He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Science with a concentration in Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Florida in 2012. He worked from 2012-2013 as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida and then from 2013-2015 as an NINDS T332-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Comprehensive Center for Pain Research in the University of Florida Department of Orthodontics. Following his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Boissoneault joined the faculty of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology.