Nuria Duffo

Nuria Duffo (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1996. During her doctoral studies, she focused on numerical methods for the characterization of radar targets. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the analysis of electromagnetic problems using the boundary element method. Since 1998, she has been actively involved as a Researcher in the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in the framework of several European Space Agency (ESA) contracts, directly or as a subcontractor of companies (EADS-Casa Espacio, Madrid, Spain, Deimos Engenharia, Lisboa, Portugal). Her expertise includes, among others, the fundamentals of interferometric radiometry, aperture synthesis, image reconstruction, and calibration algorithms, as well as hardware specifications and payload characterization. She has been a Telecommunications Engineer with UPC since 1990, where she has been a Professor since 1992, being first an Associate Professor and then a Full Professor since 1997.