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Abir is a hydraulic and planning engineer specializing in water and waste management and treatment. She holds a degree from the Higher School of Engineers of Medjez El Bab-Tunisia and an international master’s degree in water management and governance in the natural and agricultural environment from CIHEAM Zaragoza.
During the end-of-study internship, she participated in a project within the ESIM partnership at the research unit: Sustainable Management of Water and Soil Resources – Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. She contributed to the project by collecting and valorizing data related to the variation of nitrates in the Medjerda River through a participatory approach. Between September 2023 and July 2024, she was part of the EEAD-CSIC team working on the project “Sustainability of Irrigation Modernization: Zebra Mussel Control in Pressurized Networks and Optimization of Sprinkler Irrigation on Plot (ZEMUSPRES).”
Since July 2025, she has been a predoctoral researcher at IMDEA Agua within the Natura project. Her doctoral research focuses on hydroeconomic modeling and mathematical programming.