Chair holder
Wolfgang Wende
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Landscape Planning, joint professorship with the IOER
Research Interests
Landscape Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment, Impact Mitigation Regulation, Urban Planning
Evaluation and Development of Spatial Planning Instruments
Offshore Spatial Planning and Nature Conservation
Landscape Policies and Biodiversity
Professional Experience
Since 2010
Head of the Research Area ‘Landscape Change and Management’ at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development and Full Professor at the TU Dresden for Urban Development
Since 2024
Visiting Full Professor at the University College Dublin in Landscape Architecture
2009-2021
Associate Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, Master Programme ‘Landscape Architecture’
2008-2009
Scientific Assistant at Germany’s Federal Environment Agency
2006-2008
Visiting Professor at TU Berlin
1999-2006
Scientific Assistant at the Department for Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment of TU Berlin
Education
2001 Doctorate in Engineering Landscape Planning (Ph.D)
1998-1999 Awarded Doctorate Fellowship of the State of Berlin for Young Scientists
1997 TU Berlin Graduate Diploma in Engineering Landscape Planning
Memberships
President of the German Association for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) from 2011 to 2016
Member of the Council of EIA-Association since 2017
International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)
Association of German Landscape Architects
Federal Association of Official Nature Conservationists
Saxon Academy of Sciences, External Member of the Commission for Regional Studies
Member of the Programme Committee Centre for Building Culture Saxony