Gilda Schirinzi graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1983 at the University of Naples "Federico II". In the same year, she joined the Electronic Engineering Department as a research fellow. From 1985 to 1986, she was at the European Space Agency, ESTEC, The Netherlands. In 1988, she joined the Istituto di Ricerca per l'Elettromagnetismo e i Componenti Elettronici (IRECE), of the Italian National Council of Researches (CNR), in Naples. In 1992, she was appointed Head of the Electromagnetics Division of IRECE, and in 1997, she became Senior Researcher. In November 1998, she joined the University of Cassino as an Associate Professor of Telecommunications. In 2005, she became a Full Professor. Since November 2008, she has been in the Telecommunications group at the University of Naples "Parthenope". She has taught Signal Theory, Electrical Communications, Microwave Remote Sensing Systems, and Image Processing. Her main scientific interests are in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) signal processing and coding, SAR interferometry, microwave imaging techniques, and image and signal processing for remote sensing applications.