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Kiana Karimi

Kiana is a PhD candidate at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She is working on unraveling watershed fluxes in an intensifying water cycle. Her research focuses on using satellite gravimetry missions to study changes in water storage, with an emphasis on climate change and hydrological extremes such as droughts and floods.

Expanding the picture: Being a female geodesist in Iran

November 29, 2024
A graphical illustration in watercolour optic with human silhouettes in different colours, and several smaller elements such as an ocean and a satellite.
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

Researchers working in STEM fields who also belong to a minority group face more challenges than their more privileged colleagues. Take Maryam Mirzakhani for instance; she was the first woman and the first Iranian to receive the Fields Medal. But along that path, she quietly overcame a lot of barriers on her journey- from being a child during the Iran-Iraq war to educational inequalities and the u ...[Read More]