PERSONAL INFORMATION

Family name: Shi

First name: Lifeng

Year of birth: 1990

Nationality: People's Republic of China

Email:shilf@cumt.edu.cn

Research Highlight: Monitoring and analysis onurban expansions, land use changes, landscape metrics, and urban spatial patterns by using Earth Observation Data and Geographical Big Data.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIFNCES

09.2021 - todayAssociate Professor

China University of Mining and Technology, School of Public Policy and Management, Xuzhou

03.2018 - 08.2021Postdoctoral Researcher

Nanjing University, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing

09.2018 - 02.2020Postdoctoral Researcher

German Remote Sensing Data Center, German Aerospace Center

EDUCATION

09.2012 - 01.2018 Doctoral Student

Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Prof. Zengxiang Zhang)

09.2016 - 09.2017 Exchange PhD Student

German Remote Sensing Data Center German Aerospace Center (Prof. Hannes Taubenböck)

09.2008 - 07.2012 Bachelor Student

School of Resources and Environmental Engineering Hefei University of Technology

FUNDINGS RECEIVED & PARTICIPATION IN ACADAMIC PROJECTS

1.Organized a “Postgraduate Director Fund”named “China urban land spatial distribution and its rationality”, which was set up especially for innovative PhD candidate.

2.Supported by the fundfrom Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), studied at DLR as an international PhD candidate for one year during 9.2016－9.2017.

3.Project leader, the project name is “Housing vacancy rate estimation of block scale ‘ghost city’ based on multi-source remote sensing data”, which is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

4.Project leader, the project name was “Typical ‘ghost cities’ identification and their housing vacancy rates estimation”, which was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2019M651775).

5.Project leader, the project, named “Research on fine identification and evaluation model of inefficient industrial land”, was funded by the Key Laboratory of Urban Land Resources Monitoring and Simulation of the Ministry of Natural Resources.

REPRESENTIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Lifeng Shi; Michael Wurm; Xianjin Huang; Taiyang Zhong; Tobias Leichtle; Hannes Taubenböck; Estimating housing vacancy rates at block level: The example of Guiyang, China, Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022, 224: 104431

2. Lifeng Shi; Tobias Leichtle; Michael Wurm; Hannes Taubenböck; The “ghost neighborhood” phenomenon in China—geographic locations and intra-urban spatial patterns, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2022, 49(9): 2363-2377

3. Lifeng Shi; Michael Wurm; Xianjin Huang; Taiyang Zhong; Tobias Leichtle; Hannes Taubenböck; Urbanization that hides in the dark – Spotting China’s “ghost neighborhoods” from space, Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020, 200: 103822

4. Lifeng Shi; Michael Wurm; Xianjin Huang; Taiyang Zhong; Hannes Taubenböck; Measuring the spatial hierarchical urban system in China in reference to the Central Place Theory, Habitat International, 2020, 105: 102264

5. Lifeng Shi; Xianjing Huang; Taiyang Zhong; Hannes Taubenböck; Mapping plastic greenhouses using spectral metrics derived from GaoFen-2 satellite data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2019, 13, 49-59.

6. Lifeng Shi;Hannes Taubenböck; Zengxiang Zhang; Fang Liu; Michael Wurm; Urbanization in China from the end of 1980s until 2010–spatial dynamics and patterns of growth using EO-data. International Journal of Digital Earth, 2019, 12(1), 78-94.