Dr Jingxia Wang

I have been a lecturer at USP since 2022. Prior to this, I worked as a full-time postdoc in the Institute of Geography at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany. During the period 2020-2022, I taught modules such as Urban Green Infrastructure Planning I: Concepts and Cases and Urban Green Infrastructure Planning II: Advances and Methods for M.Sc. students in physical geography and geomatics. I got my Ph.D. degree (Dr.rer.nat.) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany in October 2020 on the topic of urban green infrastructure planning and development (2016-2020). My doctoral project has been authorized by TUM and certified by the HIGRADE doctoral program with distinction. I had worked for the Integrated Project – Urban Transformations at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig Germany from 2015-2020.

Within a very strong focus on urban studies, my interdisciplinary research unites two strands of significant domains: urban green infrastructure planning and environmental analysis, as well as research for sustainability transformations. Draw from concepts in urban ecology and spatial planning, as well as methods in computational landscape ecology, GIS, and remote sensing, I have undertaken studies on land use planning and management and strategic landscape planning for German (e.g. Ruhr metropolitan regions and Leipzig) and Chinese cities for several years, e.g. Beijing (2012), Inner Mongolia (2013-2015), and Tianjin (2013), Kunming (since 2019), and Lijiang (2015-2021). I have worked on several projects for urban green infrastructure planning collaborating with EU and Chinese universities and institutions since 2013.