Roel Wolters is formed by his training as a landscape architect as well as his education in forestry and nature engineering, developing sustainable solutions for climate change, diminishing natural resources, deforestation and urbanisation.

He started his professional career in 1998, focussing on GIS analysis and large scale landscape design as well as on inner-city green infrastructure and public space design. Relevant projects include the design of new floodplains of the river Rhine, planning of a 100 hectare natural forest and grazing landscape near Eindhoven, development of strategies for regional infrastructural hubs near Amsterdam and a regional study for the urban region ‘stedendriehoek’ and river delta of the ‘IJssel’ river.
 
In 2004 he obtained his master degree in landscape architecture at the academy of architecture in Amsterdam. He has been working as a landscape architect / project manager on several concrete design projects such as the transformation of a former coalmine ‘Grube Reden’ in Germany. This 125 hectare area is to be transformed in to a modern campus surrounded by parks, biomass production fields and water retention gardens running on geothermal wastewater.

Since 2011 his work is also focussed on sustainable urban planning and landscape design in Asia. Here he worked as a project architect and creative director of a Sino-Dutch co-operation on floodplain designs, wetland parks, agriculture parks and eco-resorts. In 2015 he was invited as guest teacher by the University of the Arts in Nanjing, China, where he organised the workshop: ‘the lost water structure of Nanjing'. The workshop was a quest for creative designs or reinterpretations of Nanjing’s lost water structures; focussing on the benefits of water in public space and the awareness and importance of water in the city. Roel is also a guest teacher / examiner at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam.