Ana Vidal Pantaleoni was born in Valencia, Spain in 1970. She received the "Ingeniero de Telecomunicación" degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 1993. She spent one year at University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland, 1993) thanks to Erasmus international exchange program. In 1993, she became a Research Assistant in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. In 1995 and 1996 she was held a Spanish Trainee position with the European Space research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)-European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, the Netherlands, where he was involved in the study and implementation of software for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image processing. In 1996 she went back to the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where she held several lecturing positions, and she became Associate Professor in 2001. Her current interests are SAR data processing, SAR Speckle noise reduction and numerical methods based on Wavelet transform for microwave structure analysis.