Merham works as an Assistant Professor at the Urban Design and Planning Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. She had been a PhD fellow at Oxford Brookes University for two years, as part of her PhD study looking into the potentials of Placemaking and Green Infrastructure in Cairo, Egypt. Merham has a great passion for research, and she strives to encourage and promote research especially from understudied contexts in the realm of landscape studies. Merham has been serving as a trustee at Landscape Research Group (LRG) since November 2021. She pursued this position for her passion about propagating Landscape Research in Egypt, the Arab Region, and Africa. She currently holds the Research Coordinator Position for LRG, coordinating the annual Research Funds. Merham also serves as an Associate Editor at the Landscape Research Journal. Additionally, she is on the editorial team for the third edition of the Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. Merham served as an assistant editor for a special issue in the Journal of Public Spaces. She has been advocating for the importance of public spaces and was among the Public Space Advisory Board (Early Career) – City Space Architecture. Merham’s research interests include placemaking, people-nature relationship, participatory climate action, landscape governance, livable public spaces, among others. She has several publications in various indexed journals. 

Merham believes in the importance of education for raising the new scholar generation. She endeavours to provide an interactive and engaging experience for her students as a means for better educational quality. She is serving as the Academic Coordinator for the Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design Master’s Program at Ain Shams University. She is engaged in developing several undergrad and post grade curricula. Merham was a research fellow at Technische Universität Berlin for two months in 2023 aiming at developing the curriculum for the IUSD MSc course. Merham is currently engaged in two research that focus on linking education and research and promotes research from Africa.