Dr Qing Pei joined the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Associate Professor in 2023. He is also jointly employed by the Department of Chinese History and Culture. Before joining PolyU, he used to work as Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the Education University of Hong Kong, Fellow in the University of Cambridge, UK, the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Post-doctoral Fellow in the University of Hong Kong. His research interests traverse both physical and social sciences, which mainly encompass history and geography, climate change and human history, and social-ecological resilience. So far, his research has been funded by General Research Fund and the Early Career Scheme, Research Grant Council of Hong Kong. He was the awardee of Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (2022-2023), Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards, Second-class Award in Natural Sciences, the Ministry of Education, China (2019-2020), and Carson Fellowship, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (2018).