Irada Boyukaga Amiralieva was born in 1967 in the city of Guba. In 1984-1989 she studied at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Azerbaijan State University (now – Baku State University), and in 2003 she completed the full course of the retraining education of the Azerbaijan Teachers' Institute majoring in psychology.

Since 2010, she started working as a senior researcher at the Department of Theoretical Problems of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education (later Teacher Training Curriculum) of the Institute of Educational Problems of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Currently working as a leading researcher at the Scientific Secretariat of the Institute of Education of the Azerbaijan Republic.

In 2015, I.B. Amiralieva defended her dissertation on the topic: “Formation of tolerance among students of higher schools” and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

She conducts effective research in the field of moral education of students, optimization of the educational process, the formation of tolerance among young people, and initial pedagogical training. I. Amiralieva is the author of the monograph “Formation of Tolerance in Higher School Students”, the textbook “From the History of Pedagogical Thought” and the curriculum of the same name, and one of the co-authors of the textbook “Theory and History of Pedagogy”.

I. Amiralieva has published more than 70 scientific articles and conference proceedings.

She made lecturers on the issues she studied at a number of republican and international scientific conferences, and put forward useful proposals for improving higher education and the educational process in universities.

I.B. Amiralieva actively participates in the public life of the institute, in the discussion of research works and dissertations.