Sanda Lenzholzer

Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University, and also Senior Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS), she studied Landscape Architecture at Leibnitz University Hannover, and Housing and Urbanism at the Association School of London. She then worked as a designer in landscape architecture studios (including Mecanoo and Sant en Co) in the Netherlands and in Germany (STFreiraum). After 2004, she was a tenured lecturer at Wageningen University where she has specialised in climate-focused urban design. Her research integrates urban climate science with urban planning and design. She publishes in several academic journals, and her book on urban climate adaptation, Weather in the City (nai010 publishers), has received international attention. With her research projects (including Climate Proof Cities, Climadaptool, REALCOOL, and MSCA ITN SOLOCLIM) she has contributed to improving knowledge of urban design adapted to climate. Sandra Lenzholzer also works with the Resilience Engineering Centre, which aims to address the major challenges of the future, among them, climate change, energy transition, water management, and other sociotechnological changes, and to develop resilient solutions from the field of landscaping and urban design.