Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez is an Associate Professor with the Remote Sensing, Antennas, Microwaves and Superconductivity Group (CommSensLab) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain). He has an MSc in Telecommunication Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 1993) and PhD in Telecommunication Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1998). He has experience in the development and operation of coherent and direct detection lidars, especially for atmospheric aerosol characterization.