Wieteke Willemen | University of Twente, the Netherlands

Wieteke Willemen is professor of Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystem Services. Her current work includes remote sensing-based ecosystem service mapping and monitoring, impact assessments of integrated restoration, citizen science for societal impact, in which she aims to address geo-ethics and representation in data issues. She is a (Coordinating) Lead Author of the Business and Biodiversity and Land Degradation & Restoration assessments of IPBES, Editor for the journal Ecosystem services, and a member of the Executive Committee of Ecosystem Services Partnership. She currently works at the international Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She has a PhD in spatial modelling of multifunctional landscapes from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and has worked at Bioversity International in Colombia, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy, Cornell University in the USA. She confuses people by often using her official first name “Louise”.