Dr. Mohammed Suhyb Salama is Associate Professor of Remote Sensing of Water Quality and Water Resources Management at the Department of Water Resources in the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Dr. Suhyb Salama earned a PhD degree in Civil Engineering (2003) and an MSc degree with Great Distinction (magna cum laude) in Hydraulic Engineering (1999) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and a BSc degree in Civil Engineering (1993) from Damascus University in Syria. Dr. Suhyb Salama was a consultant in geo-information and remote sensing applications at the Spatial Division Leuven (SADL) in Belgium before he joined ITC in July 2007. Dr. Suhyb Salamas current research and teaching focus on Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling of Water Quality and interactions with the Ecosystem and Ecosystems responses to Climate and Water Cycle Variations. His area of expertise includes Remote Sensing, Radiative Transfer, Water Quality, Hydrology, Numerical Inversion and Optimization, and Stochastic Error Analysis. Dr. Suhyb Salama lectures in Water Resources Research from Space, Radiative transfer and Atmospheric Correction, Remote Sensing of Water Quality and observing the Hydrological Cycle from Space. In addition he is a Coordinator of block 3 and module 12, 14 and 15 in the MSc program of Water Resources and Environment Management at ITC. From 2007 to 2013 Dr. Suhyb has supervised 30 MSc research topics, 20 of which were on water quality. Dr. Suhyb Salamas current activities within the Netherlands automated monitoring program (IN PLACE: Integrated Network for Production and Loss Assessment in the Coastal Environment) has led ITC and NIOZ (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) to develop a Generic method for Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val). The results have changed the treatment of Cal/Val within the accuracy assessment of satellite observed geophysical variables in land and water. The scalability of Dr. Suhyb Salamas research is reflected through publishing in other research fields related to land surface Hydrology. He is supervising four PhD candidates in diverse research fields covering a wide scope of Hydrology: from water quality to Hydrometeorology and Water Footprint. He has published 38 research articles in journals contributed as author/co-author.