Abbas Haghparast was born in Karbala, Iraq, in 1967 with Iranian nationality. He received a Ph.D. degree in Medical Physiology from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, in 1999. After completing his Ph.D., he moved to the Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU) in Tehran, where he established the first laboratory dedicated to “Neuromodulation of Pain and Addictive Behaviors”. Since 2015, he has been a Professor and Research Director of the Unit for Neuromodulation of Pain & Addictive Behaviors at the Neuroscience Research Center, SBMU. He is the author of more than 300 articles in national and international journals. In May 2021, he was included in the ESI Top 1% researchers list. His research interests include the interrelationship of the Reward-Pain-Stress circuits and the involvement of dopaminergic and orexinergic systems in sub-cortical areas such as NAc, VTA, LH, LC, and Hippocampus with behavioral, electrophysiological, and molecular (signaling pathways) approaches. He is one of the editorial board members of several National/Scopus and OA International Journals such as Addiction Neuroscience, and guest section editor of the Current Addiction Reports. Since 2013, he has also been secretary-general of the Iranian Neuroscience Society. IBRO also selected him as one of the IBRO Asian Pacific Regional Committee (APRC) council members for a period of three years, from January 2022.