Dr Xing ZHENG

Postdoctoral Researcher & Module Coordinator of The Sea-City Interface

Dr Xing (Janssen) Zheng is currently a module coordinator and Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the “Sea-City Interface” module in FCL Global.

Prior to joining FCL, he was involved in multidisciplinary research projects as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands), with the thesis entitled “Computational analysis of the impact of façade geometrical details on wind flow and pollutant dispersion”. These projects focused on the nexus of “urban climatic environment - building performance”, with the overall aim to provide a healthy, comfortable, and energy-efficient built environment and other enclosures. His research topics cover urban thermal and wind environments, pollutant dispersion, building greenery systems, and performance-driven design.

He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture from Chongqing University (China) and Southeast University (China), respectively. During his graduate studies, he was involved in teaching design studios and architectural practices. His work has been collected by Sharing & Regeneration - 15th Biennale Architettura.

He has acted as a reviewer for more than 20 different ISI journals. He served as an Early Career Board Member of the peer-reviewed journal Architectural Intelligence and a Youth Editorial Board Member of the peer-reviewed journal Building simulation.

Research Interests

Urban wind/thermal environments
Building climate-adaptive strategies
Performance-driven urban/architecture design

Awards

2018 First-Prize in GARS-NEPAL.TIBET Earthquake Emergency calling on architects all around the world for reconstruction designing projects
2016 First-Prize in ARCASIA Students’ Architectural Design Competition
2016 Full Scholarship for Technion Summer School of Science & Engineering