PhD Advisors at McGill University 麦吉尔大学 CA
Quick answer: McGill University in Canada has 2264 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 217 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at McGill University, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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Professors at McGill University with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroudi
Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Bio-inspired Hierarchical Multifunctional Metamaterials; Associate Member, Department of Mechanical Engineering · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
view available positions: https://www.mcgill.ca/bioeng/files/bioeng/phd_position_at_mcgill_-_am3l_lab_-_fall_2026.pdf
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Bioproducts, biomaterials and bioenergy; Design and multiscale multiphysics simulation of advanced, smart, biological, and porous composite materials and structures for energy harvesting, renewable energy, and structural health monitoring …
Agus Sasmito
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Policy
The Mine Multiphysics Research group strongly encourages applications from women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples and members of visible minorities.
Dr. Agus Sasmito is a tenured Associate Professor at McGill Mining & Materials Engineering Department. Having interdisciplinary backgrounds, i.e. a bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics, a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Postdoctoral experience in Mining Engineeri…
Ahmed Aoude
Maurice E. & Marthe Muller Chair and Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery; Associate Professor and Chairman, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, MUHC; Director, Sarcoma, MUHC; Complex Spine and Oncology Surgeon · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Regenerative Medicine, Surgical Oncology, Medical Technology; Areas of interest: Clinical Outcomes, Surgical Innovation, Surgical Navigation, Medical Device Development and Design; Clinical Interests: AI, AR, Robotics Surgery, Medical device development; Current r…
Alba Guarné
Professor, Department of Biochemistry · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate students
Our goal is to understand how proteins determine the fate of DNA during chromosome replication and repair. In particular, how regulatory proteins orchestrate the stabilization of damaged replication forks with DNA repair and forks restart. Since most of the proteins that regulate…
Albert Berghuis
Distinguished James McGill Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students
Antimicrobials, Antibiotic Resistance and Crystallography
Current research in the group led by Prof. Berghuis focuses on exploiting various complementary structural biology approaches (e.g. X-ray diffraction/scattering and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy) in combination w…
Alessandro Navarra
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Professor Navarra strongly encourages women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples and members of visible minorities to apply for Master’s and Doctoral level research under his supervision.
Established researcher with scientific and technical contributions to mine planning, mineral processing, geometallurgy and extractive metallurgy, focusing on computational optimization and operations research. Ten years of experience as a professor of industrial engineering and m…
Alex Viezel-Mathieu
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting
M.Sc. Students
M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality
Surgical Education and Simulation
Breast reconstruction and general plastic surgery
Breast reconstruction, breast surgery
Patient reported outcomes following breast surgery
Alexander Manshel
Associate Professor (On sabbatical) · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (Humanities)
⭐ I am eager to supervise graduate students interested in contemporary literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, multi-ethnic American fiction, literary institutions and literary canon formation, historical fiction, and/or literary genre.
Stream: Literature; Specialization by geographical area: United States; Specialization by time period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century, Contemporary; Area(s): Digital Humanities, Fiction, Genre Studies, History & Theory of the Novel, Identity & Representation, Sociology of Literature;…
Alexander Sender Liberman
Professor Surgery; Professor Oncology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students
Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Oncology; Precision Health
Current research:
- Examining outcomes in colorectal surgery. Evaluating minimally-invasive approaches to surgery in colorectal cancer
- Extended mesenteric resection in ileocolic resection for Crohn’s Disease.
- …
Alexandre Lehmann
Associate Professor; Principal Investigator at the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program (BRaIN) at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (MUHC); Principal Investigator at McGill’s Cochlear Implant Research Program; Principal Investigator at the Centre for Research on Brain Language and Music (CRBLM) · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Translation and Innovation; Current research: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience; Hearing Loss and Hearing Restoration; Brain Plasticity; Neuro-imaging in Healthy and Clinical Populations; Areas of interest: Brain Plasticity, Hearing Research, and Computational Neuro…
Alexis Rompré-Brodeur
Assistant professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Oncology; Kidney Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Bladder Cancer; Penile Cancer; Testis Cancer; Robotic & Open Surgery; Hereditary & genetically defined kidney cancer syndromes; Metastatic kidney cancer; Localized, high-risk, Prostate Cancer; Prost…
Aliki Thomas
Professor; Chercheur régulier, C.R.I.R. (Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en Réadaptation) du Montréal métropolitain www.crir.ca, Research Scientist, Centre for Medical Education · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prof. Thomas is accepting applications from students interested in pursuing a PhD in the Graduate Research Program in the areas of rehabilitation education, evidence-based practice and knowledge translation
Prof. Aliki Thomas is an occupational therapist, Professor in the School of Physical Occupational Therapy (SPOT), cross appointed scientist at McGill’s Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE) and researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation (CRI…
Alissa Levine
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Alissa Levine is accepting graduate students.
