Biography
Dr. Heyang Yuan joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University as an assistant professor in August 2019. Dr. Yuan received a BS degree at Tongji University in China, a MS degree at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering with Dr. Zhen (Jason) He at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining the Temple University, Dr. Yuan worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Yuan leads the BioNex Laboratory at Temple University. His research interests focus on integrating engineering, microbiology and electrochemistry to address the grand challenges at the nexus of water, energy and health.
Labs: The BioNex Laboratory
Research Interests
- Develop biotechnologies for simultaneous wastewater treatment, desalination, bioenergy production and resource recovery
- Understanding and modeling microbial communities and functional dynamics in engineered biological systems
- Fate and removal of emerging biological contaminants such as antibiotic resistance genes in bioreactors
- Material-microbe interactions
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
CEE 2711 | Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology | Undergraduate |
CEE 2712 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | Undergraduate |
CEE 3711 | Environmental Engineering | Undergraduate |
CEE 3715 | Microbiological Principles of Environmental Engineering | Undergraduate |
CEE 4531 | Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprinting | Undergraduate |
CEE 4742 | Professional Issues II | Undergraduate |
CEE 5794 | Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Cheng, Z., Yao, S., & Yuan, H. (2021). Linking population dynamics to microbial kinetics for hybrid modeling of bioelectrochemical systems. Water Res, 202, 117418. England. 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117418