About

Dr. Qian (Victoria) Chen is a professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on high-performance green buildings, energy simulation and analysis, construction safety, waste management, and sustainable construction practices. She is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional and serves on the Senior Editorial Board of the Journal of Green Building. Dr. Chen has taught courses related to construction methods and materials, project management, mechanical systems for buildings, and green building and sustainable construction. She has led numerous service-learning, community engagement, and outreach projects in building energy efficiency, green homes, and sustainable community development. Her efforts in green building and environmental education have been recognized with awards such as the OSU 2020 Community Engaged Program Award, the 2013 Emerging Community Engagement Award, the 2013 Emerging Service-Learning Award, and the Ohio EPA’s 2012 Outstanding Project Award.

Research topics

• Environmental science
• Geography
• Meteorology
• Geology
• Thermodynamics
• Mechanics
• Cartography
• Physics
• Atmospheric sciences
• Remote sensing

Selected publications

• [Using Hybrid Modeling to Examine the Input Flux of Phosphorus and Its Reduction in the Terrestrial Area of Dongting Lake Area].

  PubMed · 2025-01-08

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  t, provided the highest risk and required specific regulation for its phosphorus levels, with the river system area and agricultural land emerging as the principal factors contributing to this risk. The LSTM model, using multi-feature input, effectively simulated phosphorus input fluxes at the sub-basin scale, achieving NSE > 0.6. Additionally, the hybrid model demonstrated better performance at the river system scale, with NSE > 0.8, RPE < 10%, and reduced data feature requirements. The study identified soil inflow reduction as a relatively effective approach for reducing phosphorus flux in the Sankou area, highlighting soil as the primary carrier of phosphorus and emphasizing its significance in non-point source pollution control, in addition to the fact that attention should be paid to the problem of livestock and poultry pollution. These findings offer valuable scientific insights and data support for understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of phosphorus input fluxes and devising phosphorus reduction strategies in the Dongting Lake area.

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• Sequential drug-release microsphere system for scarless wound healing

  Materials Today Bio · 2025-09-23 · 3 citations

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  The dynamic imbalance in skin wound healing is a key factor of hypertrophic scar (HS) formation. Traditional treatments often target only a certain stage of the wound healing process and fail to comprehensively address the dynamic imbalance, thus making it difficult to achieve scarless wound healing. This study developed a chronologically adaptive methacrylylated gelatin (GelMA)-based microsphere delivery system (G/E/T) that achieves comprehensive intervention in wound healing process through precisely orchestrated sequential release of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and triamcinolone acetonide (TA). In vitro studies have confirmed that the G/E/T microsphere system, utilizing this sequential release mechanism, not only alleviates oxidative stress and inflammatory responses in the early stages but also persistently inhibits the excessive proliferation and migration of fibroblasts in the later phases, demonstrating stage-specific therapeutic precision. Moreover, validated through mouse full-thickness wound model and rabbit ear HS model, the system exhibited remarkable scarless healing outcomes. The "sequential release and dual-agent synergy" design paradigm provides an innovative strategy for scarless wound healing while establishing a foundational framework for developing sequential multidrug delivery systems targeting complex pathological processes.

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• The Effect of Low Temperature and Low Illumination Intensity on the Photosynthetic Characteristics and Antioxidant Enzyme Activity in the Strawberry

  Agronomy · 2025-03-29 · 3 citations

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  Low temperature (LT) and low illumination (LI) are common meteorological factors posing a great risk to plants. This study aimed to clarify and quantify the effects of LT, LI, and their combined stress (LTLI) on the photosynthetic physiological processes of strawberry plants during the flowering stage. The results indicated that LI stress increased Chla and b levels in strawberry plants while lowering the chlorophyll a/b ratio. In contrast, LT and LTLI stress reduced chlorophyll content. All stress conditions (LT, LI, and LTLI) decreased net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, transpiration rate, the maximum photochemical efficiency of photosystem II, photosynthetic electron transport rate, and actual photochemical quantum efficiency. These stresses also raised intercellular carbon dioxide concentration, non-photochemical quenching coefficient, and levels of malondialdehyde, proline, hydrogen peroxide, and peroxide ion content. Moreover, LI stress treatment boosted the activity of superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, and catalase, while LT and LTLI stress initially raised the activity of these enzymes before it eventually declined. Importantly, the previously mentioned photosynthetic physiological parameters showed notable changes under the combined stress conditions. Ultimately, the TOPSIS model was used to quantitatively evaluate the impact levels of different stressors and treatment durations on the photosynthetic system of strawberry plants. In conclusion, the synergistic impact of LT and LI results in a reduction in photosynthetic rate and photosystem II activity, a disruption in the equilibrium of the antioxidant system, and an intensification of photoinhibition, ultimately leading to diminished photosynthetic efficiency in plants.

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• The effects of aerosol on the growth of hydrometeors in deep convective clouds

  Atmospheric Research · 2025-03-26 · 4 citations

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• Optimizing meteorological predictions to improve photovoltaic power generation in coastal areas

  Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments · 2025-05-10

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• Turbulence‐Induced Non‐Monotonic Influence of Aerosols on Cloud Droplet Size Distribution

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2025-05-29 · 3 citations

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  Abstract Cloud droplet size distribution (DSD) is essential for quantifying the roles of clouds in earth system, including cloud albedo, precipitation formation, and cloud lifetime. The response of cloud droplet spectral relative dispersion ( ε ) to aerosol number concentration ( N a ) as well as the role of turbulence in this response are yet puzzling. This study uses large eddy simulation to examine the ε – N a relationship and derives an expression for ε from a minimal model to elucidate this relationship. Our findings indicate that as N a increases, ε initially decreases because aerosols weaken turbulence‐induced broadening more than condensational narrowing. However, as N a continues to rise, ε increases as aerosols weaken condensational narrowing more significantly than turbulence‐induced broadening. These findings improve the understanding of the aerosol effects on cloud DSD and address the challenge of quantifying aerosol indirect effects considering turbulence, potentially leading to new cloud microphysics parameterizations.

