Wendy Yang (born 1980) is a professor of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she works on soil biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology.
She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2003, with a degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy.
She then moved to the University of California Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in 2010.
[4] She received a NSF grant to pursue this work in 2018,[5] as part of a larger collaboration with scientists from Georgia Tech and the University of Tennessee Knoxville to understand the role microbes have in nitrous oxide emissions from soil.
[6] Yang's most notable publications include her research on more precise methods for measuring nitrogen fluxes from terrestrial ecosystems, as it is often difficult to tell the amount of N2 gas released from soil due to the concentration of N2 gas already existing abundantly in the atmosphere.