**About the Editors**

**Bao-Jie He** is a research professor of urban climate and built environment at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, China. Prior to Chongqing University, Bao-Jie He was a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia. Bao-Jie works for Cool Cities and Communities and Net Zero Carbon Built Environment. Bao-Jie has strong academic capability, with about 80 peer-reviewed papers published in high-ranking journals and oral presentations given at reputable conferences. Bao-Jie acts as Topic Editor-in-Chief, Leading Guest Editor, Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, Conference Chair, Sessional Chair and on the Scientific Committee of a variety of international journals and conferences. Dr. He received the Green Talents Award (Germany) in 2021 and the National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-Funded Foreign Students (China) in 2019. Dr. He was ranked as one of the top 100,000 global scientists (both single-year and career top 2%) by Mendeley, 2021.

**Ayyoob Sharifi** is with the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. He also has a cross-appointment at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering. Ayyoob's research is mainly at the interface of urbanism and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He actively contributes to global change research programs, such as Future Earth, and is currently serving as a lead author for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Before joining Hiroshima University, he was the Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP)—a Future Earth core project—leading the urban flagship activity of the project, which is focused on conducting cutting-edge research to support climate change mitigation and adaptation in cities.

**Chi Feng** received his joint PhD training in South China University of Technology (China) and KU Leuven (Belgium). He is now a research professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University (China), and is leading a research group of more than 10 members. His research topics cover the coupled heat and moisture transfer in porous building materials as well as the hygrothermal performance of building envelopes and built environments. He has led eight international and national research projects, including a China–Europe round robin campaign on material property determination (nine countries participated), the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program of China. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers at home and abroad. He has been drafting two Chinese standards and participating in another nine international/national ones.

**Jun Yang** is working at the Urban Climate and Human Settlements Lab, Northeastern University (Shenyang China). His research expertise involves urban climate zones, urban ecology, urban human settlements and sustainability. As PI or Co-PI, he has been involved in 50 research projects, receiving a total of 15 million in RMB from EGOV.CN (e.g., NFC, MOST and MOE) since 2002. He has authored and co-authored more than 160 papers and book chapters and published more than 50 English papers as well as more than 110 Chinese papers in academic journals. He is now an Associate Editor of *SN Social Sciences* and the *International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology*, on the Editorial Board of *PLOS One*, *PLOS Climate* and *Frontiers in Built Environment*, the Lead Guest Editor of *Complexity* and a Guest Editor of the *IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing*.
