She graduated from the Kharkiv State Polytechnic University, Ukraine, and worked for the Centre for Energy Saving Process Integration (CESPI) at NTU KhPI, which was founded following the program for British Council Training and Academic Link, where she did her Ph.D under the supervision of Professor Leonid Tovazhnyianskyy. In 2005, she joined Professor Petro Kapustenko in the AO ‘Spivdruzhnist-T’ Engineering Company, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Both CESPI and AO ‘Spivdruzhnist-T’ had close relations with the Department of Process Integration at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, and the Centre for Process Integration and Intensification―CPI2 at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. In 2014, Professor Arsenyeva was awarded her D.Sc from NTU KhPI.