Karolinska Institutet
Esmaeilzadeh began her academic career studying philosophy at Stockholm University and received her master's degree at University of Oslo. She went on to study medicine at Karolinska Institutet receiving her medical license in 2005 and her Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2011 specializing in PET-imaging and the dopamine system in the brain. Her thesis was written at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and had the title of "Towards a novel treatment of Huntington's Disease".