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
Positions outside UBCFind positions at other institutions

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

Kevin Fisher

Research Interests: Archeological Data Analysis, Archeological Excavation Methods and Techniques, Architecture, Built environments, Digital archaeology, Dynamics of Social Transformations, Mediterranean archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Power, Social Life / Societal Life, Social interaction, Urban Spaces and Urbanity, Urbanism

Potential project areas:

Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project: http://kambe.cnrs.ubc.ca/

Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project: https://www.crane.utoronto.ca/

Philipp Lange

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Cell Signaling and Cancer, Mass spectrometry, Pediatric cancer, Personalized medicine, Post translational protein modification, Proteomics

Potential project areas:

  • translational portoemics in childhood cancer
  • advancing precision medicine in childhood cancer
  • proteolytic regulation of cell-cell communication
  • computational and experimental approaches to better understand and classify proteoforms
  • new algorithms in quantitative mass spectrometry data analysis  
Shernaz Bamji

Research Interests: Neurodevelopmental disease, Primary neuronal cultures, Synapse biology, Transgenic mouse models

Potential project areas:

genetic causes of autism and intellectual disability

Efrat Arbel

Research Interests: Law, Constitutional Law, Gender and Law, Legal and Critical Theory, Prison Law and Policy, Refugee Law, Tort Law

Hal Bradbury

Research Interests: Isotope Geochemistry, Chemical Oceanography, Reactive Transport Modelling, Carbon Cycle, Marine Sedimentary Environments, Early Diagenesis, Biogeochemical Cycles, marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

John Frostad

Research Interests: Emulsions, Physics of Soft Matter, Agricultural Sprays, Food Physics, Interfacial Rheology, Novel Instrumentation, Foams

Potential project areas:

For more information, please see: http://food.chbe.ubc.ca/opportunities/

Maxwell Cameron

Research Interests: Political Regimes (Democracy, Authoritarianism=, The State, Political Systems, Comparative Politics, Democratization, Latin America, Practical wisdom

Potential project areas:

Democratization in Latin America

Kwang Ho Kim

Research Interests: Forest Bioproduction and the BioeconomyTechnology and Innovation, Biomass conversion engineering

Potential project areas:

Biomass conversion; Lignin chemistry; Green solvents

Matthew Lorincz

Research Interests: Developmental Genetics, Genomics, Chromatin, chromatinopathies, Epigenetics, Epigenomics, Gene regulation, Neurodevelopmental disorders

Potential project areas:

  • Role of epigenetics in male and female germline development
  • Role of retroelements in gene regulation
  • Interplay between epigenetic marks and DNA methylation in the early embryo
  • Impact of the Histone H1 frameshift mutation in Rahman Syndrome (RMNS) on chromatin structure and transcription
Roger Beckie

Research Interests: Mine drainage, physical hydrogeology, groundwater geochemistry, groundwater contamination

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.