University of Calgary, Canada invites multiple online application for Postdoctoral Positions in various research areas. Candidates interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.
1. Post Doctoral Scholar in Neurophysiology of Human Cognition, Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
We are seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow with a background in cognitive neuroscience and an interest in studying human cognition using intracranial recordings. The fellow will work closely with Dr. Fady Girgis, MD in the division of neurosurgery and Dr. Julia Kam, PhD in the department of psychology. This is a collaborative environment within the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. The fellow will work in an interdisciplinary environment with a team of neurologists, neurosurgeons, and computer scientists on several funded projects that aim to discover the neurophysiological basis of various cognitive constructs, using intracranial EEG, single unit recordings, machine learning and potentially stimulation approaches. Their primary role will involve executing the funded projects (i.e. acquisition of intracranial EEG and single-unit recordings from surgical patients, analysis of intracranial neurophysiology data, development of analytic tools, scientific dissemination). With access to state-of-the-art neuroimaging facilities and academic resources at the Cumming School of Medicine, the Psychology department, and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, the fellow will also have the opportunity to pursue collaborative and self-directed projects beyond the funded research. They will also be strongly encouraged to apply for national/international awards.
2. Postdoctoral Scholar, Paediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Our laboratory has been involved in the generation and clinical trials of cancer vaccines for currently incurable pediatric cancers. This fellowship provides a unique opportunity to contribute to this project and to conduct research to develop safe and effective precision therapeutics using computational methods and molecular immunological technologies. Career development opportunities such as mentoring, external research collaborations and grant writing will be available to enhance the professional development of the candidate. Opportunities to interact with clinicians and training in translational pediatric oncology will also be available (See POETICPhase1.org).
3. Postdoctoral Scholar, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The Post-Doctoral Scholar will work with Dr. Susan Lees-Miller on an internationally funded research project to characterize mechanisms of DNA double strand break repair in mammalian cells. The goal of the project is to identify and characterize novel interactions between DNA repair proteins that will form the basis of future structural characterization. The successful scholar will be strongly encouraged to publish their work in top journals and apply for national/international awards.
4. Postdoctoral Scholar, Energy Technology Assessment Research Group, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Reporting to the Principal Investigator, the incumbent will pursue a research project in life cycle assessment (LCA) of petrochemical feedstocks production from refining operations. This Full-Time Fixed Term position is for 12 months based on the length of the grant with the possibility of extension. The postdoctoral associate will work in the Energy Technology Assessment Research group and will be responsible for conducting and supervising research on estimating greenhouse gas emissions from petrochemical feedstocks production via the BTX unit, FCC, and steam cracking of naphtha, ethane, and natural gas liquid. The qualified candidate should demonstrate strong communication, analytical, and organizational skills and will work collaboratively with other group members.
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5. Post Doctoral Scholar, Geoscience, Faculty of Science
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Research will be carried out with the overall aim of characterizing the geomechanical behavior of fractured rock mass during hydraulic fracturing. The postdoctoral researcher should have a geoscience background with experience in petroleum geology, sedimentary rock descriptions, supplemented by rock mechanics and fracture characterization of outcrops or cores. It would be beneficial if the candidate has knowledge of petrophysical well logs, hydraulic fracturing, and geological mapping software. The positions are for 2-year appointments at the University of Calgary. The postdoctoral researcher will integrate multidisciplinary data sets, provide oral and written research summaries and project synthesis reports, and write papers for publication in internationally-leading journals.
6. Postdoctoral Scholar, Information and Security, Canadian Network on Information & Security (CANIS)
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
CANIS examines the impact of the domestic and international information environments (IE) on Canadian national defence and security. A primary objective of CANIS is to draw novel conclusions about the information environments and its use as an operational domain. The greater reach and influence of digitization of our society and the potential for information activities and threats by various entities at home and abroad highlight a national defence and security vulnerability. CANIS will identify best practices from domestic and international actors, and how they apply to Canada’s specific IE and societal composition. Our goals are: (1) explore the complex IE from multidisciplinary angles; (2) produce novel insights, and support/expand/improve information security in Canada; (3) foster research and network initiatives from emerging scholars to deepen knowledge and understanding of information and security.
