Dr. Wenjian Pan

Educational Experience / Work Experience

2022.10 – Present: Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China

2019.11 – 2022.09: Senior Research Assistant, Department of Architecture & Urban Ecologies Design Lab, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong SAR, China

2015.01 - 2019.12: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Architecture (Urban Renewal & Sustainability), Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong SAR, China

2012.08 - 2014.11: Architectural Designer, United Design Group Co. Ltd. Shanghai Headquarters, Shanghai, China

2007.09 - 2012.06: Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng), Department of Architecture, East China Jiaotong University (ECJTU), China

Areas of Expertise

• Urban Transformation and Environmental Evaluation (High-density Metropolises, Informal Settlements, Urban Villages)
• Mixed-use and Open Spaces and Adaptive Architectural Systems
• Social Transitional Housing and Strategies for Eco-Rehabilitation
• Community Design and Co-Creation
• Low Carbon City and Blue-Green Infrastructure
• Nature-based Solutions

Honors and Titles

• 2023: Best Researcher Award (Urban Renewal & Community Co-Creation), 6th Edition of International Research Awards on Network Science and Graph Analytics (NSGA)
• 2023: Viser Expert, Viser Technology Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
• 2023: Editorial Board Member, Social Sciences & Humanities Open (ISSN: 2590-2911), Elsevier
• 2022: Guest Editor, Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism (ISSN: 2717-5626), ACCSCIENCE PUBLISHING
• 2015: Hong Kong University Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS)
• 2010: National Scholarship (Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China)
• 2011: Outstanding College Student of Jiangxi Civil Engineering and Architecture Society
• 2011: Excellent Work Prize of National College Student Architecture Design Competition (Awarded by Architectural Society of China)

Paper Publications (Selected)

• Pan, W. J.* (2024). From “Human-centered” to “System-oriented”: Eco-Cultural Legacy of Feng Shui and Scientific Principles for Establishing Modern Resilient Cities. In PK Joshi, KS Rao, Rahul Bhadouria, Sachchidanand Tripathi, and Rishikesh Singh (Eds.) Blue-Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Settlements: Implications for Developing Countries under Changing Climate, Springer Nature.
• Pan, W. J.* (2023). Self-adaptive hybrid urban morphologies community (HUMC): Its shared environment and soft intervention for sustainable urban governance. Building and Environment, 236, 110251.
• Pan, W. J.* and Du, J. (2022). Effects of Neighbourhood Morphological Characteristics on Outdoor Daylight and Insights for Sustainable Urban Design. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 21(2), 342-367.
• Pan, W. J.* (2021). What type of mixed-use and open? A critical environmental analysis of three neighborhood types in China and insights for sustainable urban planning. Landscape and Urban Planning, 216, 104221.
• Pan, W. J.* and Du, J. (2021). Towards sustainable urban transition: A critical review of strategies and policies of urban village renewal in Shenzhen. Land Use Policy, 111, 105744.
• Pan, W. J.* and Du, J. (2021). Impacts of urban morphological characteristics on nocturnal outdoor lighting environment in cities: An empirical investigation in Shenzhen. Building and Environment, 192, 107587.
• Pan, W. J.* and Du, J. (2020). Towards Sustainable Urban Redevelopment: Urban design informed by morphological patterns and ecologies of informal settlements. In Pramit Verma, Pardeep Singh, Rishikesh Singh, and A. S. Raghubanshi (Eds.) Urban Ecology: Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems, Cambridge, MA: Elsevier Inc, 377-411.
• Pan, W. J.* and Du, J. (2018). The Environmental Consequences of “Urban Renewal”: Lessons from Two Reconstructed Urban Villages in inner-city Shenzhen. Proceedings of The 34th Annual International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA 2018), Volume 3, 1094-1096.
• Pan, W. J.* and Du, J. (2017). Density and Environmental Performance: Analysing Diverse Characteristics of Thermal Environment in Urban Villages, Shenzhen. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA 2017), Volume II, 1829-1836.
• Du, J.*, Jones, P., Tang, D., Valin, I., Echeverri, N., Pan, W. J., Wan, S., Chiu, I., and Zhang, J. J. (2015). Low Carbon City - A Designer’s Manual, Low Carbon Principles and Methods. In SEEKING A PATH TO FUTURE LOW CARBON CITIES, Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press, 170-179.