Ronny Hänsch (Senior Member, IEEE) received the diploma in computer science and the Ph.D. degree from the TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 2007 and 2014, respectively. He is a currently a Scientist with the Microwave and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany, where he leads the Machine Learning Team in the Signal Processing Group, SAR Technology Department. He continues to lecture with the Computer Vision and Remote Sensing Group, TU Berlin. He has extensive experience in organizing remote sensing community competitions, and serves as the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) representative within SpaceNet, and was the technical lead of the SpaceNet 8 Challenge. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning with a focus on remote sensing (in particular SAR processing and analysis). Dr. Hänsch served as an Editor for the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) eNewsletter from 2021 to 2024, as the Editor in Chief of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters since 2024 and as Associate Editor of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing since 2022. He served as a (co-)chair of the IEEE GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion technical committee from 2017 to 2023 and has been serving as the co-chair of the ISPRS working group on Image Orientation and Sensor Fusion since 2016. He served as an organizer of the CVPR Workshop EarthVision from 2017 to 2024 and the IGARSS Tutorial on Machine Learning in Remote Sensing from 2017 to 2024.