Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez

Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ingeniero (M.S.) and Doctor Ingeniero (Ph.D.) degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Technical University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From 1998 to 1999, he was a Predoctoral Grantholder with Space Applications Institute, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy. Since 2000, he has been leading the Signals, Systems and Telecommunication Group with the University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, where he has been a Full Professor since November 2011. His research interests include microwave remote sensing for inversion of biophysical parameters, polarimetric and interferometric techniques, SAR imaging algorithms, and applications of radar remote sensing in agriculture and geophysics. Dr. Lopez-Sanchez was the recipient of the Indra Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis about radar in Spain in 2001. From 2006 to 2012, he was the Chair of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. He has coauthored more than 100 papers in refereed journals and more than 150 papers and presentations at international conferences and symposia.