Nirvana Meratnia is assistant professor at the Pervasive Systems group at the University of Twente. She obtained her BSc and MSc in Software Engineering and Geoinformatics, respectively. After receiving her PhD in 2005 on moving object data management, she joined the Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems (CAES) group and later on the Pervasive Systems (PS) group, as a researcher.

Her research interests are in the area of distributed data processing and reasoning in wireless sensor networks, smart and collaborative objects, ambient intelligence, context-awareness, spatial and spatio-temporal data mining, moving object databases. 

Currently, she is involved in three national projects, namely IOP-Gencom Go-Green (on Greener house through a self-learning, privacy-aware user-centric energy-aware wireless monitoring and control system), PointOne FREE (on developing energy management mechanisms for wireless sensor networks), and STW SeaSTAR (on underwater monitoring platform), as well as two EU funded projects, namely CLAM (on collaborative embedded networks for submarine surveillance) and GENESI (on green sensor networks for structural monitoring).

Previously she has been actively involved in four EU IST funded projects, namely CoBIs (on collaborative smart business objects), Embedded WiSeNts, e-SENSE (on on distributed data processing and reasoning in wireless sensor networks), and SENSEI (on Future Internet). On the national scale, she has been working on the BSIK Smart Surroundings project on ambient intelligence, which ended successfully in 2009.