Research Interests
Rooted in sociology and literature, my academic interests inform a qualitative approach that engages life histories and narrative contributions to the understanding of health and well-being. An Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Heal…
Ameer Dharamshi
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I anticipate having openings for PhD students starting in Fall 2027 focusing on methodological problems in post-selection inference, small-area estimation/survey statistics, and/or statistical demography. If you are interested in joining my lab, please send me an email explaining your interests and …
Post-selection inference, statistical learning, spatiotemporal data, unsupervised learning, survey sampling, small-area estimation, statistical demography, quantitative social science; Research areas: Statistics
Amin Emad
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ PhD/MSc positions
Every semester, there are 1-2 openings for motivated graduate students (PhD and MSc) in Emad's COMBINE lab. If you are interested and have a strong background in deep learning and/or bioinformatics, send me an email and include your CV and transcripts. Additionally, you must submit…
Intelligent Systems
Research Sub-Area: Computational Biology and Artificial Intelligence
Amir Hooshiar
Assistant Professor; Director of Surgical Performance Enhancement and Robotics (SuPER) Centre · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Education and Simulation; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology. Current research: My research focus is on design, development, and validation of autonomous and soft surgical robots as well as development and validation of artificial intelligence (AI)-based deci…
Anastasia Nijnik
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Ana Nijnik and her research team, based at the Bellini Life Sciences Complex and the Department of Physiology of McGill University, are recruiting M.Sc. and Ph.D. level graduate students. Projects are available in the areas of hematopoietic stem cell biology, blood cell differentiation, innate and B…
Research Area: Molecular & Cell Biology Research Description: Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Functions, Lymphocyte Differentiation, and Immune Response by Histone Deubiquitinase MYSM1. My research team investigates the process of blood and immune cell differentiation fro…
Anie Philip
Professor - Department of Surgery; Plastic Surgery Research Director; Senior Scientist, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center; Medical Scientist, McGill University Health Center · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine; Surgical Oncology; Translation and Innovation; Precision Health; Tissue Fibrosis, Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Skin Cell Biology, Would Healing; Dysregulation of cellular signaling pathways in tissue fibrosis and squamous cell cancer; Scleroderma, squamous cell…
Anmar Khadra
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Master's and Ph.D. Positions Available
Applied Mathematics
Anouk Lamontagne
Associate Professor, PhD, PT; Associate Director, Graduate Program · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prof. Lamontagne is supervising students in Rehabilitation Science and IPN. She is considering applications for PhD and postdoctoral positions in her lab for the 2026-27 academic year, depending on funding availability.
rehabilitation, locomotion, sensorimotor integration, virtual reality, music-supported therapy
stroke, moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, older age
Prof. Lamontagne's interests are directed toward the assessment and treatment of mobility disorders in persons with an acqui…
Ara Osterweil
Associate Professor; Director of World Cinema Minor Program · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (Humanities)
⭐ I would welcome expressions of interest from graduate students interested in the history, aesthetics, and politics of American and world cinema; postwar and contemporary art; avant-garde and experimental aesthetics; as well as autofiction and auto-theory. I also would welcome expressions of interest…
Stream: Cultural Studies; Specialization by geographical area: United States; Specialization by time period: 20th-Century, Contemporary; Area(s): Aesthetics, Archives & Bibliography, Art, Critical Theory, Film & Television; Areas of interest: cinema and art of the postwar and con…
Archer Y. Yang
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I work with curious, motivated graduate and undergraduate students at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and AI for science.
If you are interested in joining my group at McGill and Mila as a research assistant:
Email me with your CV and transcripts.
You should be comfortable coding in…
Statistics
Aren A. Babikian
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I’m actively looking for motivated PhD and Masters students to join my team! If you are interested in pursuing research in these areas, please visit the Join the Team page.
