Dr. Buffalo received her M.A. in philosophy and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego, advised by Drs. Larry Squire, Stuart Zola and Patricia Churchland. She then completed her postdoctoral training with Dr. Robert Desimone at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 2005, Dr. Buffalo joined the faculty in the Department of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and Core Faculty at Yerkes National Primate Research Center as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012. She then moved her laboratory to the University of Washington in 2013.