Dr. Bahareh Heidary is a Ph.D. graduate in Mechanical Engineering of Biosystems with a specialization in Renewable Energies from Tarbiat Modares University and Master and bachelor of same field from University of Tehran. She is recipient of the National Elites Foundation scholarship award in 2015 and She graduated as the top student of her doctoral program with an GPA of 19.10 out of 20. She has been a project executive for the National Elites Foundation on "The Water and Energy Roadmap for Tehran Province," and also collaborator on the national project of "Designing, prototyping and promoting efficient and green Greenhouses, in accordance of countries climatic and ecological condition" and a research collaborator on the "Sugar Cane Harvester Production" project. Her doctoral thesis focused on "Hybrid Solar-Wind RO-MSF Desalination System," which was defended with an excellent grade. She also holds a certificate in Computer Science CS50 from Harvard University. Her research interests encompass energy governance, renewable energies, energy systems, the water-energy-food-environment nexus, desalination, manufacturing, modeling, optimization, data science, data mining, and machine learning topics. She has published over 23 ISI-indexed and national and international conference papers in these fields.