Senior Lecturer in Hydrology within the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research at UEA. She has extensive research experience in hydrological modelling, uncertainty assessment, extreme value statistics, flood forecasting, and water quality modelling. Her work has been funded by NERC, BEIS, RCUK, ESRC, DEFRA, China 985 Programme (with Fudan University), and China Huai River Basin Public Research Programme, as well as industries including EDF Energy R&D Centre (to assess extreme rainfall using a weather pattern approach) and AON’s Impact Forecasting LLC (to develop high resolution and spatially distributed hydrological models for the Rhine and Danube basins for simulating high impact floods, respectively).
EDUCATION
2008 Dr.-Ing. Hydrology, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, 2008
2004 MSc. Water Resources Engineering & Management, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, 2004
1998 BSc. Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 1998
EXPERIENCE
9/10-Present Senior Lecturer in Hydrology, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK (9/10-7/18 Lecturer, 05/13-09/13 Maternity leave)
10/07–09/10 Research Associate, Dept of Geography, King’s College London, UK
12/01–03/05 Research Assistant (part-time), Otto-Graf-Institute, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONSULTANCIES
Robert Nicholls et al. (Y He – CoI hydrological impacts) (05/20-09/22) “Open CLimate IMpacts modelling framework (OpenCLIM)”, funded by UK NERC Climate Resilience Programme.
He Y, N Addor, Y Wang, D Goldberg (04/20-03/21) “The impact of climate change on water resources in China”, funded by UK Met Office CSSP-China programme.
He Y, D Manful (05/19-07/20) “Habitat Analysis of Hippos in the Bui Park after Completion of the Bui Hydropower Project in Ghana”, funded by UEA GCRF-QR.
Warren R, Y He, D Guan, O Andrews (02/19-01/20) “Impacts and Risk Assessment to better inform Resilience Planning (IMPRES)”, funded by NERC Climate Resilience Programme.
Warren R et al. (Y He – WP lead fluvial flooding impacts) (09/18 – 04/20) “Climate impacts between 1.5°C and 4°C of global warming”, funded by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), CR18083.
He Y (05/18 – 07/20) Pan European Flood Event Set Phase 2 “Rainfall-runoff modelling for the Danube Basin”, funded by AON’s Impact Forecasting LLC.
Corinne Le Quéré et al. (He Y – WP lead fluvial flooding impacts) (05/17 – 10/17) “The implications of global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C”, funded by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
He Y, and S Dorling, (06/16 – 06/17) Pan European Flood Event Set Phase 1 “Rainfall-runoff modelling for the Rhine Basin”, funded by AON’s Impact Forecasting LLC.
K Hiscock and Y He, (09/15 – 08/16) DEFRA funded project “Catchment Management and Water Quality’ initiative (Case Study 3, Area 2)”.
He Y, Declan Conway, Zheng Zheng and Xiaoying Yang (01/13 – 06/16) China 985 project grant “Impacts of climate change on water security in the Huai River Basin in China”, collaboration with Fudan University.
He Y, Jinyin Ye and Florian Pappenberger (01/13 – 12/15) China Huai River Basin Public Research Fund “Verification and Application of Ensemble Prediction System (EPS) in the Huai river basin”.
He Y and P Bernardara (05/13 – 09/13) UK Industrial Mathematics sKTP “UK extreme rainfall estimation based on weather pattern approach”, co-funded by EDF Energy R&D Centre in London.
He Y and K Hiscock (10/12 – 09/15) UK EPSRC PhD project studentship “Application of a climate-hydro-biogeochemical model cascade for the prediction of regional impacts of land use and management practices on water quality under climate change”.
Demeritt, D, HL Cloke, and Y He (06/11 – 05/12) UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Follow-on grant “Improving the communication and Use of Ensemble Flood Predictions”, RES-189-25-0286.
He Y and Cloke, HL (08/09 – 07/10) Proof of Concept and (01/09 – 04/09) Partnership grant Innovation China UK (ICUK) “Novel Early flood Warning and Risk Assessment System”.
Past PhD students as primary supervisor
Markus Rau
Sam Taylor
Ulysse Pasquier
Current PhD students as primary supervisor
Qianyu Zha
Nicole Forstenhaeusler
Yixin Hu