Timo Balz

Timo Balz (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He received the Diploma degree (Dipl.-Geogr.) in geography and the Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) in aerospace engineering and geodesy from University Stuttgart, Stuttgart, in 2001 and 2007, respectively. From Fall 2001 to 2007, he was a Research Assistant with the Institute for Photogrammetry, University Stuttgart. Between 2004 and 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar with Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University. From 2010 to 2015, he was an Associate Professor for radar remote sensing with LIESMARS. Since 2015, he has been a Full Professor with LIESMARS. Since 2021, he has been the Vice-Director of the International Academy of GeoInformation, Wuhan University. He has authored and coauthored more than 150 scientific articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings. His research interests include surface motion estimation with SAR, data visualization, SAR geodesy, and the use of SAR data to support archeological prospections. Dr. Balz is a member of the editorial boards of Geo-Spatial Information Science and the Journal of Digital Earth. Since 2016, he has been the Chair of two ISPRS Commission I Working Group on SAR from 2016 to 2022 and again from 2022 to 2026. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine and Remote Sensing.