Sidra Ijaz Khan

Sidra joined the Wildfire Analytics team in 2020 and is a PhD scholar in Forest Engineering & Natural Resources at the School of Agriculture (ISA), University of Lisbon. Sidra holds an MSc dual degree under the Joint Masters Erasmus Mundus Medfor scholarship program (2015-2017) from the University of Padova, Italy and Karadeniz Technical University Turkey; as well as a BSc in Environmental Sciences from University of Punjab, Pakistan. Sidra co-founded a student-based volunteer environmental society called GreenMinds. She is a GlobalUGrad and MEDFOR alumni, a former UNFCCC, and University of California Berkeley intern. 

Sidra's research focuses on wildfires and community protection planning.