Milad Niroumand-Jadidi earned a joint Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy, and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2017. Since 2017, he has been a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Remote Sensing for Digital Earth (RSDE) unit of the Digital Society Center at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy. Dr. Niroumand-Jadidi has received several international awards. Among those, he has been awarded a DLR-DAAD fellowship for spending three months (May−August 2022) as a visiting scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He received the Best Young Author Award from the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) in 2021. Furthermore, Dr. Niroumand-Jadidi received the best paper award from SPIE Remote Sensing conferences for three years in a row (2015-2017). He is also a recipient of the award for potential long-range contribution to the field of optics and photonics from SPIE (The international society for optics and photonics) in 2016. Moreover, he is a recipient of Alexander Goetz Instrument Support Award 2016, which gave him access to a field spectroradiometer during his Ph.D. research. Dr. Niroumand-Jadidi has published about 15 peer-reviewed articles in top journals and presented numerous papers at international conferences. His main research interests include the development of methods and applications for remote sensing of inland and coastal waters from optical data.