is a landscape ecologist and landscape planner and Head of the Laboratory for Landscape Development at EPFL. She has previously held chairs at the University of Potsdam and the Technical University of Munich and was President of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation for fourteen years. This gives her broad expertise in various fields of landscape development, which extends beyond research to the transfer to application and working at the interface between science, politics and society. In her current work, she is particularly interested in inter- and transdisciplinary approaches that deal with the coordination and moderation of different demands on space, for example in the development of green infrastructure in urban areas, or the integration of the expansion of renewable energies into our landscapes.