Tom Rune Lauknes (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. in physics from the University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, in 2011. His major field of study is satellite and airborne remote sensing, with a specific focus on synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) applications in the Arctic and polar regions. Since 2005, he has been with Norut, now known as NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway, where he holds the position of Senior Research Scientist, based in Tromsø, Norway. He possesses extensive experience in using terrestrial, airborne, and satellite radar and optical remote sensing methods, for monitoring landslides and periglacial landforms, such as rock glaciers, extending to polar research, particularly in monitoring Arctic sea ice and calving glaciers. He has contributed significantly to the InSAR Norway project. His past roles include being a Visiting Researcher with Radar Interferometry Group, Stanford University, in 2007 and 2008, a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin in 2010, and a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2014.