He received his bachelor’s degree from University of California at Berkeley, where he worked with Dr. Bob Zucker on the regulation of neurotransmitter release, and completed his doctoral studies in Neuroscience (2017) jointly at the NIH and the University College London (UCL), where he worked with Drs. Jeffrey Smith (NINDS) and Alexander Gourine (UCL). His graduate studies were on how astrocytic networks control activities of respiratory motor circuits within the brainstem. After a short postdoctoral research with Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Dr. SheikhBahaei received Independent Research Scholar Award from the NIH Office of Intramural Research in 2019. Dr. SheikhBahaei leads Neuron-Glia Signaling and Circuits Unit at NINDS, and his laboratory is studying the cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying motor control disorders.