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.

UBC Postdoc OpportunitiesReview current openings
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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

Jacqueline Quandt

Research Interests: Neuroinflammation in damage and repair relevant to multiple sclerosis and other nervous system disorders

Yu Christine Chen

Research Interests: Energy systems, Electric power system modelling, control, and operation, Renewable energy sources, Electricity markets

Louis Maraj

Research Interests: Rhetoric, Black Studies, Digital Media, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Critical Pedagogies, Race and Racism

Eric Jan

Research Interests: Virus, Nucleic Acids, Proteomics, Antiviral innate immunity, Zika, Coxsackievirus, Enterovirus, Innate immunity, Molecular biology, Picornavirus, Protease, Protein synthesis, RNA, RNA structure function, RNA virus, Ribosome, SARS, TRNA, Translation, Virology, Virus, Virus host interactions, mRNA therapeutics

Potential project areas:

Projects include

  • elucidating virus host interactions such as antiviral innate immunity and viral proteins that modulate cellular processes
  • identifying host protein substrates by viral proteinases
  • non-canonical protein synthesis mechanisms used by viruses and cellular mRNAs
  • mRNA therapeutics

Approaches include biochemical, molecular and cell biology methods, proteomics and genome-wide deep sequencing.

Viruses that we work on:

  • dicistrovirus
  • poliovirus
  • coxsackievirus, CVB3
  • Zika
  • coronavirus
Lori Brotto

Research Interests: Mindfulness, Sexual Dysfunctions, Sexual desire, treatment of sexual concerns, women's sexual health, asexuality, digital health interventions

Potential project areas:

Eye tracking studies of women with sexual dysfunction; online RCT of mindfulness-based treatment for sexual dysfunction

Gynecologic cancer survivors and sexual health interventions

Amritpal Singh

Research Interests: single cell multiomics, single cell spatial multiomics, data integration, machine learning, biomarkers, data integration, heart and lung disease, High dimensional data analysis, Bioinformatics

Peter Loewen

Research Interests: Atrial fibrillation, Pharmacoepidemiology, Thrombosis and Embolism, Adherence to medication, Cardiovascular Diseases, Arrhythmia, Heart Failure, Stroke, Health Care Technologies, Professional Practices, Hematology, Decision Making, Clinical prediction rules, Healthcare communication technologies, Hospital pharmacy practice, Knowledge translation of evidence to patient care, Patient complexiometry, Patient decision aids, Patient education, Pharmacy practice, Prediction of stroke and bleeding in atrial fibrillation patients, Quality of care, quality drug therapy, Shared decision-making, Stroke prevention therapy, Use of mobile technology for clinical decision-making

Potential project areas:

In the above domains, to be worked out with excellent candidates. I am well funded by CIHR and have an excellent track record of mentoring MSc and PhD students. 

Alan Kingstone

Research Interests: Brain mechanisms of human perception, attention, and behaviour in experimental & everyday situations

Timothy Murphy

Research Interests: Autism, Brain imaging, Depression, Neuronal Systems, Stroke

William Lockwood

Research Interests: Cancer, Drug discovery, Genetics, Genomics, Immune response, Lung cancer, Oncogene signaling, Proteomics, Mouse models

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.