Prof. Dr.-Ing. Constanze A. Petrow is a landscape architect. She studied Landscape Planning at TU Berlin. From 2001 to 2009, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Landscape Architecture and the Chair of Sociology of Globalization at the Faculty of Architecture of Bauhaus University Weimar. In 2007, she taught as a Visiting Professor at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center (Virginia Tech) near Washington, D.C. She earned her doctorate at Leibniz University Hannover with a dissertation on the societal perception of contemporary landscape architecture based on its coverage in national daily newspapers.

From 2009 to 2016, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Design and Open Space Planning in the Department of Architecture at TU Darmstadt. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Open Space Planning and Society at Geisenheim University. There, she heads the Institute for Open Space Development.

Constanze A. Petrow serves as an juror in open space planning, urban design, and architectural competitions. She is a member of the Chamber of Architects and Urban Planners of Hesse and of the German Association of Landscape Architects (bdla), as well as an appointed member of the German Academy of Urban and Regional Planning (DASL), the Scientific Advisory Board of the Climate Change Competence Center at the Hessian State Office for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology, the Advisory Board for Urban Design in Marburg, the Advisory Board for Building Culture in Düsseldorf, and the Future Alliance for Social Cohesion in Hesse.