Postdoc Profiles

UBC is home to over 1000 postdoctoral fellows spanning over 90 departments and 10 hospitals and affiliated sites. Please note the list below is not a comprehensive list of all postdoctoral fellows at UBC.

In order to boost the visibility of UBC’s postdoctoral fellows, we invite postdocs to create a profile sharing information about your research expertise and current work at UBC. These profiles can be great opportunities to make connections with researchers in related fields, as well as to share research with a broader audience.

If you are a UBC Postdoctoral Fellow and wish to create a postdoc profile, please visit the Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Faculty and Staff Portal to create your profile.

Please contact us if you have any questions about a postdoc profile.

First Name Last Name Research Interests Faculty
Sean McBride Quantum physics, n.e.c.; high energy physics; Quantum Gravity; Quantum Information; String Theory Faculty of Science
Suman Chatterjee Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications Faculty of Science
William Fiore Astronomical and space sciences; Astrophysics; Radio Astronomy; Pulsars; Gravitational waves; Pulsar Timing Arrays Faculty of Science
Xu Zhang Speciation (evolutionary processes); genomics; evolution and adaptation Faculty of Science
Luis Silva Life histories; Biological evolution, n.e.c.; Disease Ecology; Evolutionary Ecology; Parasitology; Microbiology and Immunology; host-parasite interactions; Ecological immunology; Virulence evolution; Tolerance evolution Faculty of Science
Gaurav Kumar Programming in operational research (including linear and nonlinear programming); Transport economics; Operations and supply chain management; Inventory and distribution logistics; Natural resource management; Operations Research; Decision Analytics; Logistics & Supply chain management; Freight Transportation Faculty of Forestry
Gilciane Ceolin Human nutrition and dietetics; Gender studies; Nutritional Epidemiology; Healthy Aging; Mental Health; social determinants of health Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jiamin Wu Nanomedicine; Other natural sciences, n.e.c.; Medical and biomedical engineering, n.e.c.; Drug delivery, needle-free delivery of biologics Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jasmin Baby Medical virology Faculty of Science
Zakir Hossin Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Maternal and child health; Social and perinatal epidemiology; Life course epidemiology Faculty of Medicine
Adi Ferrara Health equity; Environmental, developmental and social factors of youth health; Eradicating health disparities in marginalised populations; 2SLGBTQ+ youth health and healthcare access Faculty of Applied Science
Vicky Li Cancer progression and metastasis; Molecular and cell biology; Integrins; Breast cancer; Cell signaling; Mouse models; Chick embryo models; Invadopodia; Cancer invasion and metastasis; Neuroblastoma; GD2 Faculty of Medicine
Jessica Dawson Neurodegeneration; Human Genetics; Huntington disease; Genetic Modifiers; Sequence diversity; Triplet repeat disorders Faculty of Medicine
Amber Grant Political geography; Environmental policy; Community planning; urban forests; Environmental justice; community stewardship; Sustainability Faculty of Forestry
Tejinder Kaur Tissue Engineering; human skin equivalents; animal-free methods Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Thomas Rennie Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy; Galactic astronomy; CMB Foregrounds; Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME); Radio foreground surveys Faculty of Science
Anastasiia Gitlina Natural sciences; Material Sciences; Organic chemistry; Luminescence; Photophysics; Organometallic compounds; Polymers; Emitters; Synthesis; Microelectronics; Optoelectronics Faculty of Science
Gabriela Segat Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Basic pharmacology; Applied immunology (including antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies); hematology; oncology; Inflammation; Epigenetics Faculty of Medicine
Shruti Muralidharan Electronic health (e-Health); digital health; Non-communicable disease prevention; Behaviour change Faculty of Medicine
Nazim-Dayag Sheykhkarimli Faculty of Medicine
Fabrizio Ducati Classical archaeology; Archaeometry
Juliette Engelhart Industrial relations and work relations, n.e.c.; Supply chain transparency; Blockchain technology; Governance of inter-organizational relationships Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
Elaheh Ghasemi Optimization under uncertainty (including stochastic and robust optimization); Supply Chain Management; Operations Research; Real-world Optimization Problem; Optimization under Uncertainty; Large Scale Modeling Faculty of Forestry
Ehsan Ansari Dezfouli Clinical medicine; Lipid nanoparticles and nucleic acid delivery; Cancer vaccine and drug development; Targeting delivery and organ-specific; CAR T-cell therapy; Cancer therapy and infectious diseases Faculty of Medicine
Ashutosh Singh Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Condensed Matter Physics; Solid State Chemistry; Magentism Faculty of Science
