Olga Dombrowski was born in Berlin, Germany. She graduated with a BSc in Environmental Science and Hydrology from Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg in 2017, including a one year stay at the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACH) and an internship at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). She continued her studies in Belgium with a MSc in Water Resources Engineering at KU Leuven from where she graduated in 2019. Since January 2020 she is a PhD candidate at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany. Her research within the H2020 ATLAS project focusses on the use of real-time data and land surface modeling with CLM5.0 to build an irrigation scheduling service in apple orchards of the mediterranean region.