Gianfranco FornaroGianfranco Fornaro received the M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering from the University of Naples "Federico II" in 1992 and the Ph.D. in 1997.
Since 1993 he has been with IREA-CNR, where he now holds the position of Research Drector, working in the area of airborne and spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing, including SAR Interferometry and SAR Tomography. He has been Adjunct Professor in the area of telecommunications in several Universities, including University of Napoli "Parthenope".
Dr. Fornaro has been visiting scientist at Politecnico of Milan and at DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany) during the SIR-C/X-SAR mission. Since 2010 Dr. Fornaro has been also lecturer at the International Summer School on Radar/SAR organized by the Fraunhofer Institute and since 2013 at the NATO Lecture Series SET 191 and SET 235. He has been also Convener, tutorial Lecturer and Chairman of sessions dedicated to SAR in several international Conferences. He has authored more than a hundred of papers (peer-review journals and proceedings of international conferences). He received the Mountbatten Premium by the IEE Society in 1997, the 2011 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters best paper award and the 2011 best Reviewers mention of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal. Read More Read Less