Qiuchen Lu

Prof. Qiuchen Lu is a Professor in Digital Built Asset Management at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London (UCL), and a globally recognised scholar in digital innovation for the built environment. Her research focuses on the integration of digital twins, artificial intelligence, and informatics to support the development of smart, sustainable, and resilient (3S) city systems in the context of climate change.

Prof.Lu has secured many fundings as PI/Co-PI, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), British Standards Institution (BSI) etc. She awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng)/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in 2024/2025, one of the most prestigious awards in the UK, which supports the most talented researchers across engineering fields and awarded only seven fellowships yearly. She also awarded the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Young Scientist Scheme by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), where limited outstanding researchers can be awarded globally every five years. Within the domain of digital built environment, she has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and four books, including the Digital Twins in the Built Environment: Fundamentals, principles and applications (ICE Publishing). Her methodological and theoretical contributions – particularly the Five-layer Multi-scale Digital Twin Theory (FMDTT) – are widely adopted in industry and academia across multiple scales, from buildings and hospitals to road networks and port infrastructure.

Moreover, Prof. Lu acts as the International Collaboration Coordinator of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE), and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge and leads international collaborations across Europe and Asia. She acted as the guest editors and reviewers of multiple SCI-indexed journals, including Cities and Advanced Engineering Informatics.