Mila Koeva is a senior Associate Professor (ius promovendi) in “3D city digital twins based on geospatial technologies for improved land management and urban planning” at the University Twente, International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation ITC, The Netherlands. She has a PhD on “3D modelling in architectural photogrammetry” from the University of Architecture, Civil engineering, and Geodesy in Sofia. She also holds an MSc. degree in Engineering (Geodesy) from the same institution.  

Her expertise includes geospatial and remote sensing data processing and fusion using innovative methods and user engagement.  She is working on 3D modelling and Digital Twins in support of resource management and decision-making for cadastral and urban planning applications, among others.

Her career includes ten years of working as a photogrammetric specialist and head of the photogrammetry department (www.gis-sofia.bg) with the main aim of producing accurate cadastral and topographic maps and three years of work in a private organization (www.mapex.bg) leading three EU projects related with geodetic, cadastral and photogrammetric activities.

Currently, she is leading Digital Twin Geohub in UT and is part of several European projects.  She was a Project Coordinator/Leader of its4land, a multidisciplinary European Commission Horizon 2020 project involving 8 academic and private-sector partners and 6 countries in Europe and Africa. Due to her scientific activities, she has been selected to have an active part in international professional organizations, chairing working groups and organizing scientific events, e.g. chairing ISPRS WG IV/9 on Digital Twins, FIG WT 7 on AI4LA, etc. She is regularly invited to give invited talks or to be the keynote speaker at international events, e.g. Gi4DM and Urban Geoinformatics 2022,  3D GeoInfo 2021, UASG2021, GATE Big Data, FIG Cmmision7, GLTN 2020, GI Forum (WWU) 2020,  etc. She is serving as guest editor for several special issues, The Photogrammetric Records, 3D Land Administration in LUP, MDPI RS4LA1, MDPI RS4LA2, MDPI RS43DLA, and MDPI Digital Twins. She serves as a Reviewer Board Member of ISPRS IJGI, MDPI Geomatics, and Frontier Remote Sensing. A full list of scientific publications can be found on Google Scholar and UT-site. Besides research international project activities, she is involved in education, including lecturing, course development, and supervision of MSc and Ph.D. students. In March 2017, she was ranked as one of the TOP 3 teachers of ITC 2016 - 2017; in 2016, her student obtained 3rd place in the Copernicus Masters Competition; in 2021, her student was awarded the Best 3D GeoInfo paper,  and in 2023, her student received the second-best MSc thesis award in The Netherlands.