Daniel Roehr is a registered landscape architect in Berlin and Vancouver, a horticulturalist, and educator. In 2007 he founded the Greenskins Lab under the umbrella of the Design Centre of Sustainability at UBC, where his current research focuses on monitoring the holistic environmental performance of green roofs, green facades and green streets in cities. He has published refereed papers with his international team of researchers on this topic in Europe, North America and Australia. He has also published articles on urban planning issues in Vancouver, education in landscape architecture and two books with his students titled "Sketching Iran" and "Sketching Italy". In addition to Roehr's teaching and international practice experience, he has significant expertise in green roof and other cutting edge "green" technologies in landscape architecture.