Merabti Abdelaaziz received a Ph.D. in Hydraulics from the National Higher School of Hydraulics (ENSH) in Algeria in 2018, through a collaborative project with the Higher Institute of Agronomy in Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently continuing his research in the field of drought. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Constantine from 2018 to 2020. In 2020, he joined the University of Blida, where he was promoted to Associate Professor. His research mainly focuses on hydrology, drought phenomena, drought indices, and forecasting.