Maryam Lotfian Obtained her BSc in Geomatics Engineering from Tehran University (Iran) in 2013. In 2016, she received her MSc in Environmental and Geomatics Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) with a thesis on urban climate classification using satellite imagery. In collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HEIG-VD), she began her PhD at the Politecnico di Milano Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in October 2017. Her research focuses on challenges in citizen science projects, including participants’ motivations and data quality. She works on developing machine learning algorithms to perform automated data validation in citizen scientist projects.