Serves as a liaison between research teams, departmental leadership, institutional committees, and executives to ensure scientific alignment and effective communication, and ensures team members are appropriately trained in the responsible and effective use of analytic platforms, digital tools, and research systems. Leads and oversees complex research and field-based studies, designs and applies original methods and analytical approaches, interprets and synthesizes research findings, and drives continuous improvement of research methods, processes, and workflows to enhance scientific quality, efficiency, and impact.