Elena Donini
Elena Donini (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering, the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering, and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in information and communication technologies from the University of Trento, Trento, Italy, in 2015, 2017, and 2021, respectively.
She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Remote Sensing for Digital Earth unit of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. She collaborates with the Remote Sensing Laboratory of the University of Trento. She is a member of the scientific team working on the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) instrument, which is on board the European Space Agency (ESA) mission JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) to the Jupiter system and the scientific team working on the subsurface radar sounder (SRS) instrument onboard of the upcoming ESA mission EnVision to Venus. Her research interests are related to the automatic analysis of terrestrial and planetary radar sounder data with machine learning and deep learning techniques.
Dr. Donini received the prizes for the 2022 Best Italian Ph.D. thesis and the 2018 Best Italian Master thesis in remote sensing, awarded by the Italy Chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
Spotlight's articles
-
September 29, 2024Orbiting companiesElena Donini tells Wired Next Fest about research in the space field -
February 23, 2024FBK for Human-Centered AI8 episodes, 8 experts, 8 stories: tangible examples of the big digital transformation of Artificial Intelligence, with profound technological and social impacts. Every Friday, starting Feb. 23, on FBK channels, immerse yourself in our stories for a human-centered AI -
February 2, 2024Elena Donini selected visiting scientist by ESA ARCHIVAL RESEARCH VISITOR PROGRAMMEThe FBK researcher has been selected by an independent committee and will be spending a period at ESA in spring-summer 2024. She will develop an advanced method to efficiently select significant radargrams in large archives. The research will be applied to RIME/JUICE and SRS/EnVision subsurface radar space missions in which FBK is involved