Laboratory Coordinator

The NAIADEL Lab in the Department of Psychology within the University of Arizona’s College of Science invites applications for a Lab Coordinator I.

NAIADEL is an interdisciplinary laboratory at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, behavioral economics, and computational psychiatry. We connect computational psychology with generative AI to investigate the mechanisms of adaptive intelligence and agency across biological and artificial systems. Our research examines how people and artificial agents learn about their environment, judge what they can control, revise those judgments after setbacks, and decide when to persist, disengage, or change strategies.

We combine interactive experiments, computational modeling, and neuroscience to understand these processes and their implications for mental health and adaptive AI.

The Lab Coordinator will work closely with the Principal Investigator to support the launch, growth, and day-to-day operation of this newly established laboratory. They will build and maintain systems for project tracking, study documentation, participant workflows, IRB materials, onboarding, purchasing, scheduling, and team communication. They will also coordinate multi-sided collaborations, online and in-person studies, supporting participant recruitment, data collection, data quality monitoring, and reproducible data organization.

Depending on the coordinator’s interests and skills, opportunities may include contributing to task development, data analysis, conference presentations, and manuscripts.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

• Coordinate online and in-person studies from preparation through data collection.
• Recruit, screen, schedule, and communicate with participants.
• Prepare study materials, questionnaires, consent documents, and participant-facing instructions.
• Maintain IRB protocols, amendments, continuing reviews, and approved study documents.
• Pilot studies and monitor recruitment, completion, data quality, and protocol adherence.
• Coordinate with the PI, students, collaborators, and technical team to identify and resolve study bottlenecks.

• Build and maintain standard operating procedures, onboarding materials, study trackers, project documentation, and shared laboratory resources.
• Establish clear workflows for initiating studies, documenting variables, storing materials, tracking decisions, and closing projects.
• Maintain organized and current records across the lab’s communication, project-management, and documentation systems.
• Review workflows with the PI and recommend improvements as the lab grows.

• Coordinate laboratory calendars, meetings, deadlines, action items, and follow-up.
• Support onboarding and offboarding of students and research personnel.
• Coordinate purchasing, reimbursements, inventory, workspace organization, and access requests.
• Maintain the laboratory website, mailing lists, and internal communications as assigned.
• Assist with visits, research meetings, presentations, and community events.
• Provide the PI with concise updates on priorities, unresolved issues, and approaching deadlines.

• Maintain organized data, code, documentation, and access-control structures in coordination with the PI and technical team.
• Conduct routine data-quality checks and…