José Antonio Sobrino is the president of the Spanish Association of Remote Sensing, member of the Advisory Group for the LSTM mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), member of the scientific committee of the French-Indian TRISHNA mission, member of the Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESA), coordinator of the CEOS Working Group on Calibration & Validation - Land Product Validation Subgroup and coordinator of the RNOT “Red Nacional de Observación de la Tierra” (National Network for Earth Observation). He is also the president and founder of the International Symposium of Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing, as well as the 2018 IGARSS Scientific Committee, among others.

As an Earth Physicist specialised in Remote Sensing, Sobrino’s research focuses on the study of the changes our planet undergoes, which are analysed using Remote Sensing satellites and the digital processing of the images they provide. He has made more than 300 publications in high-impact scientific journals, he is lead researcher on more than 60 projects funded by Spain, the European Union and the European Space Agency, and he has supervised 20 doctoral theses.

José García-Montalvo

José García-Montalvo is a full-time professor of Applied Economics at the Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Economics with Extraordinary Prize (1987) from the University of Valencia, First National End of Degree Award (1988, Ministry of Education and Science) and PhD in Economics from Harvard University (1993), he is currently the head of the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University.

He has published thirteen books and more than a hundred articles in academic journals. He specialises in econometrics, economic development, the youth labour market and housing economics.