Prof. Stefani received his B.A., in biochemistry, from the University of Iowa, and his Ph.D., in neuroscience, from the University of Virginia. He taught for a year at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA, before continuing on to a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at the Yale University Medical School. He became a member of the Middlebury faculty in 2006, coming from a research faculty position in the Neuroscience Department at the University of Pittsburgh.