Qiguan Shu has an educational background in landscape architecture. During his studies, he developed his skills in computational design, living architecture design and programming. His master's thesis dealt with topological skeleton abstraction from photogrammetric point clouds for jointed aerial root structures by voxel thinning method. He is now working interdisciplinarily in the field of digital tools for urban green systems, quantitative structural models for trees and functional-structural tree models. Qiguan Shu is now carrying out a research project on Urban Green System 4.0, funded by DFG, for his PhD study at the Technical University of Munich.