Hataw Jalal Taher was born in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan Region, in 1982. She received the B.Sc. degree in Biology from College of Science- Salahaddin University- Erbil in 2005 and the M.Sc. degree in Microbiology from the same institution in 2008. She joined Erbil Polytechnic University since 2008 after she spent one year as biological assistant at Salahaddin university. Her fields of research include bacteriology and Virology. She accepted in PhD program in MLT dept. in 2020-2021.finished PhD degree in 2023