Our team
Our team is mainly formed, on one side, by engineers leading projects that require knowledge on satellite systems; and on the other side, by scientists in charge of projects that require a deeper knowledge of planet Earth challenges.

Mònica is the founder and Director of isardSAT group. As a Senior Engineer and Scientist, she also acts as R&D Director, and provides senior scientific and technical support to all isardSAT's research projects. With over 25 years of experience in altimetry, her main expertise area, she also runs some of isardSAT's altimetry projects.
Mònica Roca i Aparici
Managing and R&D Director

María José has a PhD in Environmental, Space and Universe Science and is Senior Research Scientist expert on water resources monitoring from microwave remote sensing data at isardSAT. Her application field is on remote sensing using passive and active microwave to study hydrology and climate change. She is responsible of the development and the validation of models and algorithms to retrieve geophysical variables from satellite data and technical leader of several international R&D projects. She is also a PhD thesis supervisor and occasional reviewer for some peer-review journals.
María José Escorihuela
Senior Research Scientist

Lluís is a co-founder and the Administrative Director at isardSAT. He manages all non-technical activities within the Company: HR, Finance, IT, Legal and Operations, reporting to the Managing and R&D Director. Lluís is involved in the preparation of new project proposals and brings to isardSAT his experience on R&D Project Management.
Lluís Vinyals
Administrative Director

Laia is isardSAT Group Director and Managing Director of Lobelia. She is responsible for Earth Observation Applications and Services, and Corporate Business Development.
Over the last 12 years she has worked extensively on Earth Observation with radar technologies, in the development of applications, deployment and execution of services, and has contributed as a research scientist and manager to several new satellite mission studies.
She has solid experience in technical project management and coordination of projects for ESA and the EC in the area of Space Technologies & Applications.
Laia Romero
Climate Services Director

Albert joined isardSAT Barcelona in 2011 as R&D Engineer, became R&D Director at isardSAT UK in 2014 and since June 2019 is R&D Manager at isardSAT Barcelona. He has wide experience in algorithm development for the SAR Altimetry missions. His main tasks include managing projects, designing ground processors as well as implementing and validating algorithms from L0 to L2.
Albert Garcia-Mondéjar
Senior R&D Engineer and Manager

With a 20 years' experience in Earth Observation, Ester has solid skills in managing research and operational projects as well as in coordinating ESA and EC funded projects. She is now Operations Manager at isardSAT and project manager for several projects.
Ester Vendrell
Operations Manager

Gorka is software architect. He is in charge of the design and implementation of the processing software in its operational stage, as well as serving as a link between the scientific and the software components. Also, he coordinates the development team in the Space and Technology team.
Gorka Moyano
Software Architect

Guillermo Grau is Tech Lead at Lobelia. An experienced aerospace systems and SW engineer, with technical and management experience in the satellite nav and comms domains in large European projects (ESA, EC). Background in digital signal processing (simulation and RT implementation), satellite and aircraft/RPA datalinks, and system design. As a SW engineer his main assets are isomorphic JS (using React / Redux / GraphQL, Node.js and his own tools), IPC and real-time signal processing in C/C++, dataviz (d3, Cesium), and network testing, with a strong emphasis on the user and developer experience.
Guillermo Grau
Senior Engineer

Pablo is R&D Radar Engineer at isardSAT. His main activities include the development, testing and improvement of processing algorithms for space altimetry missions, specially on the instrumental calibration. From these mission's datasets, he works in scientific applications, focussed on coastal altimetry solutions. He is also involved in project management and co-writing proposals.
Pablo García
Senior R&D Radar Engineer

Ferran is a PhD Aerospace Engineer. He has a strong background on instrumentation and data analysis for space-born gravitational wave detectors thanks to his experience in the LISA Pathfinder mission. At isardSAT, he is involved in the development and implementation of data processing techniques for SAR altimetry projects.
Ferran Gibert
R&D Engineer

