Sara Venafra received her master's degree in Electronic Engineering with Telecommunications Program of Study from the Politecnico of Bari in 2010. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Engineering of the University of Basilicata, and she works on applied spectroscopy topics developing Level 2 processors for the inversion of the thermodynamic state of the Earth's atmosphere through physical radiative transfer models. She is a co-investigator in various projects in the area of high spectral resolution infrared sounders from satellites (far and thermal, from 100 to 3.5 micron). She was a visiting and associate scientist at EUMETSAT headquarters. She has published her research in more than 40 publications, and she acts as a reviewer for several international journals of remote sensing, physics, and atmospheric science.