Dr. Maria Rashidi is currently the team leader of the Structural Engineering and Health Monitoring (SAHM) team at Western Sydney University and has been the chief investigator and project manager of several research and consulting projects. Her specialized field is Civil Engineering, with a focus on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Decision Support Systems (DSS). She possesses extensive research capabilities in the area of health monitoring of bridges and other civil infrastructure assets, utilizing advanced technologies, such as drones, sensor networking, laser scanning, artificial intelligence, and digital twinning. She is the author and co-author of over 100 scholarly publications, on a wide range of topics in the areas of civil and infrastructure engineering and asset management. She is also a member of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council, Women on Boards (WoB), Institute of Public Work Engineers Australia, etc. She has been the finalist of the research impact competition in 2016 and 2023, representing the School of Engineering Design and Built Environment (SoEDBE). She obtained the school award for researcher of the year through industry partnership in 2021, the award for mid-career researcher of the year in 2022, and the award for researcher of the year through national and international collaborations in 2023. She also received the esteemed Western Ventures Impact Prize at Western Sydney University's Research Impact Competition in 2023.