Neda Barghi studied fisheries engineering in Persian Gulf University-Iran. She pursued her master’s at the San Carlos University (Philippines) and received her PhD from University of the Philippines-Diliman. She studied adaptive processes of exogenes through comparative transcriptomics and genomics analysis of Conus during her PhD. During 4 years postdoc she worked on the genomics of thermal adaptation in Drosophila. Since September 2020, she has held an independent group leader position at Vetmeduni (equivalent of Assistant Prof.) where she studies polygenic adaptation using experimental evolution. Neda Barghi has organized several international workshops on polygenic adaptation and is vice head of the Institute of Population Genetics.