Nico Tillie is an Assistant Professor of Landscape in the Urbanism Department at TU Delft. Before starting his academic career, he was responsible for Rotterdam’s main proposals and publications for the Rotterdam Architecture Biennales themed "Urban by Nature" and "Making City", focusing on Urban Metabolism and greening between 2012 and 2014. He is a (co)initiator and (co)author of three successful European projects: MUSIC, CityKeys (Rotterdam), and Celsius Cities (TU Delft). In 2009, he entered academia as a researcher in sustainable urban energy planning as the Climate Design & Sustainability Chair of the Department of Architectural Engineering + Technology, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment at TU Delft. In 2013, he started working as the Chair of Landscape Architecture in the Urbanism department, focusing on urban ecology, planting, and urban metabolism. Since 2008, he has represented the Rotterdam region with the German Marshall Fund in Washington DC. Since 2014, he has been Vice President of the World Council on City Data and director of the European office. He is a Senior Fellow of the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto. In 2019, he became a research fellow in urban ecology with Birdlife Netherlands and is setting up an urban ecology chair at TU Delft.