Software Engineering
Arjun Krishnaswamy
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently seeking graduate students and postdocs
Neural Circuits
Aslan Baradaran
Assistant Professor of Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Regenerative Medicine, Translation and Innovation, Medical Technology; Clinical Interests: Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery, Wrist Reconstructive Surgery (Open & Arthroscopic), Hand & Wrist Arthritis, Spasticity Surgery (Hyperselective Neurectomy & Re…
Benoit Cousineau
Associate Professor
Molecular Biology/Genetics/Evolution · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ ACCEPTING GRADUATE & UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Our laboratory, located at the Duff Medical Building (room 617), offers the opportunity to acquire a solid knowledge of the principles and techniques of molecular biology, genetics and bacteriology, in a dynamic and stimulating environment. Through the diversity of our research p…
Bettina Willie
Full Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ ***Note: Dr. Willie is not recruiting any new students. ***
Skeletal Mechanobiology, Osteocytes, Bone healing, Bone adaptation, Rare bone diseases, Microcomputed tomography, Circadian rhythms in bone
Bhushan Nagar
Professor, Department of Biochemistry · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Our research interests focus on proteins that are involved in signal transduction pathways of the innate immune system. The human immune system is generally divided into two broad categories, the adaptive immune system and the innate immune system. Adaptive immunity relies on a v…
Bobby Benedicto
Faculty · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I welcome prospective graduate students who wish to work on projects relating to death and sexuality, psychoanalysis and critical theory, film and visual culture, and other related topics.
Queer of Color Negativity and the Erotics of Death, The Aesthetics of Chemsex, Gay Manila and the Global Scene, death and sexuality, psychoanalysis and critical theory, film and visual culture, and other related topics
Brent Pym
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Openings for undergraduate students
I will be on leave for the 2025-26 academic year. My next openings for supervision of new undergraduate projects will be for academic year 2026-27.
Openings for graduate students
I may have one or more openings for graduate students for admission in Fall 2026.
Algebra, Geometry, Mathematical Physics
Brett Meyer
Associate Professor
Professor
Associate Chair (Graduate Program) · Faculty of Science
⭐ Interested in joining the team? Learn about out what we’re currently looking for in new members.
Integrated Circuits and Systems
Brian Driscoll
Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Natural Resource Sciences · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Soil, water and their sustainable management; Sustainable crop and livestock production systems; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Biology; Ecology; Environment; Gene-environment interactions; Plant production; Plant-microbe interactions; Soil; M…
Brigitte Pientka
Director of the School · Faculty of Science
⭐ If you are interested in join my group at McGill as an undergraduate researcher, MSc or PhD student, or postdoc, please see the following information.
Logic and Computation, Programming Language Theory
Brouhard
· Faculty of Science
⭐ We have openings for outstanding postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates.
The Brouhard lab performs basic science research at the interface of biology, biochemistry, and physics. Our goal is to understand the mechanism of key molecules involved in the formation of the human brain. Microtubules are long, slender polymers of the protein tubulin, from whi…
Carl F. Falk
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Professor Falk will consider PhD student applications for Fall 2025.
Quantitative & Modelling
Carmen Faye Mathes
Associate Professor · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (Humanities)
⭐ I would welcome expressions of interest from graduate students interested in any aspect of British Romanticism; the history of slavery and empire; history of medicine; British abolitionism; aesthetic philosophy; historical and contemporary theories of the affections, feelings and emotions; and the p…
Area(s): Aesthetics, Affect Theory, Book History, Poetry & Poetics; Specialization by geographical area: Great Britain, Transatlantic; Specialization by time period: 18th-Century, Romantic, 19th-Century; Areas of interest: poetry and poetics; British Romanticism; transatlantic an…
Chandra Madramootoo
Distinguished James McGill Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
View available positions: https://www.mcgill.ca/bioeng/files/bioeng/seeking_graduate_students_2.pdf
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Soil, water and their sustainable management; Sustainable crop and livestock production systems; Safe, nutritious and secure food supply; Agriculture; Carbon management; Climate change; Environment; Food security; Greenhouse gases; Soil an…
Charlotte Jaloux
Associate Professor of Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Regenerative Medicine, Translation and Innovation; Current research: Peripheral nerve regeneration; Areas of expertise: Spastic upper limb surgery; Clinical Interests: Hand surgery, Peripheral nerve surgery
Christophe Dubach
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Several reseach positions (PhD, MSc or UG interns) are available in my group at McGill, please make sure to check the openings page: https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~cdubach/openings.html
Integrated Circuits and Systems
Christopher Buddle
Professor; Associate Provost (Teaching and Academic Planning), McGill University · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Not currently accepting graduate students
Research areas: Environment, ecology and sustainability. Fields: Arctic and Northern, Biodiversity, Ecology, Environment. Specialization: Ecology, biodiversity and natural history of insects and spiders in forest, Arctic and agricultural ecosystems.
