Monika Kuffer

Monika Kuffer is Professor at the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences as well as at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente. Her research focuses on sustainable development, in particular poverty and deprived areas, living quality, and economic development in urban/rural environments using remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and AI-based methods. She co-chairs IDEAMAPS, an international network focused on deprivation mapping, and co-leads several research projects on urban deprivation and the environment (IDEAtlas,  SPACE4ALL, CityNext). She is part of DynEO4Slums, which is developing space-time dynamics of slums and vulnerable communities exposed to multiple hazards. She was the project director of two grants on capacity strengthening for gender-responsive and sustainable urban development (IDeAMapSudan) and developing a training curriculum for community data collectors DATA4HUMANRIGHTS, Nigeria). She is a Steering Committee Member of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, the Dutch representative of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL), SIG chair for Global South, and a member of the Steering Committee of EO for Sustainable Cities and Communities Toolkit.