In 2002, Richard Staba received his Ph.D. in neurobiology from UCLA investigating the spatiotemporal properties of high frequency oscillations and single neuron firing patterns in mesial temporal structures of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. He did his postdoctoral research training with Daniel Barth, Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in Boulder studying the neurophysiology of vibrissa stimulation-evoked fast network oscillations in non-primate somatosensory cortex. In 2005, he joined the UCLA faculty as Assistant Professor and is currently Associate Professor in Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine.