Hubertine Rose Éholie was born in Burkina Faso, then part of the French colony of Ivory Coast, on 23 May 1934.
[4] Éholie taught at the Lycée classique d'Abidjan [fr] before a long career at the University of Abidjan.
Her specialisms were in crystallography, electro-magnetics, glasses, the silver-arsenic-selenium system, semi-conductors and ternary compounds.
[5] She wrote an article in 1988 for a Canadian International Development Agency and the Third World Academy of Sciences conference entitled "The role of women in the scientific and technological development of the third world: the case of Cote d'Ivoire".
[6] She was a critic of the gender gap of women in academia in the Ivory Coast, particularly in the sciences.