Since October 2022, Jan Dieterle is Professor of "Sustainable Open Space and Urban Design" at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. In 2019 - 2022, he was Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Hochschule Geisenheim University. He previously was the interim head of Institute for Landscape Planning and Ecology at the University of Stuttgart in 2016 - 2019. The international master's program "Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design" (IUSD), in cooperation with Ain Shams University in Cairo, was at the centre of his work. IUSD focuses on the enormous global ecological, cultural and socio-economic challenges posed by dynamic urban transformations worldwide. Previously, he taught courses in Architecture and Urban Design at the Institute for Landscape and Garden at the University of Karlsruhe from 2001 - 2008.

Which potentials can be found for a sustainable design of urban space through landscape-oriented urban design in combination with low-tech/low-cost approaches? He is particularly interested in the community-based design of everyday spaces. Integrating ecological and social processes is crucial for this, especially for climate-adapted and water-sensitive concepts for urban landscapes. On the topic "Risk Landscape Upper Rhine" he received his PhD in 2016 at the Faculty of Architecture of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Jan Dieterle has a wide range of experience from freelancing and working in landscape architecture offices as well as in the public sector. After studying landscape architecture at the TU Berlin, he worked in a Berlin landscape architecture office from 1999 - 2001. Since then, his freelance work has been characterised by conceptual work at the fringe of open space planning and urban development, landscape design and engineering. Also at this nexus, Jan Dieterle was head of the open space planning team at urban planning department of the City of Wiesbaden from 2013 - 2017.