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1939
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Overview

Zhiwei Lian is affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. The scientist's research primarily centers on engineering, medicine, and environmental science, with a focus on several subfields including building and construction, physiology, environmental engineering, experimental and cognitive psychology, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Throughout their career, they have contributed extensively to topics related to building energy and comfort optimization, thermoregulation and physiological responses, urban heat island mitigation, sleep and related disorders, noise effects and management, color perception and design, and infrared thermography in medicine.

Their frequent collaborators include Xinbo Xu, Li Lan, Junmeng Lyu, Heng Du, and Lin Duanmu.

Zhiwei Lian has published multiple articles in notable scientific venues, with frequent appearances in "Building and Environment," "Energy and Buildings," "Building Simulation," "Journal of Thermal Biology," and "The Science of The Total Environment." The distribution of their publication record shows a longstanding engagement with journals focused on building science and environmental contexts.

Representative recent papers include:

  • A comprehensive review of thermal comfort studies in urban open spaces, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Thermal comfort models and their developments: A review, 2020, Energy and Built Environment
  • Thermal comfort and sleep quality under temperature, relative humidity and illuminance in sleep environment, 2021, Journal of Building Engineering
  • Cognitive performance was reduced by higher air temperature even when thermal comfort was maintained over the 24-28°C range, 2021, Indoor Air
  • Associations of bedroom temperature and ventilation with sleep quality, 2020, Science and Technology for the Built Environment

The research topics addressed in these publications reflect a sustained interest in understanding how environmental variables affect human comfort, sleep quality, cognitive performance, and building environments.

Best Publications

  • Quantitative measurement of productivity loss due to thermal discomfort

    Li Lan;Pawel Wargocki;Zhiwei Lian

  • Effects of thermal discomfort in an office on perceived air quality, SBS symptoms, physiological responses, and human performance

    L. Lan;Pawel Wargocki;David Peter Wyon;Z. Lian

  • Evaluation of calculation methods of mean skin temperature for use in thermal comfort study

    Weiwei Liu;Zhiwei Lian;Qihong Deng;Yuanmou Liu

  • Effects of Exposure to Carbon Dioxide and Bioeffluents on Perceived Air Quality, Self-assessed Acute Health Symptoms and Cognitive Performance.

    Xiaojing Zhang;Xiaojing Zhang;Pawel Wargocki;Zhiwei Lian;Camilla Thyregod

  • Application of statistical power analysis – How to determine the right sample size in human health, comfort and productivity research

    Li Lan;Zhiwei Lian

  • The effects of air temperature on office workers' well-being, workload and productivity-evaluated with subjective ratings.

    Li Lan;Zhiwei Lian;Li Pan

  • A comprehensive review of thermal comfort studies in urban open spaces.

    Dayi Lai;Zhiwei Lian;Weiwei Liu;Chaoran Guo

  • Thermal comfort models and their developments: A review

    Qiantao Zhao;Zhiwei Lian;Dayi Lai

  • Heart rate variability at different thermal comfort levels

    Weiwei Liu;Zhiwei Lian;Yuanmou Liu

  • Thermal environment and sleep quality: A review

    L. Lan;K. Tsuzuki;Y.F. Liu;Z.W. Lian

  • Investigation of gender difference in thermal comfort for Chinese people

    Li Lan;Zhiwei Lian;Weiwei Liu;Yuanmou Liu

  • Experimental study on physiological responses and thermal comfort under various ambient temperatures.

    Ye Yao;Zhiwei Lian;Weiwei Liu;Qi Shen

  • Experimental study on thermal comfort of sleeping people at different air temperatures

    Li Lan;Li Pan;Zhiwei Lian;Hongyuan Huang

  • Neurobehavioral approach for evaluation of office workers' productivity : The effects of room temperature

    Li Lan;Zhiwei Lian;Li Pan;Qian Ye

  • Use of neurobehavioral tests to evaluate the effects of indoor environment quality on productivity

    Li Lan;Zhiwei Lian

  • Heart rate variation and electroencephalograph - the potential physiological factors for thermal comfort study

    Y. Yao;Z. Lian;W. Liu;C. Jiang

  • Cooling-load prediction by the combination of rough set theory and an artificial neural-network based on data-fusion technique

    Zhijian Hou;Zhiwei Lian;Ye Yao;Xinjian Yuan

  • A neural network evaluation model for individual thermal comfort

    Weiwei Liu;Zhiwei Lian;Bo Zhao

  • Physiological responses during exposure to carbon dioxide and bioeffluents at levels typically occurring indoors

    Xiaojing Zhang;Xiaojing Zhang;Pawel Wargocki;Zhiwei Lian

  • Effects of temperature steps on human health and thermal comfort

    Jing Xiong;Zhiwei Lian;Xin Zhou;Jianxiong You

  • Field study of a thermal environment and adaptive model in Shanghai.

    X. J. Ye;Z. P. Zhou;Z. W. Lian;H. M. Liu

  • Optimal operation of a large cooling system based on an empirical model

    Ye Yao;Zhiwei Lian;Zhijian Hou;Xiangjiang Zhou

  • Machine learning approaches to predict thermal demands using skin temperatures: Steady-state conditions

    Changzhi Dai;Changzhi Dai;Hui Zhang;Edward Arens;Zhiwei Lian

Frequent Co-Authors

Li Lan
Li Lan Duke University
Pawel Wargocki
Pawel Wargocki Technical University of Denmark
Qihong Deng
Qihong Deng Zhengzhou University
Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang University of California, Berkeley
Richard de Dear
Richard de Dear University of Sydney
Zhaojun Wang
Zhaojun Wang Nankai University
Yunhao Liu
Yunhao Liu Tsinghua University
Xiao-Ping Zhang
Xiao-Ping Zhang University of Birmingham
Hong Liu
Hong Liu Shandong University
Jing Liu
Jing Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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