Sonia studied cellular and molecular biology as her bachelor degree and completed her master’s in medical microbiology at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2015. After graduation, she worked as a research assistant and was involved in clinical projects which resulted in a couple of publications.

Sonia joined Dr Fullerton’s research group in 2018 to commence her doctoral studies. Her PhD thesis, which she submitted in 2022, was titled "Environmental, genetic and epigenetic contributors to the risk of bipolar disorder" and employed analyses of a cohort of young people at high familial risk of bipolar disorder. Sonia's thesis studies were focused on identifying genetic and epigenetic contributors to bipolar disorder, as well as examining the role of stress and other potentially important environmental factors in contributing to risk of mental illness.

Since graduating Sonia has continued in the Fullerton group as a postdoctoral fellow.