Vanya Stoycheva

Vanya Stoycheva has an interdisciplinary background in Geography and Landscape Ecology. She is currently working as an assistant professor (junior) at the Applied Geoinformatics section in the Department of Geography, National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NIGGG-BAS). She is also a PhD candidate in Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology at the same institute. Vanya is a young researcher who has been actively involved in several scientific projects, focusing on ecosystem services (ES) (MAIA, SELINA, TransWILD) and has co-authored 12 indexed scientific papers. Her research interests focus on mapping, assessment, modelling and geospatial analyses of ES in different ecosystems and scales.