Boya ZHANG

E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (+1)734-882-9163

EDUCATION
School of Public Health, University of Michigan Sept 2019 – Present
 Doctoral pre-candidate in Epidemiologic Science
Department of Environment Science and Engineering, Peking University (PKU) Sept 2016 – Jul 2019
 Master of Science in Environmental Science; Major GPA: 3.8/4.0 (ranking: 2 out of 42 students)
 Main Courses: Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Exposure Science, Environmental Toxicology, Applied
Regression Analysis, Applied Statistics, Management and Analysis of Aerosol Measurement Data, Survival Analysis
Atmospheric Chemistry, etc.
School of Public Health, PKU Sept 2011 – Jul 2016
 Bachelor of Medicine in Preventive Medicine; GPA: 3.55/4.0 (ranking: 12 out of 84 students)
 Main Courses: Organic Chemistry, General Biology, Biochemistry, General Physics, Physiology, Pathology,
Pharmacology, Internal Medicine, Foundations for Toxicology, Epidemiology, Health Statistics. Environmental Health,
Occupational Health, etc.
Department of Sociology, PKU Sept 2012 – Jul 2016
 Bachelor of Laws in Sociology; GPA: 3.52/4.0
 Main Courses: Social Psychology, Social Statistics, Methods of the Social survey and Social Research, Analytical
Techniques of Data, Introduction to Social Work, Social Demography, etc.
Queensland University of Technology, Australia Aug 2013 – Sept 2013
 Participated courses including intensive English tuition focusing on medical language and terminology, case-based
learning program focusing on Health Science and made a presentation about Comparison of Medicare and policy
between China and Australia.
 Studied Medicare services for Aboriginal people in Australia and compared it with Medicare services in Tibet, China
and completed a presentation based on the comparisons.

PUBLICATIONS (In English)

 Zhang B, Li G, Ma Y, et al., Projection of temperature-related mortality due to cardiovascular disease in Beijing under
different climate change, population, and adaptation scenarios [J]. Environmental Research, 2018, 162:152.
 Zhang B, Zhao B, Xu C el al., Emission inventory and provincial distribution of short-chain chlorinated paraffin in
China. Science of the Total Environment, 2017, 581-582:582.
 Zhang B, Zhao B, Yu M, et al., Emission inventory and environmental distribution of decabromodiphenyl ether in
China. Science of the Total Environment, 2017, 599–600:1073-1081.
 Zhang B, Zhao X, Zhang J, Characteristics of peroxyacetyl nitrate pollution during a 2015 winter haze episode in
Beijing, 2019, 244:379-387.
 Zhang B, Zhao B, Zuo P, et al., Influencing factors and prediction of ambient Peroxyacetyl nitrate concentration in
Beijing, China. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jes.2018.07.011

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, PKU Sep 2016 – Present
Role: Research Assistant; Supervisor: Prof. Mei ZHENG
Project 1: National Natural Science Foundation International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Project, Online
Source Analysis Study: Analysis of Beijing Atmospheric Fine Particles Source Based on Receptor Model
 Implemented high-time resolved instruments, including In-situ Gas and Aerosol Composition (IGAC) and Xact
monitoring the water-soluble inorganic ions and trace elements (TEs) in PM2.5, respectively at Peking University in
Beijing for three months.
 Compared the performance of IGAC and Xact using corresponding offline filter-based measurement by analyzing
components of 8 ions and 13 TEs.
 Compared two PMF (Positive Matrix Factorization) source apportionment results using online and offline monitoring
data respectively, investigating whether PMF source apportionment results would be influenced by different monitoring
methods.
 Concluded that most online data have good correlations with offline data. And for PMF results, while most online data
have good correlations with offline data, the details of PMF-source apportionment results still can be influenced by
different monitoring methods.
Project 2: Pathophysiology and intervention study of respiratory injury caused by fine particulate matter, 973 Project
funded by Ministry of science and technology of the PRC (Assistant role)
 This panel study designed to assess the short-term respiratory health effects of ambient air pollution in Beijing, China.
60 elder adults who have been diagnosed as COPD and 60 healthy adults were recruited from a community hospital site.
 Allocating paper-based survey, contacting study participation, collecting survey, inputting and compile pre-survey data.
  Measured lung function for every subjects under the instruction of professional physicians.
 Measured the concentration of organic carbon, element carbon and trace elements in PM 2.5 with online OC/EC and Xact
instruments
 Completed section of the interim report for this project, mainly assess the quality of online monitoring data

Project 3: AIRLESS, A joint UK-China programme funded by NERC-MRC-NSFC-Newton Fund (Main part of my
Master's dissertation Thesis)
 The AIRLESS study is a panel study designed to assess effects of air pollutions on cardiopulmonary disease in urban
(Peking University Site) and peri-urban (Pinggu district) residents in Beijing. Two panel each comprising 120 non-
smoking healthy adults were recruited from the two monitoring sites.
 Measured FeNO (fraction of exhaled nitric oxide) using a portable NIOXMINO® and collected EBC (exhaled breath
condensate) using an RTube™ sampling device.
 Measured BC (black carbon) concentration and mixing states with Aethalometer and single particle aerosol mass
spectrometer (SPAMS).
 Performed analysis using linear regression models investigating associations between BC concentration, size
distribution, mixing states and source apportionment results and health indicators such as cardiovascular index, oxidative
stress, endothelial and lung function.
 Investigated if any specific source of PM2.5 (e.g. Traffic source, biomass source, coal-burning source) is more
significantly associated with health outcomes（variation in FeNO, blood pressure, etc.） than others.

