Visiting Scholar, Central South University, China
Yating’s research focuses on thermal regulation and human thermal comfort in urban blue-green open spaces, with an interest in how these spaces mitigate heat stress and support climate-adaptive planning across spatial scales. At the micro scale, she studies how complex microclimatic conditions in urban wetland parks affect human thermal comfort, and develops comfort evaluation and intelligent monitoring methods for different user groups and activity contexts. At the urban scale, she further examines the cooling performance of blue-green infrastructure under heatwave conditions in different types of shrinking cities, focusing on how urban form, built-environment characteristics, vegetation quality, and water coverage shape spatial differences and threshold effects in cooling performance.