Green continued her education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she earned her M.Sc. in physics in 2009 and her Ph.D. in physics in 2012. Her thesis, "A Minimally-Invasive Multifunctional Nano-Enabled Approach for Selective Targeting, Imaging, and NIR Photothermal Therapy of Tumors", was supervised by Sergey B. Mirov.