Ciriaco A. Piccirillo
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ ACCEPTING PhD STUDENTS AND POSTDOC FELLOWS
Immunoregulation of autoimmune and infectious diseases. My research program as Canada Research Chair in Regulatory lymphocytes of the Immune System focuses on the immune regulation of autoimmune and infectious diseases mediated by naturally-occurring CD4+ regulatory T cells (nTre…
Cristina Carnemolla
Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (Humanities)
⭐ She is currently accepting graduate students interested in nineteenth-century Italian and Hispanic studies, environmental humanities, political ecology, and comparative approaches to literature and culture.
Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies, Languages, Literature and Cultures
Dae-Kyum Kim
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students. Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students
Data Science, Precision Health. Current research: In going through these transitions between various fields, I gained strong expertise within both experimental and computational backgrounds, which has enabled me to design a novel functional genomics pipeline to identify new bioma…
Dana Anaby
Associate Professor; Chercheur régulier, C.R.I.R. (Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en Réadaptation) du Montréal métropolitain; Research Associate, CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Dana is now accepting applications from students interested in pursuing their MSc / PhD in the Graduate Research Program.
Prof. Anaby’s research encompasses the areas of participation and well being among children and youth with physical disabilities, with a special focus on leisure participation and the impact of the environment. Her studies involve testing intervention plans to enhance community …
David John Wright
Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ He welcomes all expressions of interest from graduate students and post-doctoral applicants as he assembles an interdisciplinary research team spanning both Faculties.
History of Health and Medicine; Mental Health
David P. Labbé
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Regenerative Medicine; Surgical Oncology; Precision Health
Current research: Systemic metabolic alterations associated with increased consumption of saturated fat and obesity are linked with increased risk of prostate cancer progress…
David Titley-Péloquin
Senior Faculty Lecturer; Acting Associate Dean (Student Affairs), Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Director, Foundation Year Program · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Numerical linear algebra; Optimization; Uncertainty quantification; Data assimilation and forecasting problems; Mathematics and science education
Derek Rosenzweig
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine. Tissue repair and regeneration post-tumor resection, tissue engineering, drug delivery, low-cost 3D-printing, bioprinting, and 3D models for tumor and trauma tissue microenvironments.
Dominic Frigon
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Positions are available for undergraduate summer students, M.Sc. students, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral fellows. Please apply to the department or contact me.
Environmental biotechnology applied to wastewater management
Research areas: Environmental Engineering, TISED, Brace Water Centre
Areas of interest:
Microbial community structures and dynamics in activated sludge wastewater treatment systems
Minimization and sanitation of biosoli…
Donald Sheppard
Professor
Molecular Mycology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ NOT ACCEPTING GRADUATE STUDENTS
Molecular Mycology
My laboratory is involved in identifying the molecular mechanisms whereby pathogenic fungi cause human disease. Our work focuses on two pathogens, Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus, both of which cause fatal infections in immunocompromised hosts. The a…
Dr. Ada L. Sinacore
Associate Professor | Program Director, Diploma in Human Relationships, Diversity & Sexuality | Director, Social Justice and Diversity Research Lab · Gap Fill - Professional Schools
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for the upcoming application period.
Counselling Psychology
Educational and Organizational Consultation
Qualitative Research Methods, LGBTQ+
Sexual Violence
Bullying (School and Workplace)
Human Rights Psychology
Career Psychology
Social Justice Theory and Pedagogy
Feminist/Multicultural Counselling Psychology
Inter…
Dr. Atif Jastaniah
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting, M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Surgical Education and Simulation, Translation and Innovation, Quality Improvement, Medical Education, Abdominal wall reconstruction, ECMO in Trauma
Dr. Carmen L. Mueller
Associate Professor of Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation; Her area of research focused on assessments of endoscopic proficiency.; Outcomes after benign and malignant gastroesophageal surgery; surgical education; Llaparoscopic (keyhole surgery) for hernia, colorectal, sple…
Dr. Cristian O'Flaherty
Full professor (CAS); Director, Taught MSc Program (Core stream), Surgical and Interventional Sciences · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Regenerative Medicine; Translation and Innovation; Data Science; Medical Technology; Precision Health. Areas of expertise: Biology of reproduction; Metabolism of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species; Antioxidant response; Reproductiv…
