Zahra BOUYA is a Moroccan space weather scientist in the Australian bureau of meteorology space weather services. She plays a key role in space weather services, serving as a space weather forecaster, a research scientist developing improved ionospheric models for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and high frequency (HF) radio applications. She graduated with a Doctorate degree in physics from Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco in 1999. She obtained her PhD in atmospheric physics from New South Wales University in 2008. She has been a space weather forecaster at the Australian space forecast centre since 2011. She collaborates with the Asia Oceania space weather alliance to join international efforts on increasing awareness of space weather and the future directions of space weather forecasting.