STUDENT FELLOWS

Maryam Shiran is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Houston, specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Her research interests include the sociopolitical impacts of climate change, especially its connection to conflict, hydro-politics, energy sustainability and computational social sciences.

Maryam received her master’s degree in sociocultural anthropology from Tehran University, Iran, where she studied social mechanisms of conflict resolution. She has worked as an energy journalist covering Middle East and North Africa as well as a data analyst for Eqlim, a startup specializing in real-time detection and analysis of sociopolitical and energy-related events across the globe. As an ISEP student fellow, Maryam is currently conducting research on air pollution in China and India.