Biography

Luis Guanter obtained his degree in Physics in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Environmental Physics in 2007, both from the Universitat de València (Spain). After several postdoctoral positions in Germany and UK, he became Head of the Remote Sensing Section of the GFZ Potsdam in Germany and the Principal Investigator of the satellite imaging spectroscopy mission in 2014. Since March 2019 he is a Full Professor in Applied Physics at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in Spain, where he is leading the LARS (Land and Atmosphere Remote Sensing) group in January 2020. Since March 2022 Luis Guanter is sharing his position at UPV with a methane remote sensing scientist position at the Environmental Defense Fund. Luis Guanter has been included in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers List of the world’s most influential scientists since 2019.