Mercè joined isardSAT in January 2014 overseeing all the administrative functions in the office as Management Assistant. She directly handles financial matters such as client billing, accounts payable, payroll and banking. She is involved in the coordination and implementation of functional internal procedures and also provides administrative support to the technical team in the management of technical projects and proposal submissions.
Mercè Natividad
Management Assistant

Mark is a Software Engineer at isardSAT UK. His main responsibilities include the implementation of ground processing algorithms, and software development in Python and C++ for a range of different projects. He is also Office Director at isardSAT UK.
Mark Pattle
Software Engineer and Office Director

Stéphanie joined isardSAT in 2021 as Senior Engineer bringing with her a 20 years' experience in the processing of Earth Observation missions data. Her main activities include the specification, development, testing, and verification of altimetry data processing, with special focus on the Level 2 algorithms.
Stéphanie Urien
Senior Engineer

Alba is a mathematician and PhD in Electrical Engineering. Her expertise includes solution methods for accurate physical parameters estimation in signal-based inverse problems. She develops retracking algorithms for Level 2 processing in sea surface topography projects.
Alba Granados
R&D Scientist

Adrián has a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering. He has background on Calibration and Validation (CALVAL) thanks to his experience in the PAZ mission. His main activities include the development and implementation of data processing with special focus on the instrumental and transponder calibration.
Adrián Flores de la Cruz
R&D Engineer

Salvatore has a PhD in Remote Sensing, awarded at Surrey Space Centre - University of Surrey (UK). With a 10 years’ experience in SAR processing data, he has now joined isardSAT UK as SAR Engineer. His knowledge in SAR spans from a model-based approach for analysis of urban areas to statistical modelling and processing of Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data, and he has also good expertise with multispectral data.
Salvatore Savastano
SAR Engineer

Aida has a MSc in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering focussed on Dynamics and Controls of Spacecraft from the University of Colorado. At isardSAT, as part of the software team, her main responsibilities include the implementation of ground processing algorithms for altimetry data.
Aida Ferro Ardanuy
Software Engineer

Alex-Dídac reinforces the IT department with his experience as system administrator. He is in charge of implementing best practices, improving system security as well as data consistency, and researching new technologies to deploy at isardSAT.
Alex-Dídac García
System IT Administrator

Juan Pedro is a physicist with a Msc in Astrophysics & Cosmology. He has a PhD in Physics for his work on the data analysis of the LISA Pathfinder mission. He has a wide knowledge in data analysis, parameter estimation as well as statistical and numerical methods thanks to his background in the data analysis of space missions. At isardSAT, he develops altimetry data processing algorithms.
Juan Pedro López Zaragoza
R&D Scientist

Sergi holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering and is now a PhD student in Signal Theory and Communications. His research focusses in the evaluation, implementation and exploitation of novel processing algorithms for SAR altimetry.
Sergi Hernández
Junior R&D Engineer

Charlie has a BSc in Physics with Astronomy and an MSc in Space Engineering with a focus on Remote Sensing. As part of isardSAT UK, he works as a Remote Sensing Engineer, processing SAR and altimetry data, performing data validation, and developing methods and algorithms to extract useful information.
Charlie McKeown
SAR Engineer

Eliazar is part of the Administrative Department. His duties include liaising with the isardSAT team as well as external contacts as accountants and suppliers. He also provides support for multiple projects, meetings, travels and events.
Eliazar Lebrón
Management Assistant

Maria is a Law graduate, and has a Master’s degree in Advocacy. At isardSAT she brings her knowledge and experience concerning legal issues, adapting the business operation to the ongoing law changes. She also provides support in the day-to-day tasks of the Administration Department.
Maria Prats
Head of Legal

Gerards holds a BSc in Aerospace Engineering (UPC) and a MSc in Space Research (DTU). He is a PhD student in Remote Sensing and Planetary Science at Imperial College London. His research topics include SAR change detection and performance simulations for the future ESA M5 mission EnVision, as well as projects involving radar image processing and satellite precise attitude determination.
Gerard Gallardo
Junior Space & Remote Sensing Engineer

