Hanifeh has a PhD in Bioengineering from Trinity College Dublin. She has conducted research in several European universities before she started working with research policy and funding. Hanifeh has worked as special advisor at the largest public funder of research in Sweden with a specific focus on national and international research infrastructures, including e-infrastructures. She has been the Swedish delegate in several large-scale European RI's, such ESRF, Euro-XFEL and PRACE. As Sweden is the host of European Spallation Source, Hanifeh has also been working with the Swedish commitments around ESS as well as the national synchrotron infrastructure, MAX IV. E-infrastructures for research is another focus area for Hanifeh where she has been the co-chair of European Open Science Cloud (2019-2021) and the Swedish delegate in the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Last year, Hanifeh was asked by the Ministry of Research and Education in Sweden to join a Commision of Inquiry on the governance, organisation and financing of research infrastructures. This Commission is part of the legislative process in Sweden when the government wants to make larger reforms; it submitted its report to the minister of research and higher education in July 2021. Today, Hanifeh is Vice-President of Computer Science at the RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden and is working closer with the industry needs, including test and demonstration facilities for Cybersecurity, AI and green data centers.

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