Kim Calders received the BSc and MSc degrees in bioscience engineering from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE) in 2006 and 2008, respectively, the MSc degree in remote sensing from University College London (UK), in 2010, and the PhD degree in LiDAR remote sensing from Wageningen University (NL) in 2015. From 2015 until 2017 he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the National Physical Laboratory and the Department of Geography, UCL (UK). He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Marie-Curie Fellow at Ghent University from 2017 until 2021. Since October 2021, he is an Associate Research Professor of Earth Observation & Terrestrial Ecology at Ghent University (100%). He is a member of the Q-ForestLab (Laboratory of Quantitative Forest Ecosystem Science) research group at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering where he leads the team on laser scanning. He also holds a 10% Advisory Position on the Forest-Human-Machine Interplay Flagship (UNITE) at the University of Eastern Finland.