Henrik Jan Persson received an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Luleå Technical University, Luleå, Sweden, in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Technology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden, in 2014. Since then, he has continued his research at the Division of Forest Remote Sensing, SLU, where he was appointed Associate Professor in 2019. In 2015, he spent time at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Since 2023, he has also held a part-time position as a Senior Researcher in Digitalization at the Skogforsk Research Institute. His research interests include remote sensing and digital forest inventory, with a focus on SAR, multispectral photographs, and laser scanning. These include studying evapotranspiration and forest water exchange using radar, digital sampling approaches, and mapping forest vitality. He is the founder of Geoanalysis Sweden. From 2009 to 2011, he worked in IT at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.