Javanbakht was first graduated with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Shahid Beheshti University in 1996. She earned her first PhD in physical chemistry from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2002. Her first master's thesis was in physics. She moved to the University of Montreal to continue her postdoctoral research work in engineering and nanotechnology. She has studied and earned master's at Université du Québec à Montréal: in molecular biology in 2011 in Philosophy in 2016.