Petra Kujawa was born in 1994 in Regina, Canada. After completing her B.A.Sc. in software systems engineering in Canada and gaining a few years of work experience in this field, she decided to follow her passion for the environment and completed a M.Sc. in Applied and Environmental Geoscience at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Since then, she has been working as a product manager in the surface water area at NIVUS GmbH.