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: Exercise interventions, Sedentary Behaviour, Syncope, Falls Prevention, Sarcopenia, Machine Learning

Potential project areas:

Dr. Ken Madden holds the Allan M. McGavin Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of British Columbia and the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal. His lab has examined the effect of exercise interventions in older adults with Type 2 diabetes, the ability of different forms of exercise to impact arterial stiffness in subjects at high cardiometabolic risk, and the impact of sedentary behaviours on cardiometabolic risk factors. He has also examined the impact of age and diabetes on postprandial cardiovascular responses and orthostatic intolerance, and the use of bedside ultrasound to screen for sarcopenia. He is division head of Geriatric Medicine at Vancouver General Hospital, and holds peer-reviewed grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Canadian Diabetes Association. He is chair of the North American Regional Committee for the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics.

Research Interests: Water, Hydrological Cycle and Reservoirs, Drinking Water, Fresh Water, Information, Hydroelectricity, Ice and Snow, Control of water systems, Droughts, Experimental hydrology, Floods, Hydrological Prediction, Hydrology, Information theory, Mountain hydrology, Sensors, Uncertainty, Water resources management

Potential project areas:

Projects regarding new measurement techniques for catchment hydrology
Projects working on uncertainty analysis / quantification for hydrological prediction
Projects on optimal monitoring network layout / optimal expermental design
Projects on applications of information theory in hydrology and water resources

Research Interests: Behavior, Biological Behavior, Endocrinology, Neuroendocrine Diseases, Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission, Neuronal Systems, Neuroscience, Stress

Research Interests: Telecommunication networks, Computer Systems, Network Analysis (Information), Communication systems, Energy systems, Internet, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine learning, Mobile computing, Protocol design, Smart grid, Wireless networks

Research Interests: Consciousness, Subjectivity and Personal Identity, Mental Health and Society, Affective and Emotional Development, Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Personality, Emotional functioning

Research Interests: Telemetry (Remote Sensing, Radar), Space Techniques, Forestry Technology and Equipment, Plants and Forests

Potential project areas:

Application of remote sensing technologies to forest productivity and conservation issues

Research Interests: Ecophysiology, Ecosystem ecology, Climate change, Macroecology, Geophysics, Scaling, Fire

Research Interests: Semantics, Austronesian languages, Cross-linguistic variation and universals, Salish languages, Semantic fieldwork, Tsimshianic languages

Research Interests: Motivations and Emotions, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health and Society, Stress, Suicide

Research Interests: Comparative organismal biology, Evolutionary morphology, Evolutionary protistology, Marine biodiversity, Marine invertebrate zoology, Phylogenetic biology, Species discovery

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.

Current postings outside UBC