Kirstin Miller

Nico Tillie

Andy van den Dobbelsteen

‘I work in the field of sustainable buildings and sustainable energy systems, as well as climate adaptation: anticipating predicted changes in the climate. We conduct research and translate solutions into actions and new concepts. We also look for and find new relationships where none existed before.

The Climate Design & Sustainability chair has close links with the technical aspect of Architecture. Our research focuses on sustainable energy systems and climate adaptation, but we also design and create new and specific products.

Russell Galt

Sharon Gil

Sharon Gil is a programme officer in UNEP’s Paris Office and leads the work on circular economy in cities. She is a strong advocate for a just transition to a circular economy. She also coordinates partnerships and joint resource mobilization on sustainable urbanization for UNEP.

An urban planner by profession, Sharon started her career in sustainable urban development in the late 90s, as a technical expert on the award-winning UNDP Private Sector Participation in Managing the Environment (PRIME) Project which has the distinction of being one of the first eco-industrial initiatives in Asia. She continued to develop her expertise in sustainable urbanization by rehabilitating old urban areas in Hong Kong with a private architecture and planning firm. Moving back to the development sector, she was instrumental in conceptualizing and implementing the first multi-hazard mapping project focused in coastal cities in the Philippines, bringing together scientists in different fields and linking them with local government actors. She also worked for over a year as Planning Advisor in Zambia where she focused on capacity building on land distribution and gender equality. Sharon joined UNEP in 2012 to manage a project on mainstreaming environment issues in city planning and management.

Sharon has a Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University New York’s School of International and Public Affairs. She studied urban planning at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Architecture as a Japan/ADB fellow.

Rob Roggema

Katharina Hoelscher

Sahar Attia

Marco Roos

Marco Roos is member of the scientific staff of Naturalis Biodiversity Centre. Trained as a tropical botanist and pteridologist, his field of expertise is now Dutch flora and Urban biodiversity. He is also affiliated to Leiden University as examiner Biology and coordinator of the curriculum on Urban ecology. His main interests at the moment are urban ecological networks and floristics, and spontaneous vegetation processes in urban areas.

Jip Louwe Kooijmans

Jip Louwe Kooijmans works at BirdLife in the Netherlands (Vogelbescherming Nederland). He is team leader for the national program on urban bird conservation. Published several books and reports on birds, including:
- Stadsvogels (handbook on urban bird conservation), 2009
- State of the urban birds, 2009 & 2013
- Stadsvogels in hun domein (urban bird benchmark) 2014

Steffen Nijhuis

Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch

Bertram de Rooij

Maarten Nypels

Denise Noslin