Dr Jie Yang graduated with a bachelor degree of Harbour, Waterway and Coastal Engineering in 2003 at Hohai University (China). Then she continued the PhD study at Tsinghua University (China), where she obtained her PhD degree of Hydraulic Engineering in 2010.

Her research field is coastal hydrodynamics, water environmental modeling and sediment transport. During her PhD study, she visited the University of Tokyo for one year, where she studied hydrodynamic processes of Tokyo Bay using numerical modelling. After she worked in College of Harbor, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Hohai University, she focused on the study of pollutants transport considering the absorption of sediment through both laboratory experiment and numerical modelling.

• Current-wave interaction and coastal hazards
• Pollutants transport and inter-action with sediment
• Coastal sediment transport processes and morphological change due to tide and extreme climate