Hajnsek, Irena, Prof. Dr.

German Aerospace Center
Mircowaves and Radar Institute
Radar Concept Department
Head of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (Pol-InSAR) Research Group
Email: irena.hajnsek@dlr.de

 

Since November 2009 Irena Hajnsek is Professor of the Chair of Earth Observation at the Institute of Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich. At the same time she is head of the Polarimetric SAR Interferometry research group at the German Aerospace Center, Microwaves and Radar Institute. Her main research interests are in electromagnetic propagation and scattering theory, radar polarimetry, SAR and Interferometric SAR data processing techniques, environmental parameter modelling and estimation. In 1996 she received her diploma degree (Honors) from the Free University of Berlin, Germany and in 2001 the doctoral degree (Honors) from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. From 1996 to 1999 she was at the Microwaves and Radar Institute (DLR-HF) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In the frame of the EC-TMR Radar Polarimetry Network, Irena Hajnsek was from 1999 to 2000 for 10 months at the Institut d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes of the University of Rennes 1, France and for 4 months with the company Applied Electromagnetics (AEL) in St. Andrews, Scotland. In 2005 she was a guest scientist at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. She is the science coordinator of the German satellite mission TanDEM-X.

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