Prof. Jiang Li is the deputy head, an associate professor, and a doctoral supervisor at the Department of Environmental Design, School of Architecture and Art, Central South University. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Architecture and a PhD in Ecology and Environment, and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. He is the Deputy Director of the Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon and Healthy Buildings and the Deputy Director of the Human Settlements Research Center at Central South University. His current research focuses on high-quality development of human settlements through multidisciplinary collaboration. He has published over 40 academic papers, including more than 10 as corresponding author or first author. He has presided over one National Natural Science Foundation of China project, one provincial key international cooperation project, and one provincial natural science foundation project. He has participated in and undertaken more than 10 National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education, and provincial natural science foundations.