Pooja Agarwal

Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. (she/her, @RetrieveLearn) is a cognitive scientist and Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she teaches psychological science to exceptional undergraduate musicians. Drawing on her combined 20 years of experience as a researcher, public school teacher, and college professor, Dr. Agarwal shares practical evidence-based resources for thousands of educators around the world in her book, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning, and on her website, RetrievalPractice. Her award-winning research on how students learn has been published in prominent academic journals; featured in The New York Times and NPR; and funded by the National Science Foundation. She received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.