Dr. Elagroudy is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering as well as the director and founder of Egypt Solid Waste Management Center of Excellence at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. She has won the National Graduate Student Paper Award for her Ph.D. conducted at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, from Canadian Geotechnical Society. She has been selected as the L’Oreal UNESCO Arab Fellow for 2013. She is also a member of the Global Young Academy as well as a steering committee member to establish Egypt Young Academy of Science.

She has published several journal papers and book chapters and serves as a reviewer for several key journals. She is currently engaged in several research grants in the field of solid waste management and waste to energy. For 14 years, she has coupled research experience with industrial work with National and International counterparts. She serves as a solid waste expert at Chemonics Egypt Consultants and has been involved in several projects in solid waste and hazardous waste management, water and wastewater networks, and treatment plants.