Veronica Gonzalez-Gambau was born in Huesca, Spain, in 1981. She received her M.S. an dPh.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the School of Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2006 and 2012, respectively. In 2006, she joined the Passive Remote Sensing Group of the Signal Theory and Communications Department, UPC, where she was involved in the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) payload on-ground characterization, in the framework of SMOS pre-commissioning activities. She also collaborated with the SMOS Level 1 software development and data analysis of the Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) instrument validation campaigns. In 2007, she was a UPC Researcher, in collaboration with the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC), Barcelona,Spain. She is currently a Research Scientist with the Institut de Ciencies del Mar-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (ICM- CSIC), the SMOS mission co-leading institution, Barcelona,Spain, where she is responsible for the advance Level 1 error correction techniques and in-orbit validation procedures. She is working on the development of algorithms for the SMOS brightness temperatures improvement, and assessing the impact of these techniques on the quality of the geophysical retrievals