Essam Heggy is a Space Scientist at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California and an affiliate of the Radar Science and Engineering section of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He obtained both MSc. and Ph.D. respectively in 1999 and 2002 with distinguished honors from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Heggy’s research interests in space and planetary geophysics aim to understand subsurface water and ice occurrence and distributions in Earth’s arid regions, Mars, the Moon, Jovian icy moons, and near-Earth objects using radar techniques. He works in a wide range of space exploration projects including the Mars Express orbiter, the Chandrayaan-1, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission, the Rosetta mission, and ESA ExoMars Rover. He is also a contributing scientist to several NASA & ESA proposed planetary and terrestrial radar imaging and soundings experiments including the RIME radar on the JUICE mission to Jupiter and Envision radar for Venus. He is also a tenured Associate Professor at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France and served in several advisory roles for international agencies supporting educational and scientific reforms in the MENA area. Heggy authored more than 100 peer review scientific papers in the top-tier journals of Earth and Planetary Sciences including Science and Nature and more than 200 proceedings and abstracts in international conferences.