Dr. Nico Tillie (1972) holds a PhD in synergetic urban landscape planning from TU Delft and has two MSc degrees from Wageningen University. He was trained in Kew Gardens in botany and garden planting. He is in charge of the Urban Ecology & Ecocities lab (UECL) and teaches landscape architecture at TU Delft.
He was Vice President of the World Council on City Data and worked for the city of Rotterdam. There he worked on projects ranging from the Museumpark to city wide green, energy, circularity and climate adaptation plans. He has published on these topics and has lectured all over the world.
He also writes for garden magazines on planting and garden design in whice he specialises.
He is a senior research fellow of the Global Cities Institute of the University of Toronto. Nico was the conference chair of the 2022 Ecocity World Summit.
Selected thesis projects that Nico has supervised:
– Catalina Rey (2019;) Rethinking the Territory of Concepción Chile
– Pu Jiang (2021) Beyond road – From street lanes to linear forests
– Louisa van den Brink (2021) In Between Nature: Nature-based placemaking for Rotterdam’s territories in-between