Ebrahimi received a BSc in Physics from the Tehran Polytechnic University (Amirkabir University of Technology) in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003 under the supervision of PPPL Director Stewart Prager.[3] She has collaborated with Ellen Gould Zweibel, Dalton Schnack (American Physical Society Fellow), and many other leading physicists.[4]