7. Postdoctoral Scholar, Information and Security, Canadian Netowrk on Information & Security (CANIS)
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The University of Calgary is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of information and security. The position will support the Canadian Network on Information & Security (CANIS), a multidisciplinary effort led by University of Calgary researchers based at the School of Public Policy (SPP), the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS), the Faculty of Law and the Schulich School of Engineering.
8. Post Doctoral Associate in Language and Literacy, Werklund School of Education
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of Language and Literacy. The successful candidate will work as part of a dynamic research team that represents a sustained and unique voice in the field of literacy and language learning with specific emphasis on multi-racial/cultural/linguistic learning and pedagogy. Through their participation in several projects, this position involves the facilitation of a multidirectional flow and exchange of knowledge, engaging the voices of newcomer students, teachers, school psychologists, and other stakeholders. The postdoctoral candidate will collaborate and build relationships within a multi-tiered framework at the micro, meso, and macro levels. That is, they will work locally, nationally, and globally with scholars, graduate students, classroom teachers, children, families, policy makers, and community leaders.
9. Post Doctoral Associate in Adult Cancer Survivorship, Cumming School of Medicine and Faculty of Nursing
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The postdoctoral scholar will use mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative) to evaluate health outcomes of cancer survivors using administrative health data, conduct patient-oriented research focused on pancreatic cancer, and evaluate decision making along the cancer trajectory using scoping reviews and/or surveys and focus groups. The postdoctoral scholar will work under the supervision of Dr. Colleen Cuthbert, assistant professor in the Faculty of Nursing, Canada Research Chair in Patient and Family Centered Cancer Survivorship, and Dr. Winson Cheung, Professor and Lead for Health Services Research for Oncology in Alberta. Drs Cuthbert and Cheung are health services researchers conducting studies focused broadly on health outcomes in cancer patients.
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10. Postdoctoral Scholar in Real-World Evidence Analytics, Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The postdoctoral fellow will focus on studies in the analysis of real-world data for cancer outcomes and methods for precision health analytics under the supervision of Drs. Winson Cheung, Professor and Lead for Health Services Research for Oncology in Alberta and Darren Brenner, Associate Professor and Armstrong Investigator in Molecular Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Calgary. Drs Cheung and Brenner are conducting studies focused on the application of novel methods to large datasets and electronic health records in cancer. Priority projects include the development and application of machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, development of risk prediction models and clinical decision support algorithms. Numerous opportunities exist for the successful candidate to contribute to multiple on-going and planned research studies, to develop their own area of research expertise, to publish and present scholarly work, and to obtain additional specialized training.
11. Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Systems Modeling, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
This post-doctoral position involves compiling data from a clinical trial of pregnant women with Type 1 Diabetes and using this data to develop dynamic systems models for eventual use in feedback control of glucose using an automated insulin delivery device. The project work will be done in conjunction and with the help of a major international team with an overall goal of developing artificial pancreas systems that account for changes in physiology, environment and other factors in an automated fashion. Coordination and communication with medical professionals along with engineering researchers is an important facet of the work.
12. Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiac Sciences and Radiology, Cumming School of Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The Personalized Diagnostics Program (PDP) at the Stephenson Cardiac Imaging Centre is a leading academic program of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, located at the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Our dynamic research team is seeking highly motivated postdoctoral scholars with experience in machine learning and medical diagnostics to support a multi-year strategic expansion of our AI-focused program in patient-specific risk modelling. This work is supported by grant funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and leverages established large-scale data resources of the Cardiovascular Imaging Registry of Calgary (CIROC).
