Haïfa Ben-Romdhane is presently a visiting assistant professor to the department of Geography and Planning, and the Environment: Dynamics of Territories and Societies programme at the Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. Dr. Ben-Romdhane received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering (2016) from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She conducted her master’s studies at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and received her MSc degree in Aquatic Biosciences – Ecology, Behaviour and Observation Systems (2009). Before that, she received her BEng degree in Marine Environmental Engineering (2005) from the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia. Before joining Sorbonne University, she was a researcher at the Research Centre for Renewable Energy Mapping and Assessment (ReCREMA), Khalifa University, Masdar Campus. Before joining Khalifa University, she worked as a project manager, data processing and data quality specialist at the Military Survey Department – Bayanat for Mapping and Surveying Services, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her expertise falls in the fields of statistical methods and image processing with applications in the general fields of environmental data analysis, land use, land cover, change detection and analysis, time series analysis of environmental and climatic variables, water resources monitoring, etc. Her aspirations are to help protect the ocean and marine environments through the establishment of adaptive management plans, highlighting the role of science to provide a basis for robust decision-making against urgent problems and long-term management outcomes.