Prof. Dr. Serena Coetzee

Serena has more than 20 years of experience, initially as software engineer on the global software development teams of desktop GIS products. Subsequently, as director and project manager at AfriGIS, she led GIS projects ranging from geospatial data collection, manipulation and maintenance to geocoding, spatial analysis and Internet GIS until she joined the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2006. At UP, she completed her PhD in 2009 and gained substantial experience in leading international research projects, development of national and international (ISO) standards, consulting projects, teaching, supervision of postgraduate students (7 PhD, 19 Masters) and mentoring early career scientists. Currently, she is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology.