Serena Coetzee

Prof Serena Coetzee is Head of Resource Nexus Programme (Education) at the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) in Dresden (Germany). Before, she was Head of the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa, where she still holds an extraordinary professorship.
Serena’s research focuses on the ever-increasing volumes of geospatial data, and the management and governance challenges required to make the data available, accessible and usable. The research is of an interdisciplinary nature, combining GISc, cartography, information systems and technologies. At UNU-FLORES, she focuses on geospatial data for the integrated management of environmental resources.