Hanem Elaraby received her BSc in Physics from the Faculty of Women for Arts Science and Education - Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2009. She has been a research scientist in Plasma and Nuclear Fusion Department, Nuclear Research Center, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, since 2011, and she obtained her MSc in 2016.

Hanem's research focus is the pulsed atmospheric pressure plasma jet, the effect of Plasma jet on blood coagulation, Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Plasma, the gamma radiation, and IEC Plasma effects on lung cancer.