Thomas Jagdhuber (S’08–M’12) received the Diploma degree (with Hons.) in physical geography, physics, remote sensing, and geoinformatics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, in 2006, and the Ph.D degree (with Hons.) in hydrology from the Faculty of Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, in 2012.,Since 2007, he has been with the Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR). From 2014 to 2019, he was a yearly Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, USA, contributing to the preparation and continuation of the SMAP and SMAP/Sentinel-1 missions. In addition, he is a Lecturer with the University of Jena and the University of Augsburg. His main research interests include physics-based multi-sensor data integration with focus on active and passive microwave interaction theory and on polarimetric techniques for hydrological, cryospheric, and agricultural parameter modeling and estimation.,Dr. Jagdhuber is a Reviewer for several international journals and conference boards. He was honored with the DLR Science Award for his research on polarimetric SAR decomposition techniques. Together with Prof. Dr. Entekhabi (MIT), he was awarded with the MIT-MISTI grant for global water cycle and environmental monitoring using active and passive satellite-based microwave instruments. (Based on document published on 30 April 2019).