People
Tianchen Qu
Research Postgraduate
School/Department: Geography, Geology and the Environment, School of
Email: tq30@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Project: The Impact of Real-time Green Exposure on Human Emotions. Supervised by: Dr Tess Osborne; Professor Heiko Balzter.
I am a PhD student in Human Geography funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), with primary research interests in Emotional and Urban Geography. My doctoral project focuses on exploring how vegetation (green) exposure influences human emotions in real time, using eye-tracking, GeoAI, and Remote Sensing pipelines. More broadly, my research aims to examine the practical applications of emerging Earth observation technologies at human scales to enhance everyday well-being.
MSc. Geographical Information Science (University of Leicester, UK, 2025); BE. Remote Sensing (Jiangsu Normal University, CN, 2023).
Publications
Osborne, T., Drozdzewski, D. and Qu, T. (2025). BioSocial walking: digital and embodied methods for understanding migrant belonging. Geoforum, 167, pp.104441–104441. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104441.
Qu, T., Ma, Q., Liu, X., Li, Y., Qiao, J. and Li, J. (2022). Comparison of Atmospheric Environment in China During SARS and COVID-19 Pandemics. IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9883298
Zhang, Q., Ma, Q., Li, Y., Wang, S., Qu, T., Liu, Z., Zhang, Y. and Gao, C. (2021). Online Education of Remote Sensing in China During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case of Study in Jiangsu Normal University. IGARSS 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554238