Lara Pajewski received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering cum laude from Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy, and the PhD in Applied Electromagnetics and Electrophysics Sciences from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. From 2004 to 2008 she worked in the Applied Electronics Department of Roma Tre University as a Technician, in the Laboratory of Applied Electromagnetics; from 2008 to 2016 she worked in the Engineering Department of Roma Tre University as a Researcher in Electromagnetic Fields. Since November 2016, she is an Associate Professor of Electromagnetic Fields in Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications. She was recruited in this position via a special procedure for winners of high-level EU projects ('chiamata diretta').
From April 2013 to October 2017 she was the Chair, Grant Holder scientific representative and administrator of COST Action TU1208 “Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar,” involving more than three hundreds experts from academia and industry, from 28 COST Countries (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Macedonia, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom) and from Albania, Armenia, Australia, Colombia, Egypt, Hong Kong, Jordan, Israel, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Ukraine, and United States of America. From September 2017 she is the President of TU1208 GPR Association, a non-profit international network on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) founded as a follow up of COST Action TU1208. Moreover, from September 2017 she is the Editor-in-Chief of Ground Penetrating Radar, the first peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to GPR. Since November 2017 she is the President of the Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), which is focused on developments in instrumentation, technology, methods and data handling used in all geosciences areas.
Her main research interests are in GPR technology, methodology and applications, integration of GPR with complementary non-destructive testing methods, and full-wave electromagnetic modelling of complex scenarios. She is also interested in electromagnetic pollution and radiation protection, and in science management.
At Sapienza University, Lara Pajewski holds the "Antennas" course for the Laurea in Information Engineering (Bachelor's Degree), the “Ground Penetrating Radar” course for the Laurea Magistrale in Electronic Engineering (Master Degree), and the "Numerical modelling and simulation of electromagnetic problems with open-source finite-difference time-domain software" course for the PhD in Information and Communication Technology. At Roma Tre University, she held for twelve years the “Laboratory of Microwaves and Antennas” course for the Laurea in Electronic Engineering (Bachelor's Degree) and for three years the “Electromagnetic Instrumentation" course for the Laurea Magistrale in Communication and Information Technology Engineering, Electronic Engineering, and “Bioengineering (Master’s Degrees).