13. Post Doctoral Scholar, Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The Postdoctoral Scholar will be responsible for detailed analysis of the imaging data, synthesizing the demographic and outcome data, the imaging data from each of the independent MRI sequences, and from each of the specific time points. This involves collection of multiple types of data and then its organization, appropriate statistical analysis and interpretation. The applicant will need experience in machine learning, information technology, data mining, biological information technology and imaging processing and pattern recognition algorithms. The applicant will be encouraged to supervise graduate students on a day-to-day basis encouraging an environment of working together hand in hand and learning new techniques, learning to troubleshoot generating data and results, and gradually becoming an independent scientist. Postdoctoral scholar will be given comprehensive training in stroke clinical research methodology and medical imaging so that they can make meaningful contributions to academia, health care, and potentially industry.
14. Postdoctoral Scholar, Social Work and Field Education, Faculty of Social Work
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The postdoctoral scholar will contribute to Professor Julie Drolet’s research partnership in social work field education, through the projects “Transforming the field education landscape: Intersections of research and practice in Canadian social work field education” (funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant). The goal of this partnership is to integrate research and practice in the preparation of the next generation of social workers by developing partnered research training initiatives that enhance student and trainee research practice knowledge and applied skill development. Responsibilities include managing research ethics applications and amendments, managing a national study in Canada, analyzing qualitative data using Nvivo 12.0, drafting publications and reports, contributing to knowledge mobilization activities (peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, etc.) and other duties as required.
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15. Postdoctoral Associate, Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Dr. Gregory Cairncross and Dr. Michael Blough are recruiting a postdoctoral associate with interests in defective mitosis, the molecular origins of cancer, and growth signaling. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a dynamic research group studying the nature, evolution, and treatment of brain tumours in adults and children. The successful candidate will work closely with wet lab scientists to decipher how a ubiquitous growth factor abundant in the mammalian brain transforms neural progenitor cells to produce a histological and molecular replica of human glioblastoma with its 7+/10- diagnostic signature. Using this model of human GBM as a starting point, the successful candidate will have the freedom and opportunity to develop her/his own lines of inquiry supported by state-of-the-art facilities for animal and human genome research aided by a comprehensive cell and tissue bank. The long term goal of the Cairncross lab is to understand and prevent human glioblastoma.
16. Postdoctoral Associate, Process Modelling and Simulation, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
This position will report directly to Professor Nader Mahinpey, faculty member at the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering and director of EERG at the University of Calgary. It involves a wide range of work focused on research projects in carbon capture and utilization (CCU).
17. Postdoctoral Associate, Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
This position will report directly to Professor Nader Mahinpey, faculty member at the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering and director of EERG at the University of Calgary. It involves a wide range of work focused on research projects in carbon capture and utilization (CCU).
18. Postdoctoral Scholar, Youth Mental Health and Well-Being, Department of Psychology
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The PDF will work in a collaborative lab environment with other PDFs, graduate students, research assistants, and volunteers. The PDF will be responsible for preparing and cleaning pre-existing datasets for analysis, conducting advanced statistical analyses, writing manuscripts, knowledge translation (e.g., presentations, opinion-editorial, media opportunities), and participating in grant writing opportunities. We seek candidates who work collaboratively with cross-disciplinary colleagues and are committed to translating knowledge gained from research into the hands of youth and their families. Drs. Madigan and McArthur and the University of Calgary view diversity of identity as a strength and resource. We are committed to creating a safe, transparent, and rich lab environment that fosters critical thought through respectful discussion and inclusion.
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19. Postdoctoral Scholar, Autonomous Vehicles, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
This postdoctoral position involves implementing and designing exploration and mapping algorithms for collaborative robots. This position is available in the Intelligent Dynamics and Control Laboratory (IDCL) at the University of Calgary. We value diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants who further enhance our diversity. The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate with the supervisor, undergraduate and graduate students, and external researchers, and will be given the opportunity for career growth and development, grant writing and mentoring students.
