Federica Polverari

Federica Polverari received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and communications technologies–radar and remote sensing from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. From 2017 to 2019, she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in radar scatterometry with the Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. Since 2019, she has been with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, as a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow. Her research interests include active microwave remote sensing of ocean surface winds with a focus on the characterization of extreme wind retrieval capabilities of spaceborne scatterometry using airborne radiometry and in situ wind measurements, scatterometer geophysical model function development, modeling, and characterization of the ocean surface scatterometer response.