Matin Miryeganeh grew up in north Iran next to Caspian Sea. She got her Bachelor and Master degree in two of top national universities in Iran with full academic scholarship from "Ministry of Education", and in 2009 she was granted a PhD scholarship from Japanese government and moved to Japan to conduct a PhD in plant phylogeography and plant population genetics at The University of Chiba. She then moved to Kyoto University for 2.5 years postdoctoral program in 2013. Matin then moved to Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), for her current postdoc position where she was rewarded a fellowship from Japan Society of Promotion of Science (a very competitive fellowship and grant from Japanese government). Matin is a plant evolutionary ecologist and (epi-) geneticist and she is interested in finding the molecular mechanisms behind stress tolerant trees and modeling them to help plants in the face of climate change. Throughout her academic career, she has been fascinated by the ecology of plants, in particular how plants respond to environmental changes through phenotypic plasticity and molecular change. Currently, she studies the genomics and epigenomics of stress tolerant mangrove tress and is looking into how these plants sense and respond to stressful environmental signals, cyclic signals, and how these responses contribute to local adaptation. Matin is also an athletic runner and is training to run a marathon in next Olympics.