20. Postdoctoral Scholar, Digital Twinning for Robotics, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
This postdoctoral position involves developing machine learning techniques to build a digital twin of an industrial machine/robot/autonomous vehicle to estimate their condition and to predict required maintenance time. This position is available in the Intelligent Dynamics and Control Laboratory (IDCL) at the University of Calgary. We value diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants who further enhance our diversity. The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate with the supervisor, undergraduate and graduate students, and external researchers, and will be given the opportunity for career growth and development, grant writing and mentoring students.
21. Postdoctoral Scholar, Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Immunity, and Infectious Diseases
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The postdoctoral scholar will be involved in the use of antigen-specific nanomedicines capable of re-programming different immune cell types in vivo to dissect immunoregulatory cell networks. The candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of scientists working at the interphase among protein engineering, nanomedicine, in vivo cell re-programming, developmental immunology and chronic inflammatory disease. They will have the opportunity to use a variety of functional, phenotypic (e.g. multi-dimensional flow cytometry, mass cytometry), transcriptomic (e.g. scRNAseq) and epigenetic tools (e.g. ChIPseq, multiome) to dissect pharmacodynamic effects of in vivo cell re-programming.
22. Post Doctoral Scholar, Masculinity Studies in Education, Werklund School of Education
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The Werklund School is a leader in teacher education. Ranked in the top five of Canada’s Education programs (2021), the Werklund School prides itself on providing teacher candidates with a balance of both theoretical and practical understanding of what it means to teach critically and thoughtfully for the youth of the future. The successful candidate will have expertise in masculinities studies in education, gender, sociology of education, intersecting with qualitative and/or quantitative research methodologies, teacher education, practitioner-oriented research, and scholarship. This position will work closely in collaboration with Dr. Michael Kehler, Werklund Research Professor of Masculinities Studies and provides an opportunity to develop the current research agenda within Masculinities Studies in Education. Research, current and ongoing, addresses areas intersecting masculinities and gender more broadly with specific lines of inquiry into: body image, adolescent masculinities, homophobia, sport, physical health education, and allyship.
23. Postdoctoral Associate, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Successful candidates will be recent PhD graduates who are interested in making fundamental discoveries in tumor evolution and immune response that can lead to translational impact in aggressive and largely incurable cancers. Research approaches in our team include computational analyses of tumor multi-omic profiles at bulk and single cell level, with spatial and temporal resolution within patient samples. We are interested in how tumor cells cooperate with non-neoplastic cells of the microenvironment to respond to selective pressures in general, and in particular to standard therapy regimes. The focus of the candidate will be on establishing methods to integrate long-read sequencing data into our current workflows for genome and transcriptome analyses. Key goals include identification of novel biomarkers and targets for therapy that can be further pursued within a fully operational preclinical pipeline toward clinical translation.
24. Bioinformatician/Data Scientist, Dean’s Office, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine invites applications for a Bioinformatician/Data Scientist. This Full-time Fixed Term position is for approximately 2 years (based on length of grant funding), with the possibility of extension. The Bioinformatician/ Data Scientist reports to and receives directions from the Associate Dean, Research. This position exists to provide expert bioinformatic support and training to Faculty members and their research teams in the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM). The Bioinformatician/Data Scientist will be involved in a variety of projects across the faculty, however will have significant impact across the university.
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25. Post Doctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
We are seeking a motivated postdoctoral scholar with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, intellectual independence, and a willingness to explore unfamiliar aspects of computational chemistry and materials science. The research will focus on the development and application of machine-learning methods to design new perovskite semiconductors and catalysts. Results from this work will ultimately contribute to improving our understanding of the mechanisms governing important thermochemical, electrochemical, and photochemical processes, initially focused on hydrogen generation. The successful candidate will work to characterize multi-component non-stoichiometric perovskites in tight collaboration with experimental groups who will synthesize, characterize, and evaluate the performance of new candidates identified in silico.
