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, wearable computing, and cyber physical systems. 

Currently, she is involved in two 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), 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 (on cooperating embedded systems for exploration and control featuring wireless sensor networks), e-SENSE (on distributed data processing and reasoning in wireless sensor networks), and SENSEI (on Future Internet). On the national front, she has been working on PointOne project FREE (on developing energy management mechanisms for wireless sensor networks) and BSIK project Smart Surroundings (on ambient intelligence).