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
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
Shannon Herrick Health psychology; sociocultural factors; intersectional research; mixed methods Faculty of Education
Rohan Anand Medical, health and life sciences; Clinical trials; Research methods; Public health
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
Bernadette Johnson Zoology; Evolutionary Genomics; Sexual Selection; Sexual Conflict Faculty of 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
Walter Sena Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Faculty of Medicine
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
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
Celia Edell Ethics in technology (e.g., digital, artificial intelligence); Ethics; Accountability Faculty of Arts
Md Mahamud-ur Rashid Medical, health and life sciences; Virology; Influenza virus; Zika virus; Dengue Virus; HIV virus; Blood Cloting; Proteomics Faculty of Medicine
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
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
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 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
Yunzhou Wen Chemical sciences; Electrochemistry; X-ray spectroscopies; Electrocatalysis; In-situ electrochemical spectroscipies; Reactor engineering Faculty of Science
Enkhzaya Chuluunbaatar Other clinical medicine; myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome; Multiple sclerosis; epidemiology of neurological diseases Faculty of Medicine
Hyung-Suk Daniel YOO Neurodegeneration; Age-related macular degeneration; Subretinal fibrosis; Retinal Degeneration; Neural repair; Axon regeneration Faculty of Medicine
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
Negin Motamed Yeganeh Cognitive sciences; Neuropsychology; Neuropsychological Assessment; Cognitive development; Executive Functioning; Psycholinguistics Faculty of Arts
Jordan Hamden Neurology; stress; neuroscience; development and aging; integrative biology Faculty of Medicine
Abhishek Soni Carbon capture engineering; Material Science, Self-driving experiments, machine learning, clean energy, CO2 electrolysis Faculty of Science
Matthieu Heitz Algorithms and computational genomics; Optimal Transport; Machine Learning; Bioinformatics Faculty of Science
Andreas Novotny Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); marine ecology; Oceanography; eDNA; Food webs; zooplankton; Salish sea Faculty of Science
Abhishek Sharma Particle physics, experimental; Particle Physics Faculty of Science
Bowen Xiao Developmental psychology Faculty of Education
Sandeep Saxena Bone, skin and cartilage science; Stem cell biology; Regeneration; Fibrosis; Regenerative medicine Faculty of Medicine
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
Meingold Chan Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Social epigenetics; Children's socioemotional development; Parenting; Racial/cultural differences Faculty of Medicine
Liam Hall Human physiology; Diabetes; exercise; Metabolism Faculty of Medicine