Grêt-regamey, Adrienne

Biography

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey has been Professor at the Chair of Planning Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, ETH since 2014 and was Associate Professor from 2008-2014. Born in 1973 in Bern, Switzerland, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey earned her diploma degree in 1998 from the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH and an ETH diploma as a biology and environmental sciences teacher in 1999. Between 1999 and 2002, A. Grêt-Regamey worked as a consultant for Stratus Consulting, a company located in Washington, D.C. and Boulder, Colorado, conducting natural resource damage assessments. In 2003, she won a Marie-Heim-Vögtlin stipend from the Swiss National Science Foundation to conduct her doctoral thesis at the U.S. National Center of Atmospheric Research in the Environmental and Societal Impact Group and returned to ETH for completion. A.Grêt-Regamey was awarded twice the ETH silver medal for both the diploma and the PhD thesis. In 2006 she was offered a position as a scientist officer at the Swiss Federal Office for Environment and returned to ETH as a Post-doctoral Research Fewllow in 2007.

Research Interest

Her research currently focuses on understanding how the interactions and/or actions of humans shape landscapes at various temporal and spatial scales, using different land-use decision models in forecasting and backcasting modes. For fostering participatory landscape planning, she investigates how people perceive the landscape in the new AudioVisual Lab, where state-of-the-art 3D visualizations and auralizations of landscape changes are generated and decision support tools developed. She also explores how an iterative process between design and science can allow co-creating place specific responses satisfying human needs and demands for well-being in a sustainable manner. For one of her recent research projects, the consortium was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation Transdisciplinary Award.