Dr. Maryam Afkhami graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Water Resources Engineering and Management, University of Tehran in 1400. She was a member of the Faculty of Civil Engineering’s Outstanding Talents. The topic of her doctoral thesis was “Increasing the Capacity to Adapt to Water Scarcity Using Social-Hydrological Systems Modeling in the Context of Social Learning,” which she defended with honors. Also, the topic of her master’s thesis was “Evaluating the Performance of Distributed and Integrated Hydrological Modeling of Water Balance,” which she also defended with honors. Her areas of study and research include water resources governance, social hydrology, ecohydrology, hydrodynamics, systems dynamics, data science and data mining, and topics related to machine learning. In these fields, she has published more than 20 domestic and international scientific research articles. In addition to her fluency in French and English, Dr. Afkhami has over 15 years of teaching experience in higher education and research, and has also served as a referee for prestigious journals and conferences. For the past two years, she has been working as an advisor to the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad in the field of smart development and the observatory of this ministry. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Water and Agricultural Governance at the Faculty of Governance. Along with these, Dr. Afkhami also conducts Quranic research and Arabic language learning.