Whether you are a prospective PDF looking for a position at UBC or a current UBC PDF seeking the next step in your career, this section provides valuable information to help you advance.
Becoming a PDF at UBC
Eligibility
Postdoctoral research fellowship eligibility can be found in UBC Policy AP10, Postdoctoral Fellows. In order to be eligible for a postdoctoral fellowship, a postdoctoral fellow generally must be within 5 years of being awarded a PhD or within 10 years of being awarded a M.D. or D.D.S. degree.
First Steps
The first step in finding a PDF position at UBC is to search the research interests of individual faculty members to locate a potential supervisor. Faculty members can be contacted directly to discuss potential PDF appointment opportunities, and applications can be made directly to faculty members.
Postdoctoral appointments at UBC are managed through individual faculties and departments. The Postdoctoral Fellows Office does not accept applications nor are we involved in the hiring process.
Post a Position
If you are a UBC faculty, department/unit, or laboratory and are interested in posting a position, please refer to the Job Ads page on the G+PS Faculty & Staff portal. Positions can be cross-posted to a number of job search websites, including EurAxess and LinkedIn. For additional information, contact the PDFO.
UBC Postdoc Opportunities
UBC PDF Postings
While most PDF positions at UBC can by found by contacting a faculty member directly, some positions may be posted on individual faculty websites. Please visit Faculty Career Opportunities for a comprehensive list of links to UBC's faculties. Postdoctoral Fellowship positions may also be posted on UBC's Faculty Careers Workday portal.
The following faculty members have indicated to us that they are actively looking to attract Postdocs.
Show Faculty Interested in Postdocs
Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Behavioral Finance, Unstructured Data & Machine Learning in Finance
Research Interests: Substance Use, Addictions, Identifying, characterizing and developing interventions for high risk emergency department patients, Evaluating optimal naloxone dosing in ultra-potent opioid overdoses, Developing approaches to emergency department screening for opioid use disorder, Evaluating buprenorphine/naloxone standard dosing and microdosing interventions
Potential project areas:
Clinical and public health interventions to decrease overdose risk (opioid agonist therapies, monitoring innovations, naloxone)
Epidemiologic analyses of high risk populations' characteristics and outcomes
Qualitative analyses of patient and healthcare provider experiences with substance use care
Use of artificial intelligence to identify populations at risk
Research Interests: algorithms, optimization, convex geometry, and graph theory
Research Interests: applied measurement and modeling research, psychological measurement, theoretical and qualitative issues in instrument development, psychometric latent variables models
Research Interests: Cosmology, Science and Knowledge
Potential project areas:
A wide range of topics within observational and theoretical cosmology
Research Interests: comparative politics; ethnic politics, public policy, and the politics of development
Research Interests: Mathematical Analysis, Differential Equation, Global and Non-Linear Analysis, Mathematical physics, Nonlinear partial differential equations, Nonlinear waves, Topological solitons
Potential project areas:
Mathematical analysis (e.g. energetics, stability and dynamical behaviour) of topological solitons in ferromagnets.
Mathematical analysis (e.g. energetics, stability and dynamical behaviour) of solitons of nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
Mathematical theory (e.g. well-posedness, long-time behaviour) of geometric dispersive equations.
Research Interests: Transcultural Studies, Artistic and Literary Theories, Literary or Artistic Works Analysis, Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges, German Language Cultures and Literatures, Transnational Literatures, Visual Arts and Literature, European Studies, Literature and Sciences, Literature and Migration, Narratives of Belonging
Potential project areas:
Literature and migration; literature and visual arts; critical European Cultural Studies; gender, race, ethnicity; diversity and super-diversity; social studies approaches to literature; postmigration studies; narratives of belonging; avant-garde studies; exile studies; art and bioart performances; biopolitics; images of the body; Indigenous studies; practical approaches to decolonization;
Online Career Resources
After your first position at UBC, you may move to a PDF or faculty position at another university. Postings external to UBC may be found at the following websites:
- Euraxess
- FindAPostdoc.com
- jobRxiv
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institutes of Health
- Nature Careers Canada
- New Scientist Jobs
- Pathways to Science
- ResearchGate
- Science Careers
- TipTop Jobs On-Line - Postdoc Openings
The UBC Postdoctoral Association also maintains a Jobs page on their website.
UBC Faculty Careers
For current PDFs looking to embark on the next phase of their academic career, please visit Faculty Career Opportunities for a list of current UBC faculty opportunities. Please also visit UBC faculty websites for available positions within each specific faculty.