Liz Toomarian, PhD

Liz Toomarian, PhD, is the Director of the Brainwave Learning Center at Synapse School. As an educational neuroscientist in residence at Synapse School, Liz spends each day working directly with teachers, school leaders, and other researchers to better understand and improve the learning process. Liz earned a BS in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience from University of California San Diego and an MS and PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught the undergraduate course “Mind, Brain and Education.” Her research has historically focused on numerical understanding, spatial thinking, and how the brain develops associations between numbers and space, as well as implementation and methods in educational neuroscience.