Career Opportunities

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 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: hearing aids, aging, audiology, hearing health, amplification

Potential project areas:

New ways of assessing hearing aid outcomes; encouraging older adults to seek and use hearing health care services; acoustic and behavioural assessment of hearing aid processing.

Communication between audiologists and patients.

Research Interests: Nanostructures (esp based on carbon nanotubes), controlled nanofabrication, electron emission phenomena, electron microscopy, modeling and simulation of nanoscale systems

Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistant bacteria, Bacterial Vaccines, Childhood infections, Epidemiology, Immune System, Vaccine Development, Vaccine immunity, Clinical trials and observational studies

Potential project areas:

The overall goal of my research is to protect children from infections by improving vaccines, vaccination strategies, and building evidence-informed policy and public health initiatives. My research program encompasses laboratory, clinical, and population-based investigations in three complementary focus areas in an innovative molecule-to-population approach.

Focus 1 - Vaccine Development. Develop new highly immunogenic vaccines and a novel vaccine platform.

Focus 2 - Vaccine Immunity. Enhance immunity in individuals by optimizing immune responses to vaccines.

Focus 3 - Vaccine Effectiveness. Improve protection in the population by clinical vaccine evaluation.

Each focus targets a different area in the vaccine cycle, but these are inextricably linked, and my experience and training across methodologies enables me to bring these together in a transformative research program. I have develop­ed the unique repertoire of laboratory, clinical and epidemiologic expertise that is required for a research program in applied, translational vaccinology that will have significant global impact for decades:

Vaccine Development. To develop new highly immunogenic vaccines and a novel delivery system that will induce robust, persistent immunity and can be used with diverse antigens to target antibiotic-resistant pathogens. I have led studies to design new vaccines against S. pneumoniae, Klebsiella and N. meningitidis, using molecular biology, bacterial genetics, microbiology, cellular immunology and animal models. I have designed immunogenic novel vaccines, including one developed to a phase 1 clinical trial. My lab is developing and evaluating pneumococcal and Klebsiella vaccines, aiming to demonstrate immunogenicity and protection in mouse models of human infection and to complete a phase 1 first-in-human clinical trial with at least one novel vaccine.

Vaccine Immunity. To enhance vaccine-induced immunity in individuals by comprehensive understanding of immune responses and optimization by modification of immune responses – towards precision vaccinology. I have evaluated antibody (Ab) and T cell responses to vaccines, including with systems biology approaches. This involved development and use of assays to measure Ab response and Ab function after immunization in humans and mice. We are investigating effects of immune setpoint on responses to new and established vaccines in children, and using mouse models to determine if responses can be improved by manipulation with adju­vants administered before vaccine Ag. If so, it would lead to a new, innovative approach to infant immunization.

Vaccine Effectiveness. To improve vaccine-induced protection in the population by evaluation of vaccines in clinical trials and observational and epidemiological studies of vaccine impact. I have led multicentre national and international phase 1-4 clinical trials and observa­tional studies to evaluate vaccine effectiveness after implementation and across the age spectrum. We assess the full population impact of new and existing vaccines on the incidence and severity of vaccine-preventable diseases, and optimize vaccine schedules for children.

Research Interests: control engineering, data-driven modeling and control, robust and linear parameter-varying control, modeling and control of floating offshore wind turbines and wind farms, modeling and control of metal additive manufacturing processes, modeling and control of solar themal systems, modeling and control of automotive engines, optimization

Potential project areas:

Floating offshore wind farm control and optimization

Control of an integrated solar thermal system

Modeling and control of metal additive manufacturing processes

Research Interests: Renaissance/early modern art and print culture, early modern landscape and eco-criticism

Research Interests: Mechanisms of memory in the brain, Anxiety, Big data, Bioinformatics, Cell types, Computation, Fear, Genetics, Modeling, Neural circuits, Neuroscience, Neuroscience of memory, PTSD, RNAseq

Research Interests: Stroke rehabilitation, Implementation science, Wearable sensors, Recovery of walking after stroke, Recovery of upper extremity function after stroke

Research Interests: Cataloguing and classification, Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.), Impacts of New Information Technologies, Information practice, Museum anthropology, Science and technology studies

Research Interests: ensuring older persons are taking medications that are a good fit, deprescribing, polypharmacy

Research Interests: musicology, music, sound studies, history, religious history, european history

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:

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.