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 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
Research Interests: Community Health / Public Health, Behavioral medicine, Exercise psychology, Mental health, Physical activity and public health, Physical activity interventions
Potential project areas:
Physical activity and public health - intervention development and evaluation
Research Interests: Aging, Cell Biology, Neurodegenerative diseases, Proteasome, Protein Degradation, Protein Folding, Proteomics, Proteostasis, Ubiquitin, Yeast Genetics
Potential project areas:
The main lab focus is protein quality control and how misfolded proteins are triaged within the cell. In the next years, we want to establish several new projects and here are some examples:
- Identification of protein quality control pathways mediating rare genetic diseases in human.
- Reconstitution of the quality control machinery in vitro to better understand the molecular mechanism.
- Characterization of the Nedd4/Rsp5 quality control pathway in mammalian cells.
- Development of new proteomics approaches to determine client repertoires of chaperone proteins.
- Characterization of the formation of heat stress granules.
- Characterization of changes in the protein homeostasis network upon aging
Research Interests: Ancient Greek natural philosophy, Aristotle's ethics, Ethics and global poverty, Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies
Potential project areas:
Aristotle's ethics; ancient Greek ethics; history of natural philosophy
Research Interests: Genetic and molecular basis of adaptation, Plant genomics, Chromosomal structural variation, Crop improvement and bioengineering, Wild sunflowers ecology and evolution, Cannabis diversity and domestication
Potential project areas:
Genetic basis of adaptation in wild sunflower species
Characterization of adaptation genes/haploblocks
Cannabis genetics and genomics
Use of wild relatives for crop improvement
Development of genomics techniques
Research Interests: Development, Social protection, Care work, Gender equality
Potential project areas:
Gender and development; social protection; care economy
Research Interests: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Quantitative MRI, Brain Disorders, resting state functional MRI, Myelin Water Imaging, Arterial Spin Labelling, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Fractal based analysis, Concussion, Diagnostic Imaging, Epilepsy, Seizures, Traumatic Brain Injury, Open Science, Biomedical Engineering, Rett Syndrome
Potential project areas:
Neonatal Brain Imaging
Rett Syndrome
Fractal Analysis of fMRI Signals
Cerebrovascular Health
Cerebral Metabolic Rate of Oxygen (CMRO2) Mapping by Combining Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) and Quantitative Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Imaging (qBOLD)
Concussions / Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries
Using Advanced MRI Techniques FLAIR2 and QSM to Identify and Classify Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD)
Research Interests: Bone Diseases, Cerebral Palsy, Connective Tissue Diseases, Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip, Joints (Articulations), Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease, Locomotor Activity / Movement Disorders, Methodological Research, Muscle, Muscular Diseases, Musculoskeletal Deformation, Musculoskeletal Lesions and Repair, Neuromuscular Diseases, Orthopaedic Engineering, Patient Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance, Pediatric Hip Conditions, Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma, Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis, Trauma / Injuries
Research Interests: Computational biology, Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Cancer genomics, Single cell sequencing, Tumour evolution, Genomic technology development
Research Interests: Translation research, Genetics and genomics of skin diseases, Vitiligo, pigmentation diseases, eczema, Innovative therapeutic development
Potential project areas:
- Vitiligo pathogenesis and therapeutic development
- Novel melanin synthesis inhibitors
- Macrophage modulation in skin health
Research Interests: Leukemia , Hematopoiesis, Genomics and epigenomics, Noncoding RNAs, Aging
Potential project areas:
The major research focus of my lab revolves around acute myeloid leukemia, and preleukemias referred to as myelodysplastic syndromes. Within this context we are interested in various posttranscriptional mechanisms that drive these cancers, how aging increases the risk of developing leukemias, and how to potentially target genomic and epigenomic vulnerabilities.
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:
- Euraxess
- FindAPostdoc.com
- jobRxiv
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institutes of Health
- Nature Careers Canada
- New Scientist Jobs
- Pathways to Science
- ResearchGate
- Science Careers
- TipTop Jobs On-Line - Postdoc Openings
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.