Liu
M.Sc. Zihan Liu
Postadresse
Arcisstr. 21
80333 München
- Tel.: +49 89 289 22832
- Raum: 0507.01.779
- E-Mail: khan.liu@tum.de
Research Interests
- Urban Mobility: traffic safety, active mobility, road user behavior, pedestrian-vehicle interaction
- Visual Analytics & Geovisualization: spatiotemporal data visualization, visual storytelling
- Geoinformation & Geo-Data Science: open urban data, volunteered geographic information (VGI)
- Urban Science
- Network & Complexity Science
Curriculum Vitae
Work Experience
- Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics, Technical University of Munich, October 2023 - now
- Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics, Technical University of Munich, July 2022 - September 2023
Education Experience
- Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.), Cartography and Visual Analytics, Technical University of Munich, February 2024 - now
- Master of Science (M.Sc.), International Master of Science Programme in Cartography, Technical University of Munich, Vienna University of Technology, Dresden University of Technology, University of Twente, October 2021 - September 2023
- Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Wuhan University, September 2017 - June 2021
- Minor in Business Management (Entrepreneurial Management), Ziqiang Entrepreneurship Program, Wuhan University, February 2019 - June 2021
Teaching
Courses
Theses
- A Spatially Explicit Framework for Assessing Theoretical and Technical Potential of Utility-Scale Photovoltaics: A Case Study of Germany (Khaleel, A. A., M.Sc. ESPACE, 2025, co-supervised with Kerschbaum, A., Chair of Energy Systems)
- Risk Assessment of Urban Bicycle Network Integrating Objective and Subjective Approaches — A Case Study of Munich (Nouman, M., M.Sc. Civil Engineering, 2025, co-supervised with Xue, J.)
- Real-Time Visualization of Parking Status on Roads: A Case Study in Munich (Li, J., B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, 2024, co-supervised with Feng, Y., & Xue, J.)
Seminars
- Geodetic Seminar
- Scalable Visual Analytics for Massive Trajectories (Zeng, H., M.Sc. Geodesy and Geoinformation, WS25/26)
- State of the art in Low-Barrier and Participatory Urban Data (Lian, C., M.Sc. Geodesy and Geoinformation, WS25/26)
- Visual Analytics of Mobility Data: Risk Assessment in Pedestrian-Vehicle Interactions (Lopez, L., M.Sc. Land Management and Geospatial Science, WS24/25)
- Trajectory Data Quality Evaluation and Quality Improvement (Hu, Z., M.Sc. Geodesy and Geoinformation, WS24/25)
- Mapping for a Sustainable World Seminar
- Pedaling through Munich - Mapping the Bikeway Network in Munich (Şimşir, Y., M.Sc. Geodesy and Geoinformation, WS24/25)
- ESPACE Seminar
- How to Delineate a City: a Remote-Sensing Perspective (Zhang, Z., M.Sc. ESPACE, SS24)
- Geodetic Seminar
Others
- Module “Small Data, Big Insight: Understanding Cities through Low-Barrier and Participatory Urban Data”, at the TUM, TUM Asia, and Tsinghua University Winter School 2025 (Beijing): Smart Sustainable Cities and Transportations
- Great Geodetic Excursion 2024 (M.Sc. and B.Sc. Geodesy and Geoinformation; SS24)
Conferences & Presentations
- Liu, Z., Xue, J., Feng, Y., Reichenbacher, T., & Meng, L. (2025). Efficient Visual Analytics of Localized High-Frequency Multimodal All-Traffic Trajectory Data at Urban Intersections. Oral presentation at the 32nd International Cartographic Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
- Liu, Z. (2025). Leveraging Visual Analytics to Explore Pedestrian–Vehicle Interaction. Oral presentation at the Young Cartographers Workshop, 75th Anniversary of the German Society for Cartography (DGfK), Berlin, Germany.
- Liu, Z., Luo, P., Murphy, C. E., & Meng, L. (2023). The Potential of VGI for Solving the Traffic Sensor Location Problem from the Perspective of Traffic Safety. Oral presentation at the 31st International Cartographic Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Publications
Certificates and Awards
- Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education of the Bavarian Universities - Basic Level (Zertifikat Hochschullehre der Bayerischen Universitäten - Grundstufe), Technical University of Munich, December 2024
- ICA Scholarship, International Cartographic Association (ICA), August 2023
- M.Sc. Cartography Scholarship, International M.Sc. Programme in Cartography, October 2021 - September 2023
- Outstanding Graduate, Wuhan University, June 2021
- Liu Daoyu Creative Study Scholarship, Wuhan University & Liu Daoyu Education Foundation, October 2019 & October 2020