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

Alexia Yavicoli

Research Interests: fractal geometry, harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, number theory, ergodic theory

Wenying Liu

Research Interests: Use of sea water in heap leaching; Release of selenium and associated toxic elements from mine waste materials; Heap leach modelling

Daan Maijer

Research Interests: Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow, Stress, Microstructure Materials processing models employed for process control

Christopher Maxwell

Research Interests: Hereditary Cancer, Cell division, Cell migration, Differentiation, Cell polarity

Chadwick Sinclair

Research Interests: Predicting the correlation between the structure of alloys, at the microstructural and atomic scale, and their mechanical behaviour

Scott Oser

Research Interests: Dark matter, Elementary Particles, Neutrinos, Particle physics, Statistical methods for physics, gravitational wave astronomy, LISA

Potential project areas:

dark matter, SuperCDMS

James McKendry

Research Interests: Skeletal Muscle, Protein Metabolism, Aging, Nutrition , Exercise, Sarcopenia, Protein , Muscle Disuse, Stable Isotope Tracers, Omics , Cell Culture, Microscopy

Anne Murphy

Research Interests: Arts and Cultural Traditions, Religion, Literary or Artistic Work Analysis, Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Cultural history, Early Modern Studies, Punjabi Studies, South Asian Studies

Roger Beckie

Research Interests: Mine drainage, physical hydrogeology, groundwater geochemistry, groundwater contamination

Alan Kingstone

Research Interests: Brain mechanisms of human perception, attention, and behaviour in experimental & everyday situations

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.