Yang Ding was a IARU intern at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing from January 2019 to March 2019.

Yang Ding is a master student at Peking university studying environment geochemistry, focusing on water treatment. She has published three academic articles on microbial treatment of pollution. She is an environmental activist and a volunteer of many environmentally friendly NGOs. In her free time, Yang enjoys violin, Jazz, swimming, and hiking.