Jérôme Benveniste received his PhD in Oceanography from Space from the U. of Toulouse, France, in 1989. After a Post-Doc in space data assimilation in ocean models at MIT, USA, he moved to the European Space Agency. He has been at the ESA Earth Observation data centre near Rome, Italy, from 1992 to 2023, where he was in charge of the ERS-1, ERS-2, ENVISAT, CryoSat, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-6 radar altimetry data exploitation and interacted with ESA Principal Investigators for R&D activity.