Research direction: Sustainable Built Environment; Ecological Urban Environment; Intelligent Built Environment Monitoring and Control

Dr. Shi-Jie Cao is a full Professor and the director of Center for Sustainable Built Environment at School of Architecture, Southeast University; a Visiting Professor of Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey, UK. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (China). He is now serving as Deputy Editor for international journal of Indoor and Built Environment, Associate Editor of Sustainable Cities and Society(Special Issue), Journal of Cleaner Production,  Buildings, e-Prime, Editorial Board of  Safety Science etc. He is now the President of International Society of Built Environment (ISBE), Member of ISIAQ, Committee Members of Chinese Society for Environmental Science, China innovation alliance for HVAC etc.

He has published more than 70 SCI papers (H index:30; H10 index:55); 9 papers have been awarded as ESI articles); awarded as World’s Top 2% Scientists in both 2020 and 2021 in built environment design. He has won the First Prize of China Award for Science and Technology in Construction in 2021(initiated by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in China). He has been granted by governmental funding more than 10 times, e.g., NSFC. He has been always interested and active in international collaboration, such as Harvard (Health Initiatives), Surrey (GCRF for CArE-Cities and CArE-Homes), Tampere (TFK for ARCH4FUTURE) etc. He is now the co-editor of ‘Handbook of Ventilation Design in Built Environment’ invited by IET in UK.

He has been served as committee member for international conferences more than 20 times, such as Indoor Air, ISHVAC, IAQVEC etc. He serves as reviewers for more than 100 international journals and assessor/panel members for International Funding Agencies, such as NSFC, RGC (Hongkong) , UKRI, EPSRC, Polish National Science Center (NSC) etc.

We are looking for full-time research posts and full-time post-doctoral researchers with research interests including but not limited to: sustainable built environment, urban ecological planning, multi-scale urban and rural environmental simulation, environmental pollution and exposure, ecological information big data, solid waste disposal and recycling, environmental policy and economic management etc.

The group also recruits Ph.D./M.S. students every year and welcomes applications from outstanding students with backgrounds in built environment, civil engineering and architecture, environment engineering, building materials, geography, information and computer, economics and management.

Interested candidates can send their CVs to email (indicating the degree or position applied for).

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shi_Jie_Cao

Surrey Web: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/shi-jie-cao

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SbMDaZAAAAAJ