**Jos ´e Fern ´andez**

Prof. Dr. Jose Fern ´ andez was born in 1963 and received a degree (1986) and a PhD (1992) in ´ Geodesy from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He was a professor at the UCM until 2002, when he became a member of research staff of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). He is currently a Full Research Professor at the Institute of Geosciences (IGEO). His research focuses on the field of Geodesy and its application to natural and anthropogenic hazards, both in observation (using terrestrial and space techniques) and modeling aspects. His developed models have been applied, in combination with inversion methods, for the interpretation of displacements and gravity changes in volcanic, seismic, landslides, and subsidence areas. He has participated in more than 85 research projects (national, European Union, ESA, NASA, and other space agencies and international organizations), acting as a Coordinator, Responsible Investigator, or Responsible Co-researcher in about 60 of them. He is currently an editor of Scientific Reports (Nature Group), Remote Sensing, and Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Geodetic Science. He has been a part of different working groups of the International Association of Geodesy.
