Dr Salem S. Gharbia is the leader of the H2020 SCORE project. He is also a Lecturer in Water Science and a Principal Investigator at ATU Sligo. Water resources, climate change and integrated environmental systems modelling with Geographic Information System (GIS) are his main fields of interest.  Dr Gharbia has excelled and been distinguished in all his studies, and he has received many awards and grants such as Trinity College’s prestigious Ussher award for his novel PhD research. Dr Gharbia has over 40 research publications in the last five years, and he secured circa Euro 11M in research funding over the previous 5 years.