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: Critical literacies/pedagogies, Digital literacies, Identity, Multiliteracy and multimodality, Place-based literacies, Storytelling/narrative inquiry
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, Metagenomics, Biological engineering, Synthetic Biology, Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Entrepreneurship
Potential project areas:
We have ongoing opportunities for highly motivating individuals to work at the interface of microbial ecology, biological engineeing and bioinformatics across a range of basic and applied science projects.
Research Interests: Bacteria, Bacterial Vaccines, Childhood infections, Epidemiology, Immune System, Vaccine Development, Vaccine immunity, Clinical trials and observational studies
Potential project areas:
My research covers several independent, but related, areas of infectious diseases and vaccine research, including:
- Understanding vaccine-induced immunity, particular for bacterial vaccines including vaccines against Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Bordetella pertussis.
- Development of novel vaccines for pathogens of major public health importance.
- Infectious diseases epidemiology and evaluation of vaccine impact, with a particular interest in brain infections.
- Immunization in pregnancy.
I am Director of the Vaccine Evaluation Center (VEC) at BC Children’s Hospital Reserarch Institute. Founded in 1988, the VEC is an academic centre of excellence focusing on vaccine and immunization research in BC and across Canada. I am also a pediatric infectious disease specialist based at BC Children’s Hospital.
The aim of my research at the VEC is to lower the burden of infectious disease through vaccination by building an evidence base for local, national and international vaccine policy. My research program includes laboratory studies to develop new and better vaccines, clinical trials to identify how best to utilize new and approved vaccines, and population-based investigations to identify targets for new vaccines and demonstrate vaccine impact.
Research Interests: Bacterial catabolism of steroids and lignin, Biocatalyst development, Enzymes and Proteins, Metabolism (Living Organisms), Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Potential project areas:
Understanding the degradation of cholesterol catabolism by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its role in pathogenesis. Developing new therapeutics that target cholesterol catabolism. Understanding the bacterial degradation of lignin and developing biocatalysts to upgrade lignin.
Research Interests: Nursing/Health History, Gender/Women's History , Social Justice, Science and Technology
Research Interests: Romance Philology, Medieval French Litterature, Manuscript studies, History of the French language, Critical editing of medieval texts
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnography, Language ideologies, Language and identity, Migration, Language variation and change, Language contact, Creole languages
Potential project areas:
French minorities in Canada
French-speaking immigrants of Africa
Language attitudes among learners and teachers of French
Research Interests: Agencies and arms-length bodies in Canada, Public servant behavior in Canada, How citizens engage with government as part of local consultations and public engagement, Homelessness (politics, governance, policy), Local government or governance
Research Interests: Environment and Respiratory Diseases
Potential project areas:
We have several projects running at any given time (see the lab website and publications for a sense of what we do).
Candidates are matched with an appropriate project based on interest and expertise.
Our general approach is to welcome outstanding candidates (the very best) at every level of training to contribute to our award-winning team.
Research Interests: Computer systems, Software engineering, Software quality, security, and robustness, Program analysis, Adversarial robustness, explainability, and interpretability of ML-based systems, Mobile and cloud software
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.