Aharonov graduated from Weizmann Institute of Science with an MSc in physics. She received her doctorate for Computer Science in 1999 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her thesis was entitled Noisy Quantum Computation.[2] She also did her post-doctorate in the mathematics department of Princeton University and in the computer science department of University of California Berkeley.[3] She was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1998–99.[4]
Aharonov has won several awards for her research work. In 2005 she was chosen by Nature magazine as one of the four "most prominent young theorists in their field", and the following year she was awarded the Creel Prize for excellence in scientific research.[5]
