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Professor Samiha Ouda received her BSc. from Cairo University in 1982 (Agricultural Economy Department), Egypt and her MSc from Ain Shams University in 1993 (Agronomy Department), Egypt. She received her PhD in 1998 from Iowa State University, USA (Crop Physiology and management), and was appointed as professor in 2009. Professor Ouda has been working in the Agricultural Research Center in Water Requirements and Field Irrigation Research Department; Soils Water and Environment Institute; in Egypt for 28 years. She has won four prizes: two of them local, the third one from International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID-CIID) in 2015 and the fourth one from The Arabic Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) in 2018. She published 94 research papers, 50 book chapters and 4 books on irrigation water management, modeling, crop simulation, agro-climatology, climate change impacts on crops and its water requirements. Professor Ouda has supervised 4 Master and PhD theses on simulation models and climate change.