Begüm Demir is a Professor and the founder head of the Remote Sensing Image Analysis (RSiM) group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin and the head of the Big Data Analytics for Earth Observation research group at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). She performs research in the field of processing and analysis of large-scale Earth observation data acquired by airborne and satellite-borne systems. She was awarded by the prestigious ‘2018 Early Career Award’ by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society for her research contributions in machine learning for information retrieval in remote sensing. In 2018, she received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her project “BigEarth: Accurate and Scalable Processing of Big Data in Earth Observation”. She has been an IEEE Senior Member since 2016. Before joining to TU Berlin, she was an Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2017 and an Associated Professor from 2017 to 2018 at the University of Trento, Italy. From 2010 to 2013 she worked as a Post-Doc researcher at the Remote Sensing Laboratory in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. She received her B.S. degree in 2005, M.Sc. degree in 2007, and Ph.D. degree in 2010, all in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from Kocaeli University, Turkey.