Fengbao Liu is an Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor at the School of Art, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Nanjing University and has been a visiting scholar at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research interests include urban and regional planning, urban renewal and gentrification, shrinking cities and urban transformation, urban–rural history and heritage conservation, landscape planning and design, and crime prevention through environmental design. He has led or participated in multiple research projects at various levels and published more than 20 academic papers in Chinese and international journals. He is a member of the Geographical Society of China and serves as a young editorial board member of Green Building. He was recognized among the top 5% of CNKI Highly Cited Scholars in both 2024 and 2025.