Ekhlas received her B.Sc. in Biochemical Engineering, M.Sc. in Nanotechnology and Nanoscience and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Her research interest is in colloidal science and interfacial phenomena. She focused on the connection between pattern deposition of colloids from volatile liquids and the governing surface forces affect the process. Her research combined both, theoretical and experimental work, and her findings was published in a number of papers appeared in top journals: Advanced Functional materials, Journal of physical chemistry, Journal of colloid and interface science, etc. In addition, she was able to present her work in several international conferences across the world.

Ekhlas worked as a lead TA for several courses in Chemical Engineering for 7 years, where she was consistently receiving high scores from students, and she was nominated for the best TA award. Additionally, she supervised number of undergraduate students in their final research, which they perform at their last year of studies.

Ekhlas has further won the Ariane de Rothschild fellowship for her PhD studies, which is one of the most prestigious fellowships for an Israeli student.