Samuel Schilling is a Remote Sensing Specialist in the area of Snow Water Equivalent at the Earth Observation Center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Munich, part of the Team Polar and Cold Regions. He is a Trained Land Surveyor and received his B.Sc. in Aviation and his M.Sc. in Environment and Renewable Resources both at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (CH). Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Julius Maximilian University Wuerzburg (D).