Qiuyu Chen gained her Bachelor of architecture from Huazhong university of Science and Technology in Wuhan China, Master of architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, the United States, and Doctor of architecture from Huazhong university of Science and Technology, with a vistorship to the Department of Landscape in the University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom.

She is now a lecturer at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong university of Science and Technology, and the project leader of the China National Natural Science foundation research project "Theoretical construction and experimental verification of the energy efficiency model of the the living wall system".

Research interests include sustainable design, healthy buildings, vertical greening, architecture materials, and techtonic studies.