He has co-initiated both the Solar Research Programme, an initiative to consolidate and boost research on solar energy at WUR, and the WUR Energy Alliance, a platform for more than 70 researchers and teachers from WUR working on energy transition.

He is also founding director of the NRGlab, and Principal Investigator at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions. His research and teaching focuses on the relations between renewable energy technologies and landscapes, with a focus on areas with high population densities.

From 2017 until 2022, he was Professor at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. He launched the NRGlab, a laboratory devoted to research on energy transition and design of sustainable energy landscapes, with Renée de Waal in 2012.

Sven Stremke obtained a DipIoma in landscape architecture from the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt, Germany (2001), and an MA in landscape architecture from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany (2006). He completed his PhD at Wageningen University, the Netherlands (2010) with his thesis: Designing Sustainable Energy Landscapes: Concepts, Principles and Procedures. The objective of his dissertation was to advance the planning and design of sustainable landscapes by examining science-based design concepts (substantive knowledge) and means to organize the design process (procedural knowledge). All of his scientific work is published in peer-reviewed papers.