Gerhard Krieger (Fellow, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.) and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) (Hons.) degrees in electrical and communication engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, in 1992 and 1999, respectively.,From 1992 to 1999, he was with the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, where he conducted multidisciplinary research on neuronal modeling and nonlinear information processing in biological and technical vision systems.

Since 1999, he has been with the Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Weßling, Germany, where he started as a Research Associate developing signal processing algorithms for a novel forward-looking radar system employing digital beamforming on receive. From 2001 to 2007, he led the New Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions Group which pioneered the development of advanced bistatic and multistatic radar systems, such as TanDEM-X, as well as innovative multichannel SAR techniques and algorithms for high-resolution wide-swath SAR imaging.

Since 2008, he has been the Head of the Radar Concepts Department which currently hosts about 50 scientists focusing on new SAR techniques, missions, and applications.

He has been serving as a Mission Engineer for TanDEM-X and he made also major contributions to the development of the Tandem-L mission concept, where he led the Phase-0 and Phase-A studies.

Since 2019, he holds also professorship with Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.

He is the author or a coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, nine invited book chapters, about 500 conference papers, and more than 20 patents.,Prof. Krieger received several national and international awards, including the two Best Paper Awards from the European Conference on SAR, the two Transactions Prize Paper Awards from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, and the W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Board of Directors.

In 2014, he served as the Technical Program Chair for the European Conference on SAR and as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing since 2012.

He was elected as member of the Euorpean Academy of Engineering in 2014.