Research Coordinator

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University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn's distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning. As an employer Penn has been ranked nationally on many occasions with the most recent award from Forbes who named Penn one of America's Best Large Employers in 2023. Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home for work and play. The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more. Posted Job Title Research Coordinator Job Profile Title Research Coordinator Job Description Summary We are seeking a Research Coordinator to support collaborative neuroinformatics research between the laboratories of Drs. Nishant Sinha and Erin Conrad. This position is embedded within a highly data-intensive, multi-investigator research environment at the Center for Neuroengineering & Therapeutics (CNT) and the Division of Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics. The Research Coordinator will be jointly mentored by Dr. Sinha and Dr. Conrad and will contribute to building reproducible data infrastructure for multimodal neuroinformatics research. This is a challenging position that requires exceptional organization, precision, and follow-through. The coordinator will provide day-to-day operational support for datasets spanning EEG/iEEG, MRI, DWI, fMRI, and associated clinical metadata collected across multiple institutions and neurological disease populations, with a primary focus on epilepsy. The role involves helping organize heterogeneous datasets across servers, cloud platforms, and institutional systems; tracking data derivatives; maintaining detailed documentation; and supporting regulatory compliance under multiple IRB protocols and data use agreements. The position requires a high level of accountability, organization, communication, and teamwork. The coordinator will assist in maintaining a comprehensive master inventory of datasets, documenting where data reside, how they are backed up, which processing pipelines have been executed, and what derivatives have been generated. They will coordinate data transfers from external institutions, follow up persistently to obtain missing or incomplete data, and help verify that incoming datasets meet required structural and metadata standards before integration into research workflows. In addition to data organization and compliance tracking, the coordinator will run and monitor standardized computational pipelines (e.g., iEEG-recon, FreeSurfer, diffusion reconstruction, fMRI preprocessing), and document outputs in a reproducible manner. Some comfort with Linux environments, command-line tools, and basic scripting in Python or MATLAB is desirable. This role operates at the interface of clinicians, engineers, trainees, and external collaborators. It requires strong communication skills, the ability to work across teams, and comfort engaging external institutions to ensure timely data sharing and compliance documentation. The coordinator will also contribute to the development and maintenance of standard operating procedures (SOPs), support data preparation for manuscripts and grant submissions, and help maintain high standards of data integrity across projects. The ideal candidate is highly structured, proactive, detail-oriented, technically comfortable, and able to manage multiple parallel projects without loss of rigor or documentation quality. This position is particularly well suited for highly motivated post-baccalaureate or master's-level candidates seeking immersive research experience prior to pursuing advanced training (e.g., Master's, PhD, MD, or MD-PhD programs). Research Coordinators are expected to engage actively in the scientific mission of the laboratories, including participation in weekly lab meetings; presentation of project updates and findings; assistance with manuscript and grant preparation; and direct contribution to scientific research efforts, where appropriate. We anticipate a minimum commitment of two years, subject

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