Patrik Grahn holds an MSc in biology from Uppsala University (1982), an MSc in landscape architecture from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp (1985), and a PhD in landscape architecture from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp (1991). He is a full professor in landscape architecture with a specialisation in environmental psychology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp. Since 1991, he has researched the relationship between people's exposure to and/or stay in urban parks and natural areas and their health and well-being. In 2000, he took the initiative to build the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences' research infrastructure, Alnarp Rehabilitation Garden. Patrik Grahn is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and has received their highest award for research and implementation of research results in society, the A.W. Bergsten Prize. He has also received the highest awards from Stockholm Gartnersällskap and from the Swedish Association of Municipal Gardeners. He has received the Environmental Prize of Region Skåne and the Prize of Honour from the Danish Association of the Culture of Gardens.