Emerging Scholar

Theodore Lim

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Emerging Scholar

Theodore Lim

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
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Theodore Lim is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech. He has over ten years of experience in environmental planning-related fields, including academic and industry positions in environmental data science in agricultural technology, civil engineering design and sustainable masterplanning, and urban public health. Dr. Lim's research on urban hydrology, distributed stormwater management practices, and green infrastructure program implementation in cities has been published in top-ranked, peer-reviewed journals. His research interests also include green infrastructure planning at the regional scale, land development impacts on the hydrological cycle, and applications of data science in urban and environmental planning. Dr. Lim received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017.