Dr. Dan Deckelbaum
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine; Associate Member, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health; Honorary Associate Professor of the National University of Rwanda; Co-Founder and Co-Director, Centre for Global Surgery, Department of Critical Care, MUHC · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology; Precision Health; Global health. Global surgery, Capacity-building,Trauma, Emergency response, Emergency medicine, Disaster preparedness and response; Aims at develop…
Dr. George Zogopoulos
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting
Ph.D. Students
Surgical Oncology
Translation and Innovation
Data Science
Precision Health
Areas of expertise:
Pancreatic & Biliary Tract Cancers
Cancer Genetics/Precision Oncology
Transplant Surgery/Transplant Oncology
Current research:
The genetics and oncogenomics of pancreaticobiliary canc…
Dr. Gregory K. Berry
Associate Professor; Chief and Mueller Chair, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery; Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Education and Simulation; Clinical Trials; Surgical Education; Teaching orthopaedic surgery
Dr. Ipshita Prakash
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Oncology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Oncology. Current research: Cancer-related financial toxicity; Health care disparities; Healthcare behaviours research; Health services research; Global oncology (McGill Global Oncology Program). Areas of interest: Breast ca…
Dr. Jacques Lapointe
Associate Professor; Scientist · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students
Group: Currently Recruiting, M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Oncology
The main focus of our laboratory is to study gene expression and DNA copy number alteration profiles of prostate cancer using DNA microarray technology. The goals are to increase our understanding of prostate cancer pathology, establish a new molecular classific…
Dr. Jason Corban
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation; Medical Technology; Orthopaedic Sports Medicine; Upper Extremity Surgery and Trauma; Shoulder, Hip and Knee Arthroscopy; Shoulder Arthroplasty; Upper and Lower Extremity Kinematics; Cartilage Preservation
Dr. Jean Tchervenkov
Professor of Surgery; Surgical Director of Pediatric Renal Transplantation and Director of Living Donor Renal Transplantation · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Translation and Innovation. Areas of expertise: Organ Transplantation and transplantation immunology, Cancer Immunology, MASH and metabolic syndrome. Current research: The role of RORy in cancer, organ transplantation and rejection, …
Dr. Jeffrey Barkun
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine; Liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgery
Dr. Kosar Khwaja
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery; H. Rocke Robertson Chair in Surgery; Medical Director, Trauma Program, MUHC; Partner Code Blue Advisors; Assistant Physician for Montreal Canadiens Hockey Chief Medical Officer; Chief Medical Officer AIRMEDIC · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Trauma and acute care surgery; Minimally Invasive Surgery
Dr. Lorenzo Ferri
Professor of Surgery; Professor, Oncology; Head, Division of Thoracic and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, MUHC · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision:
Currently supervising students
Group:
Currently Recruiting
M.Sc. Students
M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Ph.D. Students
Research areas:
Surgical Outcomes and Quality
Surgical Education and Simulation
Surgical Oncology
Translation and Innovation
Precision Health
Areas of expertise:
Dr. Ferri is an independent investigator with active basic science, translational and clinical research programs, all…
Dr. Lucie Lessard
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Craniofacial Surgery, Microsurgery, Laser and Aesthetics.; Clinical and Basic Sciences: Bone Healing – Distraction Osteogenesis (BMPS) Molecular Biology and BMP, Wound Healing (TEF Beta)
Dr. Michael Weber
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Regenerative Medicine; Surgical Oncology; Translation and Innovation; Current research: Redox-based physical plasma therapy for controlling spread of metastatic bone cancer and orthopedic infections; Composite 3D printed scaffolds for stabilization,…
Dr. Miroslav S. Gilardino
Associate Professor of Surgery; Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery; Director, H.B. Williams Craniofacial and Cleft Surgery Unit,; Chief, Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, MCH - MUHC · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Regenerative Medicine; Surgical Education and Simulation; My research interests include safety measures in craniofacial surgery, optimizing clinical outcomes in cleft lip/palate surgery and in Pierre Robin sequence, craniofacial distraction, surgica…
Dr. Olivier Court
Assistant Professor of Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Precision Health; Laparoscopic bariatric
Dr. Paul A. Martineau
Professor; Director of Orthopaedic Sport Medicine Research; Knee and Upper Extremity Arthroscopy; Head of Orthopaedic Upper Extremity Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students. Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students.
