Zahra Okba holds a master’s degree in environmental biology from the University Ibn Zohr, Morocco, and is currently a PhD student in Marine biology at the same institution and co-founder of AIOFAR ( Artificial intelligence in ocean farming). AIOFAR was awarded the Copernicus Masters Madrid regional prize 2022 and the third prize in farming by satellite competition in November 2020. In July 2022, the project was selected as a finalist in the emerging Mediterranean.