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 Sort ascending | Research Interests | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Hyung-Suk Daniel | YOO | Neurodegeneration; Age-related macular degeneration; Subretinal fibrosis; Retinal Degeneration; Neural repair; Axon regeneration | Faculty of Medicine |
| Hao | Yin | Environmental impact assessment; Environmental determinants of health (including environment-gene interactions); Environmental Health; Climate change; Clean energy policy; Environmental justice | Faculty of Medicine |
| Bowen | Xiao | Developmental psychology | Faculty of Education |
| Amy | Wotherspoon | Ecological impacts of climate change; Ecosystem function; Global change biology; Forest ecology; Silviculture; Climate change; Dendrochronology | Faculty of Forestry |
| Alexandra | Williams | Cardiovascular System; Cranio-Encephalic and Spinal Cord Trauma; Echocardiography; Cardiac Function; Spinal Cord Injury; Cardiac Catheterization; sex differences | Faculty of Medicine |
| Yunzhou | Wen | Chemical sciences; Electrochemistry; X-ray spectroscopies; Electrocatalysis; In-situ electrochemical spectroscipies; Reactor engineering | Faculty of Science |
| Oliver | Wearing | Autonomic nervous system; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Zoology, n.e.c.; Animal physiology, circulation; Animal physiology, metabolism; Animal physiology, environmental stress; Animal physiology, exercise; Animal physiology, thermoregulation; Cardiovascular physiology; Hypoxia; Surgery; Preclinical models; Translational medicine; Spinal Cord Injury | Faculty of Medicine |
| Jun | Wang | Faculty of Medicine | |
| Hamidreza | Tohidypour | Artificial Intelligence; Telecommunication Systems; Communication; Deep learning and machine learning; Video processing; Computational photography; Computer Vision; Light field imaging | 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 |
| 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 |
| Abhishek | Soni | Carbon capture engineering; Material Science, Self-driving experiments, machine learning, clean energy, CO2 electrolysis | Faculty of Science |
| Ashutosh | Singh | Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Condensed Matter Physics; Solid State Chemistry; Magentism | Faculty of Science |
| Abhishek | Sharma | Particle physics, experimental; Particle Physics | Faculty of Science |
| Walter | Sena | Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Cognitive Neuropsychiatry | Faculty of Medicine |
| Sandeep | Saxena | Bone, skin and cartilage science; Stem cell biology; Regeneration; Fibrosis; Regenerative medicine | Faculty of Medicine |
| Katerina | Rnic | Clinical psychology; Cognitive Control; Cognitive Vulnerability; Stress Reactivity; Stress Generation; Inflammation; Cortisol; Emotion Regulation | Faculty of Arts |
| Ryan | Reynolds | Urban and regional planning; GIS; Natural Hazards; Risk Mapping; Risk Communication; Agent-based modelling; Vulnerability Indicators; Resilience Indicators; Recovery Indicators; Household Emergency Preparedness | Faculty of Applied Science |
| Md Mahamud-ur | Rashid | Medical, health and life sciences; Virology; Influenza virus; Zika virus; Dengue Virus; HIV virus; Blood Cloting; Proteomics | Faculty of Medicine |
| 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 |
| Navid | Rahgozar | Structural engineering; Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics; Seismic Resilience; Design of Innovative Sustainable Structures | |
| Simone | Philpot | Social sciences; structured decision making; social ecological systems; environmental policy; conflict analysis; decision sciences; systems theory and design | Faculty of Science |
| Natasha | Orr | Medical, health and life sciences; Chronic Pelvic Pain; Endometriosis; Medical Education; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Knowledge translation | Faculty of Applied Science |
| Paul Onkundi | Nyangaresi | Water quality engineering; Natural sciences; Ultraviolet light for water and air disinfection; Optoelectronic devices (VCSELs, UV LEDs) design and fabrication; Design and fabrication of UV LED water disinfection systems; Climate change adaptation | Faculty of Applied Science |
