Duan Yifan is a lecturer with an intermediate professional title and holds a Ph.D. She earned her Bachelor's degree in 2014, Master's degree in 2017, and Doctoral degree in 2022 from Northwest A&F University. She currently serves as a faculty member in the Landscape Architecture program at the School of Architecture, Chang'an University. As the first author, she has published five SCI-indexed articles and five articles in Chinese publications. Her research focuses on plant landscape design, therapeutic landscape design, the impact of plants and landscape design on human health and well-being, and health-promoting landscape design, with a particular emphasis on the therapeutic design of urban greenways and the therapeutic potential of urban residual gray spaces.