**About the Editors**

#### **Baojie He**

Dr. Baojie He is a Research Professor of Urban Climate and Built Environment at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, China. Prior to joining Chongqing University, Baojie He was a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia. Baojie is working on the Cool Cities and Communities and Net Zero Carbon Built Environment project. Baojie has strong academic capability and has published around 80 peer-reviewed papers in high-ranking journals and given oral presentations at reputable conferences. Baojie acts as the Topic Editor-in-Chief, Leading Guest Editor, Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, Conference Chair, Sessional Chair, and Scientific Committee of a variety of international journals and conferences. Dr. He received the Young Investigator Award (MDPI Sustainability) in 2022, Green Talents Award (Germany) in 2021 and National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-Funded Foreign Students (China) in 2019. Dr. He was ranked as one of the 100,000 global scientists (both single-year and career top 2%) by the Mendeley, 2021.

#### **Ayyoob Sharifi**

Prof. Dr. Ayyoob Sharifi works at 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 climate change research programs such as the 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**

Prof. 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 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 the 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 is drafting two Chinese standards and participating in another nine international/national ones.

#### **Jun Yang**

Prof. Dr. 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 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 and more than 110 Chinese papers in academic journals. He is now the Associate Editor of the *Social Sciences* section of the *International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology*, sits on the Editorial Board of *PLOS One*, *PLOS Climate*, and *Frontiers in Built Environment*, is a Lead Guest Editor of *Complexity*, and a Guest Editor of *IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing*.
