Full professor) in the Department of Electronics Engineering. He is a research coordinator in the Image and Signal Processing (ISP) group. He has been Visiting Researcher at the Remote Sensing Laboratory (Univ. Trento, Italy) in 2002, the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen, Germany) in 2009, and as Invited Professor at the Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2013.