Maryam Mehrnezhad is a Reader at Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), UK, joined in September 2022. Before that, she was a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Secure and Resilient Systems (SRS) group, Newcastle University, UK, and a Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2022. Between 2016 and 2022, she was a tenured trackResearch Fellow (Research Assistant), at Newcastle University, UK.

Maryam has a PhD in Computing Science (2013-16, funded by Newcastle University, UK), an MSc in Information Security (2008-11), and a BSc in Computer Engineering (2004-08), both at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran. She has studied at the Iranian National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents High School (SAMPAD, 2000-04).