Wendy Chen is a professor and the deputy head (research) of Geography Department, at The University of Hong Kong.

She serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, a flagship international journal in the interdisciplinary field of urban green-blue infrastructure, urban landscape design and management, urban planning and governance. She serves as a member of Urban Forestry Advisory Panel (HKSAR), the advisory committee of the nature-based solutions Asian hub established by China’s Ministry of Natural

Resources and IUCN, and others.

Prof. Chen is passionate about integrating urban green-blue components into conventional grey infrastructure for sustainable cities and human wellbeing. Her research focuses on key gaps in evaluating and modelling urban natural spaces that are reserved, modified, and deployed in urban and peri-urban areas for urban resilience and sustainability. She has been listed as the world top 1% scholars by Clarivate Analytics consecutively since 2020.

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