Dr. Bouhadida is an Associate Professor in the Field Crop Laboratory of the National Institute of Agricultural Research of Tunisia (INRAT). She holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Saragosse, Spain, and an Engineer Agronomist Diploma in Plant Breeding from the National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia (INAT).

Dr. Bouhadida is responsible for chickpea breeding in the Tunisian Food Legume Breeding Program, and her work focuses on breeding for resistance to biotic stresses, especially for resistance to Ascochyta blight and Fusarium wilt as well as investigating resistance mechanisms to Fusarium wilt in chickpea.

Dr. Bouhadida is involved in several national and international projects dealing with the improvement of cereals and legumes using breeding, agronomic, and biotechnological approaches. She has contributed to several relevant scientific publications and supervised several students for their master's and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Bouhadida also received a Fulbright Scholarship in USDA-ARS/Washington State University-Pullman in 2015 and was a visiting professor twice- first in the Department of Genetics in the University of Cordoba in 2012 in Spain and second time in the International Biotechnology Research Center in IWATE in 2014 in Japan.