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: Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Latin American Contemporary Novel and Short Story, Caribbean Literatures, Latin American literatures

Potential project areas:

Blackness in the Hispanic Caribbean.

Cultural History of Hispanic Caribbean printed media. 

Research Interests: Injury Biomechanics, Soft Tissue Biomechanics, Traumatic Brain Injury, Sleep Biomechanics, Sensors and Instrumentation, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Wearable Sensing

Potential project areas:

Please refer to simpl.mech.ubc.ca for project areas and opportunities.

Research Interests: G protein-coupled receptor pharmacology, Neuropharmacology, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience

Research Interests: inattentiveness, hyperactivity, impulsivity, psychosocial assessment and intervention, supporting children, parents, teachers. and care providers in improving mental health

Research Interests: Community Health / Public Health, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Health Policies, Lifestyle Determinants and Health, Health Promotion, Health Prevention, Statistics and Probabilities, Preventive medicine, Artificial Intelligence, Chronic Disease Prevention, Clinical Epidemiology, Dietary Assessment, Dietary Pattern Modeling, Dietetics, Machine Learning, Nutritional Epidemiology, Predictive Analytics, Preventive Medicine, Public and Population Health, Simulation

Research Interests: science and technology policy; energy policy, regulation; nuclear energy, nuclear waste management

Potential project areas:

Nuclear waste management and disposal, nuclear energy policy and regulation issues.

Research Interests: Experimental Particle Physics, Applied physics, Physics

Potential project areas:

Particle physics experiments at CERN, Geneva, TRIUMF, and the Paul Scherr Institut (Villigen, Swtizerland); advanced technology development; data analysis and machine learning projects.

Research Interests: Aging, Beta cells, C. elegans, Diabetes, Gene Regulation and Expression, Gene regulation, Genetics of Aging, Genomics, Hypoxia, Metabolism, Molecular Genetics, Mouse, Stress, Stress and Cancer, Stress responses, Toxin and Toxicant Metabolism, Transcription

Potential project areas:

We study how cells, tissues, and organisms adapt to stresses such as hypoxia, oxidative stress, starvation, heavy metal exposure, and others. We investigate these stresses and stress responses because they contribute to or even cause human pathologies, including cancers, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disorders. In this context, we are especially interested in gene regulation by the Mediator complex, an essential eukaryotic transcriptional regulator that is mutated or deregulated in human diseases (cancers, developmental disorders, etc.). Besides Mediator, we also study regulators such as Nuclear Hormone Receptors and various kinases. 
We use multiple model systems: The C. elegans model (the worm), the mouse (tissue-specific genetic KO models, especially in the pancreas), and cultured human cancer cell lines. We employ classic and state-of-the-art genetic, genomic, and molecular approaches (forward and reverse genetic screens, RNA-seq, CRISPR-Cas9, RNA interference, yeast-two-hybrid, etc.). Projects revolve around characterizing how Mediator subunits and their transcription factor partners control metabolism and stress responses, identifying Mediator:transcription factor interactions, and to identify which cellular signalling pathways these factors interact with to regulate metabolism and stress adaptation. 
For more information, see https://taubertlab.weebly.com

Research Interests: Advanced TV, Investigative Reporting, International Reporting

Potential project areas:

Investigative reporting on global supply chains

Research Interests: opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera, Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker

Potential project areas:

Wall Opera Project - Does Opera Training sculpt the brain. Does the study of opera performance change the brain function for students with learning disabilities ? Does it have positive effects for all students studying opera. If there are positive effects to be found how could this help people who have other brain disfunctions or have succombed to diseases or stokes affecting the brain?

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