Dr. Franz J. Meyer received a degree in Geodetic Engineering and a D.Eng. from the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Since October 2008, he has been with the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, where he currently holds the position of a professor of radar remote sensing. His work includes studies on the ionospheric and tropospheric effects on SAR and InSAR, (In)SAR data analysis, and integrating SAR into disaster monitoring workflows. Since 2014, he has also been the Chief Scientist of ASF, where he is responsible for interactions with the growing SAR user community, the generation of new value-added products, prototyping of on-demand services, and outreach. Meyer has published more than 150 publications, five of which received best paper awards. He was awarded the IEEE GRSS GOLD Early Career award in 2011, the Terris and Katrina Moore Prize in 2014, a NASA/USAID SERVIR Collaboration Award in 2019, and the IEEE GRS Education Award in 2024.