Dr. Daniela Stroppiana has been a researcher at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council, Italy) at the Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente (Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment) (IREA CNR) since 2004. She completed her PhD studies in 2005 at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is responsible for IREA's activities in the ESA Fire_cci, H2020 FirEUrisk, and LIFE Modern NEC projects. She has published more than 50 papers in various journals and serves as chair of the EARSeL Forest Fires Special Interest group. Her teaching disciplines include remote sensing, wildfire monitoring, and Validation methodologies.