, 50–58.
• Hou X., Chan C.K., Dong G.H., Yim S.H.L.* (2019). Impacts of transboundary air pollution and local emissions on PM2.5 pollution in the Pearl River Delta region of China and the public health, and the policy implications. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 034005.
• Gu Y., Wong T.W., Law S.C.K., Dong G.H., Ho K.F., Yang Y., Yim S.H.L.* (2018). Impacts of Sectoral Emissions in China and the Implications: Air Quality, Public Health, Crop Production, and Economic Costs. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 084008.
• Liu Z., Yim S.H.L.*, Wang C., Lau N.C. (2018). The impact of the aerosol direct radiative forcing on deep convection and air quality in the Pearl River Delta region. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(9), 4410–4418.
• Gu Y. and Yim S.H.L.* (2016). The air quality and health impacts of domestic trans-boundary pollution in various regions of China. Environment International, 97, 117–124.