07 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of British Columbia, Canada

The Biosynthetic Enzymes Laboratory is an interdisciplinary research group working in the field of chemical biology with a focus on enzymes that construct natural products. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to our structural biology efforts. We study novel enzymes and use X-ray crystallography as a major tool to elucidate enzyme mechanisms. Recent work from our group has been published in Nature Chemistry, Nature Chemical Biology, PNAS, JACS, and Angewandte Chemie. We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow with broad interests in enzymology and in-depth training in the area of X-ray crystallography.

Our laboratory is located centrally in the vibrant UBC campus, with easy access to the ocean, mountains, and downtown. Vancouver is routinely ranked among the most livable cities in the world.

TRIUMF and the University of British Columbia’s Department of Physics and Astronomy  are seeking applications from recent particle physics graduates interested in a Postdoctoral position with the Rare Decay Group. As the successful applicant, you will have an opportunity to participate in research related to studies of rare kaon and pion decays and searches for dark matter with the CERN NA62 experiment and the PSI PIONEER experiment.  Specifically, you will focus on, and contribute in a significant manner to simulations and data analysis, detector and electronics R&D, and experiment-related operations.  

Welcome to the forefront of scientific exploration! As a Postdoc Research Fellow, you’ll be at the heart of unraveling the mysteries of rare decay phenomena. Your role is crucial: from analyzing complex datasets to spearheading technical developments and presenting breakthrough results, you’ll be instrumental in pushing the boundaries of our understanding.

Join our passionate team as we embark on a journey of discovery, leveraging your expertise to uncover insights that could reshape our understanding of fundamental physics. With a focus on participation in data analysis, technical innovation, and result dissemination for rare decay experiments, your contributions will be both impactful and transformative.

Fluid biomarkers can provide a detailed picture of neurological health and disease using relatively low-cost, accessible, objective, and scalable tools. There has been a rapid expanse of research into candidate blood-based biomarkers that show utility for the diagnosis and prognosis of neurological conditions. This position will focus on the statistical analysis for multiple projects involving large scale databases from various cohorts, including but not limited to traumatic or hypoxic brain injury, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, Multiple Sclerosis and healthy aging. The postdoctoral fellow will oversee their own individual project, to be developed in collaboration between the supervisor and a successful candidate. They will also provide guidance to lab members for other projects.

The PDF will join an ongoing project studying production of green hydrogen via high temperature and pressure (HTP) water electrolysis being investigated through a custom-built HTP reactor. This work departs from traditional water electrolysis conditions, and seeks to assess component behaviour and system performance under HTP conditions. Part of this work will be carried out in collaboration with the University of Quebec at Trois Rivieres (UQTR). The scope for this role also includes work on reference electrode development for electrolysis cells, including long-term accelerated stress tests.

The ideal candidate is expected to i) have strong hands-on experience in electrochemical device applications and characterization techniques; ii) have practical experience in electrochemical cell and cell stack design, especially for water electrolysis; iii) have the ability to conduct electrochemical characterizations on the HTP setup; iv) be able to analyze and interpret experimental data using various data analysis software (e.g., Excel, Python and Origin); vi) develop new testing procedures and identify/implement process improvements; vii) report and troubleshoot issues related to instrumentation and testing.

A postdoctoral research fellowship is available in the laboratory of Dr. Mari DeMarco in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia (www.DeMarcoLab.ca). The fellow will lead the technological design, analytical validation and clinical evaluation of biofluid diagnostics to support early and accurate diagnosis neurodegenerative proteinopathies. The laboratory has a variety of analytical tools to pursue protein biomarker assay development, including an array of mass spectrometric and immunometric equipment. The intended primary methodology for this work will be quantitative/targeted protein mass spectrometry, and dependent on the fellow’s interests and goals, can be expanded to other analytical approaches. The primary focus of the lab is in advancing protein biomarkers/assays for neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal degeneration, Parkinson’s disease dementia. As the lab routinely engages with clinical partners to help solve urgent diagnostic challenges, the fellow may also have the opportunity to participate in building fit-for-purpose analytical tools for applications beyond dementia.   

The fellow will be based at St Paul’s Hospital, a teaching hospital of the University of British Columbia (UBC) located in downtown Vancouver, Canada. The DeMarco laboratory physically spans the domains and research and medicine with footprints in both the hospital laboratory and the UBC research centre at St. Paul’s Hospital. The candidate will work in a collaborative clinical research environment, and will interact regularly with physicians, laboratory medicine professionals, and other collaborators.

The Industrial and Multiphysics Laboratory at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow (who has completed their PhD within the last five years at the time of appointment) to work on a newly industrial-funded 2-year postdoctoral research project. The successful PDF candidate will join a dynamic and multidisciplinary team under the supervision of Dr. Dana Grecov. Dr. Grecov’s current research program focuses on studying complex fluids and their applications using numerical simulations and experimental methods.

For more information about Industrial and Multiphysics Laboratory, please visit https://ibml.mech.ubc.ca/ and/or the LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/industrial-and-biological-multiphysics-laboratory/

Are you interested in atmospheric dynamics and in working on research problems related to climate extremes? Are you motivated to help improve climate models and their predictions? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the Climate Dynamics Lab in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) at the University of British Columbia to contribute to research on atmospheric dynamics driving extreme temperature and hydrological events. Project goals include:

1. understanding how the application of a novel run-time empirical bias-correction technique impacts the representation of atmospheric variability and related surface extremes in a global climate model;
2. developing and publishing open-source python code to calculate metrics of atmospheric circulation for the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM);
3. quantifying and understanding how improvements in global models from run-time bias correction impact dynamically downscaled simulations.

Research will focus on present-day simulations and future projections of atmospheric circulation patterns and variability associated with temperature and hydrological extremes, including, but not limited to: atmospheric rivers; quasi-stationary waves and atmospheric blocking; cold-air outbreak events; extratropical cyclones; and the stratospheric polar vortex.

The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate with team members from Environment Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma) in Victoria, BC, Canada.  You will also have opportunities to collaborate with other researchers in the EOAS Climate Dynamics Lab. Our research group, led by Prof. Rachel White, conducts research on climate dynamics, including subseasonal to seasonal forecasting, with a focus on the atmospheric dynamics associated with extreme weather events such as heatwaves, wildfires and extreme precipitation.