Heejun Chang serves as associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences since July 2021. He joined PSU in 2001 as an assistant professor after obtaining a Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University and is currently a professor of Geography. He oversees college-wide research initiatives and collaborations and graduate programs, including graduate enrollment and curricular inquires.
He has led transdisciplinary water research from a coupled natural and human system lens across the Pacific in studying future climate change impacts on water quantity and quality, flood and drought hazards, and water-related ecosystem services using spatial statistics, social surveys, and process-based modeling. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts with over 8,000 citations by Google Scholar.