She completed her PhD in 2004, focusing on studying quantum coherent control in nonlinear optics. In 2004 she received the Rothschild Fellowship for postdoctoral studies and joined the group Prof. Paul Corkum at the NRC, Ottawa, Canada. In 2007 she joined the Weizmann Institute of Science and established a research group for attosecond science in Israel. Nirit Dudovich received the Alon award (2008), the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize (2012), the IPS Prize for Young Physicist (2012), and the Krill prize for excellence in scientific research (2013). In 2013 she received the ERC Starting investigator grant.