Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Sustainability 2021 Young Investigator Award is Prof. Dr. Baojie He.

Prof. Dr. Baojie He is a Research Professor of urban climate and sustainable built environments at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, China.

Prior to Chongqing University, Baojie He was a PhD researcher at the School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia. Baojie is working on cool cities and communities as well as net-zero-carbon built environments. Baojie has strong academic capability, with about 80 peer-reviewed papers published in high-ranking journals as well as oral presentations at reputable conferences. Baojie’s outcomes have large impacts on urban climate as well as built environments and have been widely cited by peers, which enables Baojie to have more than 14 highly cited/hot papers recognized by the world-known database of Web of Science in addition to a high H-index. Baojie has been involved in several large research projects on urban climate and built environments in Australia under the titles of Research Associate and Research Assistant. Baojie has been invited to act as a Topic Editor-in-Chief, Leading Guest Editor, Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, Conference Chair, Sessional Chair, and on the Scientific Committee of a variety of reputable international journals and conferences. Dr. He received the Green Talents Award (Germany) and National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-Funded Foreign Students (China) and he was ranked as one of the single-year and career 100,000 global scientists (2%) by Mendeley, 2021.

As the awardee, Prof. Dr. Baojie He will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000 and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all of the nominators from various fields of study for their participation in addition to all of the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Marc A. Rosen
Editor-in-Chief, Sustainability