Career Opportunities

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.

UBC Postdoc OpportunitiesReview current openings
Positions outside UBCFind positions at other institutions

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 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

Jason Ellis

Research Interests: Education policy, History of education

Potential project areas:

Projects related to my current research: history of education and social mobility, opportunity; education and housing markets; political economy of metropolitan schooling; policy; space and historical GIS mapping; history of immigration and education; history of educational finance and taxation. Or any project in the history of education; education policy.

Agni Boedhihartono

Research Interests: Biodiversity, Communities and Livelihoods, Conservation, Forest Management, Land-use Change, Social Science, Sustainability, Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods

Potential project areas:

Learning from local & customary governance in tropical landscapes, Use of Arts for Conservation, Conservation and development trade-offs, Impact of infrastructure development to environment and livelihoods, Community forests and land stewardship 

Christopher Nguan

Research Interests: kidney transplantation, patient reported outcomes, medical apps for mobile health, machine learning analytics of medical imaging, machine learning analytics of complex medical data outcomes, robotics, quality in healthcare, environmental impact of healthcare, artificial intelligence in healthcare

Potential project areas:

planetary health in healthcare

artificial intelligence in medicine and surgery and imaging

Margaret Schabas

Research Interests: History and Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Science Studies, History of Early Modern Philosophy, British Empiricists

Potential project areas:

History and Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of Nature; Environmental Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy; British Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Science and Technology Studies

Julen Etxabe

Research Interests: Law and humanities, Legal Theory and Jurisprudence, Human Rights, Political Theory, Law and Literature, Cultural Studies

Potential project areas:

  • Law and Humanities
  • Law and Literature
  • Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
  • Critical Theory
  • Poilitical Theory
  • Cultural Studies and Legal History
  • International Human Rights
Lisa Matthewson

Research Interests: Semantics, Austronesian languages, Cross-linguistic variation and universals, Salish languages, Semantic fieldwork, Tsimshianic languages

Giuseppe Carenini

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, user modeling, decision theory, machine learning, social issues in computing, computational linguistics, information visualization

Mathav Murugan

Research Interests: Boundary theory, Metric geometry, Potential theory, Probability theory and analysis, Quasiconformal mappings, Relationship between behavior of Markov processes and the geometry of the underlying state space, Sandpile models

Potential project areas:

Analysis and Diffusions on fractals, Quasisymmetric uniformization, heat kernel estimates, Harnack inequalities.

Janice Eng

Research Interests: Stroke rehabilitation, Motor function, Wearable sensors, Recovery of walking after stroke, Recovery of upper extremity function after stroke

Rachel Eddy

Research Interests: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Hyperpolarized 129Xe, Computed tomography (CT), Pulmonary imaging, Lung structure-function, Lung health, Respiratory disease

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:

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.