| Andreas | Novotny | Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); marine ecology; Oceanography; eDNA; Food webs; zooplankton; Salish sea | Faculty of Science |
| Elizabeth | Nethery | Obstetrics and gynecology; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Population health interventions; Women's reproductive health; perinatal epidemiology; Midwifery and obstetrics | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Negin | Motamed Yeganeh | Cognitive sciences; Neuropsychology; Neuropsychological Assessment; Cognitive development; Executive Functioning; Psycholinguistics | Faculty of Arts |
| Willis | Monroe | Science and Knowledge; Religious Systems; Assyriology; Cuneiform; Akkadian; Babylonian; Sumerian; Hittite; Ugaritic; History of Astronomy; History of Astrology; Archaeology | Faculty of Arts |
| Matthew | Mitchell | Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Environment and Habitats; Environment and Society; Environment Dynamics; Environment Management and Protection; Landscape Evolution and Management; Agriculture; Ecosystem services; Landscape ecology; Biodiversity conservation; Socioecological systems; Urban ecosystems; Agricultural ecosystems; spatial ecology; remote sensing; Human-environment interactions | Faculty of Science |
| Zoe | Maylin | Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Molecular Biology; Drug discovery and development; Biomarkers | Faculty of Medicine |
| Ming | Li | Inorganic catalysis and reaction mechanisms; Small Molecule Activation, Catalytic reactions | Faculty of Science |
| 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 |
| Jane | Komori | Canadian history; Asian Canadian history; Indigenous history; settler colonial studies; labor history; environmental history; critical race and ethnic studies; race and capitalism; Ecology; resource extraction | Faculty of Arts |
| Clare | Killikelly | Other health sciences; Psychological trauma and related clinical interventions; prolonged grief disorder; cultural contrast; psychotherapeutic intervention; e mental health | Faculty of Medicine |
| Janine | Jongbloed | Education systems; Sociology of education; Economics of education; educational trajectories; inequalities; educational outcomes; longitudinal research; Gender; school-to-work transitions; welfare regimes; income inequality | Faculty of Education |
| Bernadette | Johnson | Zoology; Evolutionary Genomics; Sexual Selection; Sexual Conflict | Faculty of Science |
| Sanne | Janssen | Other basic medicine and life sciences; Epigenomics | Faculty of Medicine |
| Md Al | Imran | Other environmental engineering and related engineering; Biocement/ Decarbonization/mine tailings stabilization/ Bio-geo-techniques | Faculty of Applied Science |
| Aicha Asma | Houfani | Medical, health and life sciences; Legume; Proteomics | Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
| Kira | Hoffman | Landscape ecology; Fire ecology; Indigenous fire stewardship; Dendroecology | Faculty of Forestry |
| Christina | Hofer | Condensed matter characterization technique development; Nonlinear optics and spectroscopy; Atomic and molecular spectroscopy; Dual-comb spectroscopy; Field-resolved spectroscopy; Nonlinear optics; 2D materials; Atomic spectroscopy | Faculty of Science |
| Shannon | Herrick | Health psychology; sociocultural factors; intersectional research; mixed methods | Faculty of Education |
| Matthieu | Heitz | Algorithms and computational genomics; Optimal Transport; Machine Learning; Bioinformatics | Faculty of Science |
| Atri | Hatef Naiemi | History of art and architecture; Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology; Early and Medieval Islamic Urbanism; Chinese-Persian Cultural Contacts in the Medieval Period; Byzantine Art and Architecture; History and Archaeology of Central Asia in the Medieval Period; Traditional Crafts in the Islamic World | Faculty of Arts |
| Jordan | Hamden | Neurology; stress; neuroscience; development and aging; integrative biology | Faculty of Medicine |
| Liam | Hall | Human physiology; Diabetes; exercise; Metabolism | Faculty of Medicine |
| Nicolas | Graham | Social sciences; Environmental Sociology; Global and Canadian Political Economy; Climate Change Policy; Social Networks | Faculty of Arts |
| 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 |