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology. Current research: Artificial Intelligence; Surgical Innovation; Medical Technology. Clinical Interests: Arthroscopic surgery of the knee and upper extremity; Multiligamentous knee injur…
Dr. Peter Jarzem
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students; Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Regenerative Medicine, Translation and Innovation; Artificial Disc Replacement, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Orthopaedic Implants, Complex Deformity, Tumor Surgery
Dr. Peter Metrakos
Professor of Surgery, Pathology and Anatomy and Cell Biology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Oncology. Areas of interest: The Effect of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Liver Metastases and Proprotein convertases in tumour progression and malignancy: novel targets in cancer, abnormal expression and processing of the proprotein convertases PC1 and PC2 …
Dr. Pierre-Luc Bernier
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Medical Technology, Precision Health, Congenital cardiac surgery, Cardiothoracic, Pediatric cardiac surgery, Adult congenital cardiac surgery, Ross operation, Life-long management of aortic valve disease, Pediatric transplantation and mechanical hea…
Dr. Pramod Puligandla
Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics and Surgery; Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Training Program; Director, Extracorporeal Life Support Program, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Associate Chair for Peri-Operative Services, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Montreal Children’s Hospital · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation; Health services, surgically correctable congenital anomalies, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, gastroschisis, outcomes research, surgical education, pediatric surgical critical care
Dr. Reggie C. Hamdy
Professor, Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting
M.Sc. Students
M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality
Regenerative Medicine
Translation and Innovation
Medical Technology
Precision Health
Current research:
My research interest is focused on the stimulation of bone formation in cases of distraction osteogenesis, using various animal models (rabbit and…
Dr. Shannon Fraser
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Surgical Education and Simulation, Surgical Oncology, Effect of Mentorship
Dr. Simon Bergman
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation; Perioperative Quality Indicators and Recovery; Minimally Invasive Surgery and Endoscopy
Dr. Stephen Su Yang
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students; Group: Currently Recruiting, M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Areas of expertise: Anesthesiology; Clinical Interests: Perioperative medicine, hemodynamic changes during perioperative period, advanced hemodynamic monitoring of high-risk surgical patients, and postoperative outcomes; Areas of int…
Dr. Steven Paraskevas
Professor of Surgery; Director of Pancreas and Islet Transplantation; Director of Research, Division of General Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine; Translation and Innovation; Current work examines extracellular vesicle release from human islets and the immune responses to these vesicles. Our lab also is working on stem-cell generated islets for use in human transplantation. A third, and related, area …
Dr. Victor McPherson
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Oncology; Medical Technology; Precision Health; Targeted Therapy in Bladder Cancer; Clinical Trials in Urologic Cancers; Urologic Oncology: robotic, laparoscopic, and open surgery; Bladder cancer, targeted therapeutics, robotic
Dr. Wassim Kassouf
Professor, Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Urology, Head, Urologic Oncology, Associate Member, Pathology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students
Group: Currently Recruiting, M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Oncology; Translation and Innovation
Areas of expertise: Radiosensitization for invasive bladder cancer, both in preclinical and clinical settings
Current research: Clinical and translational research program focuses on refi…
Eduardo Kohn
Associate Professor and Anthropology for the Ecozoic Lead · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I encourage prospective PhD students interested in working with me to explore the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and to apply to do the anthropology PhD under my supervision through the Leadership for the Ecozoic initiative
My lifework is dedicated to developing the conceptual equipment –the ideas, methods, and theories– to prepare us to live in this age of unprecedented anthropogenic climate change. Centrally, this involves imagining better ways to live with the living world, in ways that can allow…
Edward Harvey
Professor of Surgery, Inaugural Michal and Renata Hornstein Chair in Surgical Excellence, Director, Surgical and Interventional Research Program, RI - MUHC · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Regenerative Medicine; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology; My research focuses on the repair and recovery of the trauma patient. This encompasses fundamental and clinical aspects of healing, including implant and fracture optimization, b…
Elena Bennett
Professor; Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Sustainability Science · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Soil, water and their sustainable management; Sustainable crop and livestock production systems; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Climate change; Ecology; Economics; Ecosystems; Environment; Indigenous; Sustainable management systems; Environmen…
Elham Emami
Professor, Dean · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Please note that Dr. Emami is not accepting student supervision requests at this time.
Dr Emami’s interdisciplinary and practice-relevant research program has the ultimate goal of decreasing the burden of poor oral health in the Canadian population. Her research program comprises three themes at 3 levels—the individual, the community and the population as a whole. …
Elie Girsowicz
Assistant Professor; Director of the Vascular Surgery Residency Program · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Education and Simulation; Translation and Innovation; Dr. Girsowicz has a special interest in vascular surgical education with a focus on simulation in surgical residency training. He also has a strong interest in technology acquisition and surgical innovation.