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• A multiscale network with mixed features and extended regional weather forecasts for predicting short-term photovoltaic power

  Energy · 2025-01-30 · 12 citations

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• Ripple Effects: Exploring Holographic Projection's Potential in Enhancing Plastic Pollution Awareness

  Communications in computer and information science · 2025-01-01

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• Non-Optimal Wet-Bulb Temperature and Short-Term Black Carbon Exposure Largely Impact Emergency Department Visits for Cause-Stable Ischemic Heart Disease

  Atmosphere · 2025-05-04

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  Little is known about the effects of wet-bulb temperature (WBT) and short-term black carbon (BC) exposure on emergency department visits for cause-stable ischemic heart disease (CSIHD). In this study, we improved and extended a set of distributed lag nonlinear models (DLNMs). After controlling for the interaction effect of WBT and BC and multiple confounding factors, we found that the lagged effect of low WBT reached the maximum risk of 1.076 (95% CI, 1.083–1.134) at lag day 7, which was greater than the maximum value of 1.057 (95% CI, 1.016–1.093) of high WBT occurring at lag day 0. The lagged effects of low and high BC both approached their maximum at lag day 0, corresponding to the risk of 1.061 (95% CI, 1.021–1.085) and 1.326 (95% CI, 1.072–1.187), respectively. The effect of short-term consecutive extreme low WBT was significant over a duration of 0–5.5 days and became insignificant after 5.5 days, whereas extreme high WBT had no impact except for the duration of 0–3 days. Exposure to short-term consecutive extreme low and high BC was found to have significant effects over a certain period, manifested in the durations of 0–1, 4–10, and 0–10 days, respectively. Our study confirmed the association of varying degrees of WBT and BC with emergency department visits for CSIHD, and targeted public health interventions for individuals are recommended under specific external humid thermal and high air pollution environments.

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• Depicting the Physiological, Biochemical and Metabolic Responses to the Removal of Adventitious Roots and Their Functions in Cucumis melo Under Waterlogging Stress

  Agronomy · 2025-09-26

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  Waterlogging poses a grave abiotic stress that hampers crop productivity and survival due to reduced oxygen availability in the impacted tissues. To adapt to this hypoxic environment, the hypocotyls of melon (Cucumis melo L.) seedlings can produce a profusion of adventitious roots when exposed to waterlogging stress. However, research on the significance of these adventitious roots under waterlogging stress has been limited. The present study aimed to elucidate the critical role of adventitious roots by investigating the physiological, biochemical, and metabolic changes that occur following their removal during waterlogging stress. The removal of adventitious roots compromised the normal growth of melon seedlings, resulting in phenotypic abnormalities such as chlorotic and withered leaves. Our results indicated that the removal of adventitious roots led to significant reductions in total chlorophyll levels by 62.89% and 43.60% compared to the normal control condition and waterlogging stress alone, respectively. Additionally, in the adventitious root removal treatment, higher malondialdehyde (MDA) content, O2•− production rate, monodehydroascorbate reductase (MDHAR) activity, alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity, the AsA/DHA ratio, proline content, jasmonic acid (JA) content, and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) content were observed. Specifically, JA levels were significantly enhanced by 180.54% and 52.05%, and ACC levels were significantly increased by 519.23% and 125.16% compared to the control and waterlogging stress conditions, respectively. Through untargeted metabolomic analysis, a total of 447 differentially accumulated metabolites (DAMs) were identified. Notably, jasmonic acid and brassinolide, which are involved in plant hormone signal transduction, along with cyanidin 3-(2G-xylosylrutinoside) classified as flavonoids, (2S,3′S)-α-amino-2-carboxy-5-oxo-1-pyrrolidinebutanoic acid categorized as proline and derivatives, and ligstroside-aglycone and foeniculoside VII annotated as terpenoids, exhibited key roles in the waterlogging response. This research enhances our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the removal of adventitious roots during waterlogging stress, as well as the associated physiological, biochemical, and metabolic changes. These findings provide valuable insights into the crucial role of adventitious roots in melon seedlings subjected to waterlogging stress and may inform strategies for enhancing waterlogging tolerance in breeding practices.

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Frequent coauthors

• Yan Yin

  42 shared

• Ning Quan

  Universiti Sains Malaysia

  22 shared

• Jinghua Chen

  Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

  17 shared

• Hui Xiao

  Institute of Atmospheric Physics

  13 shared

• Chunsong Lu

  China Meteorological Administration

  12 shared

• Lianji Jin

  10 shared

• X. Liu

  The Ohio State University

  10 shared

• A.J. Tarr

  9 shared

Awards & honors

• 2021-2022 Ohio State Energy Partners Awards
• Ohio State University Outreach and Engagement Award
• OSU 2020 Community Engaged Program Award
• 2013 Emerging Community Engagement Award
• 2013 Emerging Service-Learning Award