Dr. Monireh Faramarzi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada. She received her PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ in 2010, for which she was also the recipient of best ETH medal among all fields. She is currently leading the Watershed Science and Modelling Laboratory that involves developing and applying physical, biogeochemical, and process-based tools such as hydrological, agricultural, and climate models to study water-food security in Canadian Prairies. Through studying the Virtual Water Trade - VWT, her group and herself elaborate on trade-offs and interactions between water and land resources, crop production, and socioeconomic drivers that cumulatively affect water-food security. To date, her group has addressed subjects related to the impacts of climate change and management factors on crop yields, streamflow, floods, droughts, and more recently, on nutrients and chemical loads and transport, in relation with VWT in agricultural lands of Canadian Prairies. Her research goal is to contribute to the science of “water-food-energy and environment” nexus under an uncertain future in the Anthropocene.