Elliot J. Mitmaker
Associate Professor of Surgery
Associate Professor of Oncology
Director, Surgical Oncology Residency Training Program · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students
Group: Currently Recruiting
M.Sc. Students
M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Ph.D. Students
Surgical Education and Simulation
Surgical Oncology
Current research: Research interests include endocrine oncological conditions of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands along with rare genetic endocrine syndromes.
Clinical Interests:
Surgical and oncological diseases of t…
Ellis Cooper
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently the Cooper lab has a few openings for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. Contact E. Cooper for more information.
Research Area: Neurophysiology / Neuroscience
Research Description:
Research in the Cooper lab focuses on activity-dependent mechanisms that govern the rearrangement and function of synapses as neural circuits become established during early postnatal life. Our projects address …
Emilie Trinh
Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Open to supervising trainees in QI research? Yes, as a primary or co-supervisor
Her research focuses on quality improvement (QI) in dialysis care.
Areas of interest: Quality Improvement
Top 3 quality improvement interests:
Improving care of dialysis patients
Reducing health inequities affecting Indigenous patients
Increasing home dialysis uptake
Emily Porter
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prospective Master's or PhD students: The lab regularly has new positions available. We look for electrical, computer, or biomedical engineering background primarily but others may be considered. Potential collaborators? We are always happy to collaborate on projects! Contact Dr. Porter @ emily.port…
I am interested in electromagnetic (EM)-based solutions with applications in diagnostic, therapeutic, supportive or assistive medical technologies. These EM-based technologies are promising due to their low-cost, minimally invasive nature, and the potential for combined diagnosis…
Eric Lewis
Associate Professor · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (Humanities)
⭐ I am actively recruiting graduate students interested in this project, for which there are numerous funding possibilities.
Ancient Philosophy, History of Natural Philosophy, Philosophy of Music
Erik Cook
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Postdoc position available
Research Area: Neurophysiology Research Description: My lab focuses on how neuronal activity underlies conscious visual perception. We are working to decipher the neural code, the rules neurons use to encode behaviorally relevant information in their electrical activity. The lab …
Evan Wong
Associate Professor of Surgery; Chair, Competence Committee (General Surgery Residency Program) · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students; Group: Currently Recruiting, M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation; Global Surgery (Northern Quebec and internationally); Trauma Systems; Injury Prevention; Acute Care Surgery; General Surgery; Trauma; Critical Care Medicine; Trauma Surgery
Fabio Cury
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality
Angiogenesis; Tumour Microenvironment; Functional Imaging; Animal Models; Prostate Cancer
Fackson Mwale
Professor, Department of Surgery (Orthopaedic Surgery); James McGill Professor; Graduate Program Director Chair; Graduate Executive Committee; Senior Investigator, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting M.Sc. Students Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology; Precision Health. Areas of expertise: Musculoskeletal biology; intervertebral disc and cartilage biology; translational orthopaedic research; biologic therapeutics. Current research: Dr. Mwale’s research focus…
Gerald Fried
Professor, Department of Surgery; Associate Dean for Education Technology & Innovation; Director of the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning; Medical Director of the Clinical Innovation Platform (CLIP) at the RI-MUHC · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students. Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation. Areas of expertise: Surgical education, simulation, minimally invasive surgery. Areas of interest: AI/Computervision to analyze videos of surgical procedures; Metrics of performance in procedural sk…
Gergely L. Lukacs
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral scientist positions
Molecular cell biology, protein quality control and sorting
Gil Bub
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ If you are interested in being involved as either undergraduate trainee, graduate student, or postdoc, please contact Dr Gil Bub (gil.bub@mcgill.ca).
Cardiovascular physiology and instrumentation
Gordon Hickey
Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Human nutrition and One Health; Agriculture; Arctic and Northern; Biodiversity; Climate change; Contaminants; Economics; Ecosystems; Environment; Food governance and policy; Food security; Indigenous; Regulatory frameworks; Sustainable man…
Gregor Fussmann
Professor and Chair · Faculty of Science
⭐ I welcome researchers interested in combining experimental and theoretical approaches to study population or community dynamics and/or evolutionary dynamics.
Topics explored at the Fussmann Lab
Population and community dynamics
The interplay of ecological and evolutionary dynamics (eco-evolutionary dynamics)
Freshwater community response to global/climate change
Nutrient limitation in lakes - including CO2
Freshwater winter and under-…
Gregory T Marczynski
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ ACCEPTING GRADUATE STUDENTS
Cell cycle and developmental control of chromosomal replication. We wish to understand how chromosome replication is coordinated with cellular growth and development so that replication occurs during the appropriate period of the cell cycle, and in the appropriate cell-type durin…
Guojun Chen
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Member, Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ We are recruiting graduate students and postdocs to work on drug/gene delivery. Check here for more information! There are multiple OPENING positions in our laboratory. Click here for more information!
