Liza was a PhD student in POND, joint with the Section on Neurodevelopmental Neurogenomics at the US National Institute of Mental Health. She used multimodal neuroimaging data to understand how spatial patterns of altered brain networks emerge across multiple phenotypic features in both neurogenetic and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disorders.

Liza defended her PhD in February 2025 and secured a postdoc at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.