Simone Philpot Social sciences; structured decision making; social ecological systems; environmental policy; conflict analysis; decision sciences; systems theory and design Faculty of Science
Nicolas Graham Social sciences; Environmental Sociology; Global and Canadian Political Economy; Climate Change Policy; Social Networks Faculty of Arts
Katherine (Katie) Koralesky Sociology and related studies; Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Humane animal treatment; Agricultural biotechnology; Emerging technologies in agriculture; Responsible innovation; Farmer views on animal welfare; Public perceptions of animal welfare; Institutional ethnography; Animal welfare law and policy; Animal sheltering and protection Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Zoe Maylin Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Molecular Biology; Drug discovery and development; Biomarkers Faculty of Medicine
Sabrina Draude Engineering and technology; Hydrology; Water Engineering; Flood prevention; Land Use Change; Sustainable Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
Sing-Young Chen Basic medicine and life sciences; Beta-cell biology; Protein synthesis; Metabolism Faculty of Medicine
Jiamin Dai Human computer interaction; Human-Computer Interaction; Accessibility; Social computing; Aging and dementia Faculty of Science
Thomas Speak Astrochemistry; Development and applications of spectroscopic and structural techniques; Reaction kinetics and dynamics; Chemical thermodynamics and energetics; Computational chemistry; Atmospheric Chemistry; combustion chemistry; astrochemistry; origins of life; reaction kinetics; energetic materials Faculty of Science
Aref Eshkevarvakili Physical sciences; Chemical sciences; nuclear physics; Particle Physics; experimental physics; plasma physics; radiation detectors; nuclear fusion; aerospace; high energy physics; low energy physics; particle accelerators Faculty of Science
Navid Rahgozar Structural engineering; Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics; Seismic Resilience; Design of Innovative Sustainable Structures
Md Al Imran Other environmental engineering and related engineering; Biocement/ Decarbonization/mine tailings stabilization/ Bio-geo-techniques Faculty of Applied Science
MD Mohosin Rana Regenerative medicine (including stem cells and tissue engineering); Material Sciences; Polymer Chemistry; Tissue Engineering; Organ Engineering; Nanotechnology; Regenerative medicine; microfluidics; Bioengineering Faculty of Medicine
Peiman Azarsa Materials engineering; Sustainable Concrete; Recycle Aggregate; Crumb Rubber; Machine Learning; Geopolymer; Carbon Dioxide; Stormwater Management; Continuous Deflective Separator
Celia Edell Ethics in technology (e.g., digital, artificial intelligence); Ethics; Accountability; Internet Faculty of Arts
Huan Zhong Faculty of Medicine
Yue Zhang Functional materials in materials engineering sciences; Mechanical engineering; Chemical engineering; Solid-state batteries; Energy storage and conversion; Interface chemistry
Natasha Orr Medical, health and life sciences; Chronic Pelvic Pain; Endometriosis; Medical Education; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Knowledge translation Faculty of Applied Science
Uwe Toepfer Developmental genetics (including sex determination); Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Genetics, n.e.c.; Animal physiology, biophysics; Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology; Developmental Biology; Morphogenesis; Extracellular matrix; Cell mechanics; Cell signaling Faculty of Medicine
Natasha Barrett Igneous petrology; Geochronology; Planetary geology; Economic geology; Metamorphic petrology; Tectonics; Geology; Igneous Petrology; Isotope Geochemistry; Planetary Science; Platinum group metals (PGMs); Mass Spectrometry; Thermodynamic Modeling; LA-ICP-MS; TIMS; Economic Geology; Olivine chemistry; Subduction systems; Xenoliths; Ophiolites; Mafic-ultramafic cumulates; Mantle peridotites; Lunar anorthosite mapping; Mafic Granulites; Zircon U–Pb, Lu–Hf; Re–Os system; Oxygen isotopes Faculty of Science
David Adams Geomorphology; Fluvial geomorphology; Fluvial hydraulics; Debris flows Faculty of Arts
Elizabeth Nethery Obstetrics and gynecology; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Population health interventions; Women's reproductive health; perinatal epidemiology; Midwifery and obstetrics; Diabetes in pregnancy; Contraception Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jeff Doherty Parasitology; Behavioural ecology; Animal behaviour; Insect biology; host-parasite interactions; multidisciplinary research; host manipulation; ethology; Disease Ecology Faculty of Science
Clare Killikelly Other health sciences; Psychological trauma and related clinical interventions; prolonged grief disorder; cultural contrast; psychotherapeutic intervention; e mental health Faculty of Medicine
Ming Li Inorganic catalysis and reaction mechanisms; Small Molecule Activation, Catalytic reactions Faculty of Science
Alberto Delaidelli Medical, health and life sciences; Pediatric Cancer; Brain tumors; Neurodegenerative Diseases Faculty of Medicine