Lluís is a journalist specialised on environment with a Master’s degree on Territorial and Population Studies. At isardSAT, he is involved with the dissemination of some projects, and the design of specific communicative products. He is also responsible for isardSAT’s communication, as well as the website updates and social media management.
Lluís Bassa
Science Communicator

Pol has a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). At isardSAT he is involved in the development and implementation of processing algorithms of radar altimetry for future ESA missions.
Pol Villalvilla
Junior R&D Radar Engineer

Guillem is a theoretical physicist from the University of Barcelona, and completed his Master's degree in Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology in July 2022. At isardSAT, his work focusses on the development of algorithms to derive and study geophysical variables in from satellite data.
Guillem Sánchez
Junior R&D Scientist

Chris’s background is in Theoretical Physics. At isardSAT he works to develop mathematical models of the backscattered power of radar altimeters based on the physical nature of the sea surface and the radar. The models are used to aid in the design of altimeters and to build signal processing algorithms to make measurements with greater accurate.
Chris Ray
Researcher

Adrià has graduated in Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and holds a MSc in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies. At isardSAT his tasks involve the implementation and handling of processing techniques of SAR altimetry data for calibration monitoring tools as well as the analysis of inland water level and extension from altimetry data measurements.
Adrià Gómez
Junior R&D Radar Engineer

With a background as systems administrator, Santi is part of the IT department. He is responsible for generating documentation, automatising IT processes, managing cloud data, and solving IT incidents in the different corporate fields.
Santi Umpiérrez
System IT Assistant

Clara is a theoretical physicist from the University of Barcelona and completed her Master's degree in Physics of Complex Systems in July 2022. At isardSAT, she works in the development and implementation of data processing algorithms for SAR altimetry missions.
Clara Colet
Junior R&D Scientist

Martina has a BS degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). At isardSAT, she is involved in the development and implementation of processing algorithms of radar altimetry, currently working on CRISTAL mission's performance validation tool.
Martina Gallego
Junior R&D Radar Engineer

Roger is a recent graduate in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Barcelona with a programming background. At isardSAT, he is working as a Junior Software Engineer, developing and implementing algorithms for processing data from on-board microwave sensors of Earth Observation satellites.
Roger Almasqué
Junior Software Engineer

Laura is a final year student of Business Administration and Management at the University of Barcelona. At isardSAT, she is part of the Administrative Department, contributing to accounting tasks and the organisation, follow-up and management of the team's trips, meetings and events
Laura Méndez
Administrative Assistant

Ferran is a graduate in Physics and a has a MSc in Modelling for Science Engineering. In collaboration with the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), he is currently completing a PhD on the development of models and algorithms to detect sea ice thickness using satellite data.
Ferran Hernández Macià
Junior R&D Scientist

Víctor is an agricultural engineer from the University of Lleida, where he is currently pursuing a doctorate in Agrifood Science and Technology. His area of research is the improvement of fertilisation and irrigation of crops, from field watering to the return of irrigation water to the rivers, with a special regard to its impact on ecosystems.
Víctor Altés
Junior R&D Scientist

Michel graduated in 2020 in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana with a mention in antenna systems engineering and has a MSc in Telecommunication Engineering at UPC with a focus on microwave systems and remote sensing for Earth Observation. At isardSAT, he is working on instrumental calibration and some research altimetry projects.
Michel Guerra
Junior R&D Radar Engineer

Berta is a recent graduate in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona. At isardSAT, she is a Junior Software Engineer and is working on the implementation of algorithms for the processing of data from microwave imagers.
Berta Moreno
Junior R&D Scientist

Lucas has a BSc in Physics Engineering, and he is currently pursuing a MSc on Modelling for Science and Engineering. At isardSAT, his research focuses on the estimation of the snow cover in the Pyreness, with the aim to predict future water availability in the reservoirs.
Lucas López
Junior R&D Scientist