Education
He received his Diploma degree (with honors) in physical geography, physics, remote sensing and geoinformatics from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Technical University of Munich (geoinformatics), Munich, Germany, in 2006 and his Dr. degree (with honors) from the Faculty of Science at the University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, in 2012.
Work Experience
Since 2007 he is affiliated with the Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and since 2022 he leads the research group signatures. In 2014 he was honored with the DLR Science Award for his research on polarimetric decomposition techniques. From 2014 through 2019 and 2022 through 2023, he was and is a yearly visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, contributing to the preparation and continuation of the SMAP and SMAP/Sentinel-1 missions. Together with Prof. Dr. Entekhabi (MIT), he was awarded with the MIT-MISTI grant for global water cycle and environmental monitoring using active and passive satellite-based microwave instruments. In addition, Dr. Jagdhuber serves as an associated lecturer for the University of Jena and the University of Augsburg as well as a reviewer for several international journals and conference boards. Since November 2020 he is a habilitation candidate at the Institute of Geography within the Faculty of Applied Computer Science supervised by Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buermann and Prof. Dr. Ralf Ludwig (LMU Munich) researching on the observation of the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System (SPAS), its status and response on climate change and other anthropogenic impacts.
