Overview
Background
Baojie is a (Full) Professor of Urban Climate and Sustainable Built Environment with the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Chongqing University, China.
Email: baojie.he@uq.edu.au; baojie.he@cqu.edu.cn
He is currently leading the Centre for Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Cities with the focus on Heat-Resilient and Low-Carbon Urban Planning and Design. Baojie has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in high-ranking journals and delivered more than 100 invited talks in reputable conferences/seminars. Baojie has a SCOPUS H-index of 57 (Scopus). Baojie has been involved in several large research projects on urban climate and built environment in China and Australia. Baojie has been invited to act as Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors of several international reputuable journals. Baojie received the received the Most Cited Chinese Researchers Title in 2024 and 2025, Highly Cited Researcher Title (Clarivate) in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, the Sustainability Young Investigator Award in 2022, the Green Talents Award (Germany) in 2021, and National Scholarship for Outstanding Study Abroad Students (China) in 2019. Baojie was ranked as one of the Top 2% Scientists by the Mendeley from 2020 onwards.
Availability
- Professor Bao-jie HE is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Architecture, University of New South Wales
Research interests
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Heat-resilient urban planning and design
My research aims to build a systematic urban heat regulation and control target and performance assessment system upon mitigation-adaptation synergies, construct a key technology system of mitigation-adaptation synergies, and develop a smart decision support system serving the mitigation-adaptation synergies for heat-resilient infrastructure planning and design.
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Performance-based design of residential blocks for the co-benefits of building energy efficiency and outdoor thermal comfort improvement
Xu, Shen, Wang, Siyao, Li, Gaomei, Zhou, Haizhu, Meng, Chong, Qin, Yuchen and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Performance-based design of residential blocks for the co-benefits of building energy efficiency and outdoor thermal comfort improvement. Building and Environment, 264 111926. doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111926
2024
Journal Article
Responses of climatic drought to vegetation cover dynamics: a case study in Yunnan, China
Wan, Yangtao, Han, Han, Mao, Yao and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Responses of climatic drought to vegetation cover dynamics: a case study in Yunnan, China. Forests, 15 (10) 1689, 1689. doi: 10.3390/f15101689
2024
Journal Article
Spatial and socioeconomic heterogeneity of heat-related perception, awareness, knowledge and impacts for unbiased heat action plans
He, Bao-Jie (2024). Spatial and socioeconomic heterogeneity of heat-related perception, awareness, knowledge and impacts for unbiased heat action plans. Journal of Cleaner Production, 469 143164, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143164
2024
Journal Article
Carbon surplus or carbon deficit under land use transformation in China?
Li, Shuoshuo, Liu, Yaobin, Wei, Guoen, Bi, Mo and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Carbon surplus or carbon deficit under land use transformation in China?. Land Use Policy, 143 107218, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107218
2024
Journal Article
Digital economy exhibits varying degrees of mitigation of air pollution in China: total cities-economic subdivisions-urban agglomerations
Wei, Guoen, Yang, Yiting, Li, Ruzi, Liu, Yaobin and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Digital economy exhibits varying degrees of mitigation of air pollution in China: total cities-economic subdivisions-urban agglomerations. iScience, 27 (6) 110091, 110091. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110091
2024
Journal Article
Assessment of economic, environmental, and technological sustainability of rural sanitation and toilet infrastructure and decision support model for improvement
Wu, Simei and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Assessment of economic, environmental, and technological sustainability of rural sanitation and toilet infrastructure and decision support model for improvement. Sustainability, 16 (11) 4384, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/su16114384
2024
Journal Article
Highly heterogeneous heat‐related health impacts in China and implications for sustainable urban heat governance
Li, Xinqin, Tang, Junqing and He, Bao‐Jie (2024). Highly heterogeneous heat‐related health impacts in China and implications for sustainable urban heat governance. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 8 (5) 2300538, 1-20. doi: 10.1002/adsu.202300538
2024
Journal Article
Synergistic impacts of built-up characteristics and background climate on urban vegetation phenology: Evidence from Beijing, China
Fu, Xuecheng and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Synergistic impacts of built-up characteristics and background climate on urban vegetation phenology: Evidence from Beijing, China. Forests, 15 (4) 728, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/f15040728
2024
Journal Article
Planning for heat-resilient educational precincts: framework formulation, cooling infrastructure selection and walkable routes determination
Xiong, Ke and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Planning for heat-resilient educational precincts: framework formulation, cooling infrastructure selection and walkable routes determination. Sustainable Cities and Society, 101 105183. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2024.105183
2024
Journal Article
Innovate green building for urban heat mitigation and adaptation
He, Bao-Jie (2024). Innovate green building for urban heat mitigation and adaptation. PLOS Climate, 3 (2) e0000352, 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000352
2024
Journal Article
Average surface wind pressure surrounding tall buildings with cruciform shapes
Yan, Li and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Average surface wind pressure surrounding tall buildings with cruciform shapes. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 19, 1814-1828. doi: 10.1093/ijlct/ctae138
