Hajnsek Irena
Professor
Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Irena Hajnsek has been Professor of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich since November 2009. She concurrently heads the Polarimetric SAR Interferometry research group at the Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center – DLR, Germany. Her research interests focus on electromagnetic propagation and scattering theory, radar polarimetry, SAR and interferometric SAR data processing techniques, and environmental parameter modelling and estimation. She received her Dipl. degree (Honors) in 1996 from the Free University of Berlin, Germany and the Dr. degree (Honors) in 2001 from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Professor Hajnsek has been the science coordinator of the German satellite mission TanDEM-X since 2010. She served as the Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in 2012. Since 2013, she has been a member of the IEEE GRSS AdCom and was elected vice president of the IEEE GRSS Technical Committees in 2016.
Research Interest
Irena Hajnsek has made important contributions to methods of applications of satellite SAR data. Her main research interests are in electromagnetic propagation and scattering theory, radar polarimetry, polarimetric SAR interferometric data processing techniques and environmental parameter modeling and estimation.
