Dr. Monika Kuffer

Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer is a Professor at the Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) and at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands). She earned an MSc in Human Geography (TU Munich), a second MSc in Geographic Information Science from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Twente. Her research focuses on sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly poverty (deprivation), living quality, and economic development in urban/rural environments using remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GISs), and AI-based methods. Prof. Kuffer is also a Steering Committee Member of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), the Dutch representative of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL), SIG chair for developing countries, and a member of the Steering Committee: EO for Sustainable Cities and Communities Toolkit.