Dr. Dietwald Gruehn, Professor
Chair of Research Group Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning
Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University (MSU)
Member of German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning (DASL)
Dean of Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University
Vice Chairman of Faculties' Conference, TU Dortmund University
Contact
TU Dortmund University
Department of Spatial Planning
Research Group Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning
Campus South, GB III, Room 3.320
August-Schmidt-Straße 10
44227 Dortmund
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)231 755 2285
Fax: +49 (0)231 755 4877
E-Mail: dietwald.gruehn@udo.edu
Office hours
Fridays from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

- Landscape and environmental planning
- Validation and development of methods for the evaluation of landscape functions, landscape assessment, land valuation
- Concepts for sustainable land use
- Climate change, climate protection and adaptation
- Open space research
- Soundscapes
- Environmental law and policy
- Empirical impact research (planning instruments and funding programs)
- Applied multivariate statistics in spatial planning
2004 | German "Habilitation" and "Venia legendi" in Landscape Planning, Landscape Management and Nature Conservation, Berlin University of Technology, Germany |
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1997 | Ph.D. equivalent (Dr.-Ing.), Berlin University of Technology, Germany (honors degree) |
1991-1997 | Correspondence degree course "Public Law", University of Hagen, Germany |
1991 | M.Sc. equivalent (Dipl.-Ing.) in Landscape Planning, Berlin University of Technology, Germany (honors degree) |
1985-1991 | Landscape Planning, Berlin University of Technology, Germany |
1983-1984 | Geography, University of Giessen, Germany |
1991 | Self-employed landscape planner in Hesse |
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1991-1997 | Research assistant at the Department of Landscape Planning, Landscape Management and Nature Conservation (with H. Kenneweg), Technical University of Berlin |
1997-2003 | Research assistant at the Department of Landscape Planning, Landscape Conservation and Nature Conservation (with H. Kenneweg), Technical University of Berlin |
2003 | Consultant at Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian Environment Ltd. (ELLE), Riga, Latvia, within the framework of the EU expert exchange program "Leonardo da Vinci" |
2003-2004 | Visiting professor, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), Institutionen för landskapsplanering, Alnarp, Sweden |
2004 | Managing Director of the Society for Environmental Planning, Research and Consulting, Berlin |
2005-2006 | Lecturer at the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Technical University of Berlin |
2005-2006 | Head of the Environmental Planning Department at Austrian Research Centers - systems research GmbH, Vienna, Austria |
Since 2006 | University Professor (W3), Chair of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning at the Department of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund |
2007-2008 | Deputy Head of the Institute for Spatial Planning (IRPUD), University of Dortmund |
2009-2010 | Managing Director of the Institute for Spatial Planning (IRPUD), Dortmund University of Technology |
Since 2010 | Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University (MSU), USA |
2014-2017 | Adjunct Professor at Graduate School of National Public Policy, Chungnam National University (CNU), South Korea |
2014-2015 | Dean of the Department of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University of Technology |
2020-2022 | Vice Dean of the Department of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University of Technology |
Since 10/2022 | Dean of the Department of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University of Technology |
Since 10/2024 | Deputy Chairman of the Faculty Conference, TU Dortmund University |
1992 | Sponsorship award "Young Landscape Conservators" from the Federal Association of Graduate Engineers in Horticulture and Landscape Conservation (BDGL) |
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2003 | Scholarship as part of the Leonardo da Vinci program of the EU |
2009 | Appointment as a member of the LAG NRW of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) |
2010 | Appointment as Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Michigan State University (USA) |
2011 | Appointment as a member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning (DASL) |
2011 | Research Award of the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University (with S. Greiving and others) |
2012 | Distinguished Partner in Study Abroad Award, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University (USA) |
2014 | Appointment as Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of National Public Policy, Chungnam National University (South Korea) |
- Federal Association for Professional Nature Conservation (BBN)
- German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning (DASL)
- German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL)
- Society for Ecology (GfÖ)
- International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights (PLPR)
- International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE)
- North Rhine-Westphalia State Working Group of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL)
- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Germany (NABU)
- EIA Society e. V.