Mohammed Dabboor

Mohammed Dabboor (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in geomatics engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing from the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, in 2010. After completing the Ph.D. degree, he was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow with the Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Government of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, until February 2015. Following his post-doctoral studies, he worked as a Term Research Scientist with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, AL, USA, until August 2015. Since September 2015, he has been a Research Scientist with the Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Government of Canada. His research focuses on the analysis of fully and compact polarimetric SAR imagery and spaceborne SAR mission design. He has served as a Mission Advisor with European Space Agency’s Mission Advisory Group (MAG) of the SEASTAR EE11 candidate mission. He is an active member of various science teams and working groups, including Canadian Space Agency (CSA) User and Science Team of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) and Canadian Science Team of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. In addition, he is a member of Canadian Science Team of the International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission. He also represents Canada in the International Group on Earth Observations (GEO)—Climate Change (CC) working group. Dr. Dabboor received several awards, including the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Award, the Helmut Moritz Graduate Award, and Canadian Geophysical Union Geodesy Section B est Student Paper Award in 2007.