Dr.-Ing. Jessica Hemingway

• Sustainable transformation of cities
• Urban acupuncture
• Green infrastructure (micro greenspace)
• Climate change adaptation
• Local government decision-making
• Action planning
• Environmental psychology

2017 
Environmental Science, Dr.-Ing, Dresden Leibniz Graduate School (DLGS) - Dresden University of Technology (TUD)

2008
 City and regional planning, Master of Arts, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, U.S.A

2006
Psychology, Bachelor of Arts, SUNY College at Buffalo

June 2019 – current
Senior Researcher in the IOER research area “Landscape, Ecosystems and Biodiversity”

2007-2008
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), Master’s Student Intern

2008
Office of Energy Services & Sustainability, The Ohio State University

Society for Urban Ecology Conference, joint session with Martina Artmann “Soul and the City – interweaving our inner and outer nature for nourishing posthuman cities” July 2025

Invited lecture for the International Postgraduate Course on Environmental Management for Developing Countries (EM48) “Urban environmental acupuncture as a tool to support

Nature-based solution implementation June 2025

Co-presentation with Patrycia Gerhard from the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation IOER Forum Online January 2025

Educational Outreach for high school students: What is urban environmental acupuncture and how can it contribute toward future cities? @ IOER/VHS "Local community college" March 2024 (annual event)

Invited Presentation: “Sponge City Dresden” Promoting biodiversity: Urban environmental acupuncture: An approach to expanding small green spaces @ Friends of the Earth (BUND Dresden, Germany Kick-off September 2023

Impulse Lecture: Sustainable cities as it relates to greenspace @ HTW Dresden, Summer School Sustainable Business September 2022

Keynote: Urban Environmental Acupuncture (UEA): An innovative and collaborative strategy to generate small scale green space @ IOER Annual Conference 2021: Space & Transformation

Guest Lecture: The Future of Cities: Planning for Green Space in Dense Urban Areas @ U.S. Consulate General Leipzig "Transatlantic Innovation Week" Roundtable discussion April 2021

Social media campaign interview: Innovation spotlight, U.S. General Consulate Leipzig, April 2021

IOER Science Dialog: Co-presentation with Joseph Fiksel (Virtual Event) July, 2021

Parental leave replacement between research data center and my research area – assisting in the development of a research data center since June 2025

Since 2024-IOER representative for the Society for Urban Ecology 

Organization of the IOER Conference 2024 “Space & Transformation: Living in Harmony with Nature”

Mentoring both PhD and Master’s students

2024 & 2025- leading the TUD seminar Module “Landscape and Open Space Planning (UWMRN2.5) “Urban Ecology”

2010-2013
Dresden Leibniz Graduate School, Full Doctoral scholarship

2008
American Planning Association Clintonville Sustainability Plan, Outstanding Project Award

2006
Ronald E. McNair Scholar Award, Upholding the Ideals of a Scholar

2004
McNair Scholars Program, Research scholarship

CICADA4CE - Efficiency of the ClImate Change ADAptation management by integration of ecosystem services and smart social approaches in Central European cities

SALUTE4CE - Integrated environmental management of SmAL Green Spots in FUncTional Urban ArEas

SPOT - Social and innovative Platform On cultural Tourism and its potential towards deepening Europeanisation