2024
Conference Publication
Review of urban water thermal environment cooling
Qiu, Y. F.F. and He, B. J. (2024). Review of urban water thermal environment cooling. Institute of Physics. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1363/1/012073
2024
Journal Article
Characterization and microbial mechanism of pollutant removal from stormwater runoff in the composite filler bioretention system
Guo, Kaiwen, Wang, Hairuo, Mu, Teng, Chen, Jiaxuan, Luo, Hui and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Characterization and microbial mechanism of pollutant removal from stormwater runoff in the composite filler bioretention system. Water Reuse, 14 (1), 95-114. doi: 10.2166/wrd.2024.145
2024
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Experimental investigation of the thermal usability of outdoor environments in rideability, walkability, entertainmentability, exercisability and workability for urban heat mitigation, adaptation and governance
Huang, Boze, Dong, Xin, Tian, Yu, Yin, Mingqiang, Qiu, Yufeifei and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Experimental investigation of the thermal usability of outdoor environments in rideability, walkability, entertainmentability, exercisability and workability for urban heat mitigation, adaptation and governance. Natural Hazards, 120 (2), 2005-2034. doi: 10.1007/s11069-023-06266-6
2024
Conference Publication
A review of classified regional ventilation strategies based on urban morphology
Gao, Z. and He, B. J. (2024). A review of classified regional ventilation strategies based on urban morphology. Institute of Physics. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1363/1/012075
2024
Conference Publication
Evaluating the potential of green roofs in the context of decarbonization of the built environment
Liu, Y. L. and He, B. J. (2024). Evaluating the potential of green roofs in the context of decarbonization of the built environment. Institute of Physics. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1363/1/012035
2024
Conference Publication
Actions for urban climate change adaptation
He, Bao-Jie, Jupesta, Joni, Cirella, Giuseppe T. and Pignatta, Gloria (2024). Actions for urban climate change adaptation. 3rd CCES Conference, Chongqing, China, 17 - 18 September 2023. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-65088-8_1
2024
Journal Article
Capability of LCZ scheme to differentiate urban thermal environments in five megacities of China: implications for integrating LCZ system into heat–resilient planning and design
He, Bao-Jie, Fu, Xuecheng, Zhao, Ziqi, Chen, Pengxin, Sharifi, Ayyoob and Li, Hong (2024). Capability of LCZ scheme to differentiate urban thermal environments in five megacities of China: implications for integrating LCZ system into heat–resilient planning and design. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 17, 18800-18817. doi: 10.1109/jstars.2024.3469241
2024
Journal Article
Assessment of vertical cooling performance of trees over different surface covers
Wang, Wei and He, Bao-Jie (2024). Assessment of vertical cooling performance of trees over different surface covers. Journal of Thermal Biology, 119 103779, 103779. doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2023.103779
2023
Journal Article
Evaluating and improving the adaptability of commonly used indices for predicting outdoor thermal sensation in hot and humid residential areas of China
Li, Kunming, Liu, Xiao, Zhang, Hua, Ma, Jian and He, Bao-Jie (2023). Evaluating and improving the adaptability of commonly used indices for predicting outdoor thermal sensation in hot and humid residential areas of China. Developments in the Built Environment, 16 100278, 100278. doi: 10.1016/j.dibe.2023.100278
Supervision
Availability
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Available projects
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Identification and planning of walkable routes for urban heat adaptation
This project focuses on urban slow-moving path system. The morphological characteristics of slow-moving spaces and high-temperature environmental characteristics are analyzed, and the health and safety impacts of high temperatures are evaluated in combination with population characteristics, activity types, and health indicators, in order to explore the response mechanism of suitable slow-moving paths to the characteristics of slow-moving spaces (spatial characteristics, adaptation facilities) and high-temperature impacts. This project is expected to accurately predict and evaluate the impact of high temperatures in cities, deliver high-temperature health warning signals, and combine the heat tolerance of the population to provide real-time feedback and decision-making for residents' healthy travel paths.
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Time hysteresis and dynamic evolution of instantaneous heat stress of human bodies
This project explores the mechanism of thermal adaptation and thermal fatigue of the body to fluctuating heat stress stimulation, determines the threshold of instantaneous heat tolerance and cumulative heat tolerance of the body, explores the law of instantaneous heat stress hysteresis and its dynamic evolution law of superposition, stability and offset, and establishes the model of instantaneous and cumulative heat stress of the body to provide scientific support for travel route selection and space optimization design.
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Ventilation-induced heat island mitigation and the controls in local-scale urban areas based on the local ventilation zone method
This project is designated to classify complex local spaces based on the abstraction, parameterization, and standardization of the local ventilation zone (LVZ) method to reduce the difficulty and workload of local ventilation cooling studies. In particular, this project improves the LVZ standardized index system , and develops an effective and universal LVZ identification method. Furthermore, this project uses three-dimensional spatial form measurement and information mining technology to identify the LVZs. Afterwards, based on on-site microclimate monitoring and scenario simulation, this project systematically explores the "inter -category" and "intra-category" ventilation performance and heat island effect variations in/among various LVZs and, reveals local ventilation cooling mechanism.
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