Zachary Daily

Research Coordinator

Zachary is a Research Program Coordinator under Dr. Fred Barrett working on a study studying the subjective effects of various psychedelics. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.S. in Neurobiology. Zachary began his career as an undergraduate researcher at the Center for Healthy Minds. After college, he worked as a research assistant in the University of Utah’s C-MIIND lab, focusing on studies related to mindfulness-based interventions for populations experiencing substance use disorder. Additionally, he collaborates with Imperial College London’s DMT research lab, assisting in the phenomenological analysis of extended DMT states. Zachary is eager to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is particularly interested in developing new models of psychedelic therapy for substance use disorders. Specifically, he aims to investigate if integrating mindfulness with psychedelic therapies could provide enhance treatment outcomes and extend the lifetime of those effects.