State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, PKU Sep 2014 – Present
Research Assistant, Supervisor: Prof. Jianxin HU and Jianbo ZHANG
State Key R & D Program, Impact of Reactive Organic Compounds on Air Quality and Environmental Benefits (grant
number 2016YFC0202200)
 Applied a bottom-up method to construct a historical emissions inventory and the provincial distribution of short-chain
chlorinated paraffin (SCCPs) and decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) in China based on research in relevant economic
sectors.
 Identified major consumer sectors and calculated the annual national emissions inventory of SCCPs and decaBDE
 Constructed a provincial distribution of SCCPs and decaBDE to identify high emission areas in China.
 Completed a study report concluding that the largest emission source was from metalworking fluids, and SCCPs emissions
were mainly concentrated in the eastern, more economically developed regions, such as Jiangsu Province.

Long term variation of ambient peroxyacyl nitrate concentration and regional transportation
 Processed the hourly, daily and monthly monitoring data of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) and other conventional parameters
and revealed the correlation between different parameters by applying linear regression.
 Implemented back-propagation (BP) artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR) methods to
predict the hourly average PAN concentrations in Beijing, 2014.
 Examined the relationships between concentrations of PAN and other pollutants (e.g., ozone [O3] and PM2.5) during a
winter haze episode.
 Concluded that the continuous cumulative increase in PAN concentrations was the result of a combination of
photochemical production during the daytime and production based on free radical chemical reactions during the nighttime.

School of Public Health, PKU Jul 2015 – Aug 2016

Research Assistant, Supervisor: Prof. Xiaochuan PAN and Guoxing LI
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Study on the effect of fine particle exposure level on acute death in
population based on satellite remote sensing data (Grant no. 81372950). (Bachelor’s dissertation Thesis)
 Projected temperature-related mortality attributed by cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Beijing during 2050 and 2070.
 Applied 19 global circulation models (GCMs), 3 representative concentration pathways (RCPs), 3 socioeconomic
pathways, together with generalized linear models and distributed lag non-linear models to project future temperature-
related CVD mortality.
 Based on our study results, temperature-related CVD mortality rate in Beijing is projected to increase by 3.5–10.2% under
different RCP scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP8.5) compared with that during the baseline period (2007-2009). The
annual rate of increase in temperature-related CVD deaths was up to fivefold greater than that under no-population-change
scenarios and adaptation to climate change may enhance rather than ameliorate the health effect of climate change.

WORK EXPERIENCES

Medical Student Hospital Intern, Beijing Shijitan Hospital Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
 Participated in clinical training and participate in the rotation in the departments of (1) Internal Medicine (3 months) (2)
Surgery (2 months) (3) Pediatrics (1 month) (4) Infectious Diseases (1 month) (5) Neurology (1 month).
 Attended morning departmental case reports and unusual clinical cases discussion
 Successfully passed all “Final State Exams” at the end of each rotation, and gained the high scores for each department
 training sections.
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Research Assistant, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Jul 2015 –Aug 2015
 Performed technical assistance and administrative support for the monitoring and evaluation of Student Nutrition
Programs, which aimed to investigate the nutrition status of high school students in Beijing.
 Conducted and analysed hypertension community survey over 4 district in Beijing (Screening for high blood pressure
and investigated hypertensive patients' compliance with medical orders);
 Assisted in collecting the tap water samples in Haidian district in Beiing and prepared the sample for the further test in
order to detect harmful microbes and chemicals.

Teaching Assistant, Environmental Exposure Science: External Exposure Feb 2017 –June 2017
 Assisted teacher to prepare slides for presentations in class
 Held group discussion in the class
 Assisted teacher grading examinations or papers

HONORS AND AWARDS

 The Hailiang Scholarship (for top 1 best academic performed student in the department) 2017 – 2018
 Student Paper Award (The 9th International Conference on and Environmental Science & Technology) 2017 – 2018
 PKU Pacemaker to Merit Student 2016 – 2017
 PKU May 4th (anniversary of the university) Scholarship 2016 – 2017
 PKU Exceptional Award for Academic Innovation 2016 – 2017
 PKU Merit Student 2016 – 2017
 The Third Prize in PKU “College students’ innovative experimental program” 2013 – 2014
 The Third Prize in PKUHSC “Future medical star” 2013 – 2014
 PKU Exceptional Award for Academic Innovation (only undergraduate students in my department) 2013 – 2014
 The Third Prize scholarship (for top 15% best academic performed student in the department) 2013 – 2014
 The Second Prize scholarship（for top 10% best academic performed student in the department） 2012 – 2013

EXTRA CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES

Vice-Chairman, Student’s Union, School of Public Health, Peking University Sep 2012 – Nov 2014
 Organized the team building activities such as new members recruitment and trainings.
 Held a series of activities to promote AIDS prevention, such as lectures, quiz, and treasure hunt.
Volunteer, Third Hospital, Peking University Mar 2012 – Nov 2014
 Organized communicative activities for the volunteer program.
 Guided patients to find treatment and diagnosis departments; provided moral support and encouragements for patients’
families in the waiting room area.
 Assisted volunteer program supervisors with with unit programming, preparing materials for special events and

SKILLS AND OTHERS

 Computer Skills:
Language: C language, R language (statistical analysis skills)
Matlab, SAS, SPSS (working professional level)
 Environmental Research Related Software: Igor, YADDA for SPAMS, PMF and CMB for source apportionment (With
good working knowledge)

Hobbies
 Traveling, Hiking, Water Sports, Cooking, Watching Movies, Lego building