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Yanhe Zhou

Research Interests

• Hydrology
• Surface runoff modeling
• Contaminants transport
• Bacterial overland transport modeling

Yanhe’s research field is hydrology, focusing on faecal contamination overland transport. His project is on BACTO-TRANS: Upscaling bacterial overland transport (BOT) - a multiparametric approach. The project aims to develop new bacterial overland transport - BOT models that will enable reliable predictions of where (bacterial) pathogens come from, how they move through the environment, and where they go. The project takes a holistic, quantitative approach to transfer BOT model parameters to large scales. In addition to fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) analysis by culture- and qPCR-based methods, host-associated microbial source tracking (MST) markers will be analyzed for the first time for BOT models. Furthermore, the influence of physicochemical, environmental and ageing effects on quantitative BOT processes will be determined and may be extended to viruses and protozoa in the future.
 

Key Facts

Yanhe obtained a bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China. Then he obtained a Master's degree in Environmental Science at Halmstad University, Sweden. After that, he continued to finish a Master's degree in Water Engineering at Uppsala University, Sweden. His master’s thesis focused on modeling the impact of climate and socio-economic changes on nutrient dynamics in the catchment of Lake Vomb. After finishing his master's, Yanhe joined the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, TU Wien as a project assistant and pursuing his PhD.