Benedikt Herz is a teaching assistant at the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism. He studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). During and after his studies, he worked in various architectural firms in Basel, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. In addition to his work at ISU, Benedikt works as an architect. He is one of the founders of Studio FGGH, which won the Europan 17 competition in Munich.