OpenGeoHub EO-council Summer School 2025

Paco Lopez-Dekker ( was born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 1972. He received the Ingeniero degree in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1997, the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, in 1998, under the Balsells Fellowship, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, in 2003, with a focus on clear-air imaging radar systems to study the atmospheric boundary layer.,In 2003, he joined Starlab Barcelona, Barcelona, where he was involved in the development of GNSS-R sensors and techniques. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, where he taught courses on signals and systems, signal processing, communications systems and radiation, and guided waves. From 2009 to 2016, he led the SAR Missions Group, Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, Weßling, Germany, with a focus on the study of future synthetic aperture radar (SAR) missions, including the development of novel mission concepts and detailed mission performance analyses. He has been a faculty member at the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Department, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology. Since March 2025 he is Professor in Radar Satellite Systems and Earth System Observation. He was the lead proposer and currently principal investigator of the Harmony mission, ESA's 10th Earth Explorer Mission, which is expected to be launched towards the end of 2029.