Dr. Maryam Afkhami is a Ph.D. graduate in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Water Resources Engineering and Management from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, in 2021. She was a member of the exceptional talents at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. Her doctoral thesis focused on enhancing drought adaptive capacity through modeling social-hydrological systems within a social learning framework, which was defended with an excellent grade. Furthermore, her master's thesis evaluated the performance of distributed and integrated hydrological modeling of water balance, also defended with an excellent grade. Her research areas include water resources governance, socio- hydrology, ecohydrology, hydrodynamics, system dynamics, data science, data mining, machine learning-related topics, and she has published over 20 scientific research articles domestically and internationally in these fields. In addition to proficiency in French and English, Dr. Afkhami has over 15 years of teaching experience in higher education and research and has served as a reviewer for reputable journals and conferences. In the past two years, she has been working as a consultant to the Ministry of Jihad-e-Agriculture in the field of smart agriculture and the ministry's observatory. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Water and Agriculture Governance at the Faculty of Governance. Alongside her professional achievements, Dr. Afkhami also pursues Quranic studies and learning Arabic.