Dr. Craig Harris Richard Ph.D

Brand Ambassador

Dr. Craig Harris Richard has been researching Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) since 2014.  His research has led to the first published brain scan of ASMR activity, the largest ASMR database, the Simon & Schuster ASMR book ‘Brain Tingles’, the popular ASMR podcast ‘Calm History’, the top ASMR website ‘ASMRUniversity.com’, and a TED Talk about ASMR with over 2 million views.

Dr. Richard’s expertise in ASMR has resulted in consulting projects with Netflix, PBS, Jet Blue, the first ASMR Super Bowl commercial, the first Bob Ross traveling exhibit, as well as, being featured by the CBS Sunday Morning Show, CBS Inside Edition, NBC Today Show, NPR (5x), New York Times (9x), Washington Post (4x), Wall Street Journal (2x), Forbes (2x), Business Insider (2x), Huffington Post, Denver Post, NY Post, Boston Globe, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek (2x), Popular Mechanics (2x), Psychology Today, Discover Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, New Scientist, Oprah Daily, National Geographic (2x), GQ, Men’s Health, Women’s Health (2x), Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Shape, Self, Prevention (2x), Cosmopolitan, Goop, Reader’s Digest, Rolling Stone, MTV News, ABC News, CBS News (2x), NBC News (2x), Fox News (3x), CNN, CNET, Associated Press, and Al Jazeera.

Dr. Richard received his Ph.D. in physiology from Albany Medical College, completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and is currently a professor of biomedical sciences at the Bernard J Dunn School of Pharmacy at Shenandoah University in Virginia.