Devices & Sensors
Molecules & Materials
Living Systems Engineering
Research Overview:
Our laboratory focuses on engineering intelligent biomaterials for drug delivery, with the ultimate goal towards precision medicine. We are also interested in understanding and exploiting the i…
Géraldine Merle
Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McGill University · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students. Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students.
Research areas: Regenerative Medicine; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology. Current research: Research interests; Bio-electrochemistry; Design and evaluation of diagnostic devices; Nanostructures; Development and assessment of biomaterials for infection prevention and …
Hadla Hariri
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prospective Students
Master’s and PhD students interested in joining the laboratory are welcome to apply. Prospective students should send their CV/resume, letter of intent (1 page max), and most recent diploma to hadla.hariri@mcgill.ca.
Bone biology; Bone marrow adipose tissue (BMAT); Bone marrow microenvironment; Bone and Mineralized Tissue Biology in Health and Disease
Harriet V. Kuhnlein
Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Professor Kuhnlein is not accepting graduate students
The foundation of Dr. Kuhnlein’s work is bringing recognition to the excellent nutritional qualities of unique, little-known foods experienced by Indigenous Peoples in their local rural settings. In a “first things first” approach Dr. Kuhnlein realized early on that the nutrient …
Heather B. MacIntosh
Associate Professor · Gap Fill - Professional Schools
⭐ Dr. MacIntosh welcomes those who are interested in volunteering in her research lab to gain experience in any of the above areas. Currently, she has opportunities for individuals with couple therapy experience who are interested in transcribing couple therapy sessions for research purposes. Addition…
Dr. MacIntosh’s research interests fall into the area of trauma and dissociation. In particular, she is interested in the impact of childhood trauma on emotion regulation and mentalizing and how these impact couple relationships and the process of couple therapy, as well as the i…
Heather Gill
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students. Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students.
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Advanced endovascular treatment of aortic pathology, peripheral and mesenteric vascular disease; Prehabilitation in vascular surgery and geriatric vascular surgery.
Hsiu-Chin Lin
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I have open positions for Ph.D. If you are interested, please go to "prospective students".
Intelligent Systems
Huong Nguyen
Assistant Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Sustainable crop and livestock production systems; Integrated Weed Management; Agroecology; Interdisciplinary
Ian Watson
Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Positions are currently open for medical fellows, undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of computational biology, mouse models of cancer and cell signaling
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Detected in its earliest stages, melanoma is highly curable; however, the 5-year survival rate declines drastically for regional and distant metastatic disease. Recently, melanoma has emerged as the latest success story for both geno…
Idaresit Ekaette
Associate Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ The food and bioprocessing laboratory seek creative minds to join our research and development of bioresources toward solving real-life issues.
Bioproducts, biomaterials and bioenergy; Bio-based products; Food materials; Biopolymers
Inna Sharf
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IS AVAILABLE FOR CANDIDATES WITH BACKGROUND IN SPACE SYSTEMS, DYNAMICS AND CONTROL; AVAILABLE POSITION: Postdoctoral position is available for 1-2 years
Dynamics and Control; Dynamics, control, guidance, estimation, and motion planning of robotic systems; Space robotics and systems: space manipulators, orbit and attitude propagation of spacecraft, debris removal and de-orbitation, on-orbit servicing; Unmanned aerial vehicles: dyn…
Ioannis Psaromiligkos
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I accept a limited number of graduate students each year. If you are interested in joining my research group, feel free to send me an email after you apply to McGill or, preferrably, list me as one of your preferred supervisors on your application. Please keep in mind that, due to the volume of emai…
Telecommunications and Signal Processing
Jacques Archambault
Professor, Molecular Virology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ ACCEPTING GRADUATE STUDENTS
My laboratory is interested in the molecular biology and pathogenesis of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and polyomaviruses (HPyVs), two families of small DNA tumor viruses that are widespread in the human population and cause significant diseases. While oncogenic HPV types are the…
James Lee
Assistant Professor of Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
AI in medicine
Jasmin Chahal
Assistant Professor (Teaching), Department of Microbiology and Immunology
On leave 2026/2027 · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting Graduate Students.
Dr. Chahal works on developing engaging course delivery, assessment design and CURE-based lab courses, such as the recent implementation and development of the SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) research program into …
Jason Matthew Harley
Associate Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University; Scientist, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC); Director of Research, Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning, McGill University; Associate Member, