Samira Pourkhajouei is a Ph.D. Student at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, School of Computer Science & I.T., University College Cork. She holds a Ph.D. from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran in Computer Algebra and graduated in 2019. She also holds a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. During her first Ph.D. she also worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair of Symbolic Computation at the University of Passau, Germany. Her current project is in the area of optimisation under preferences.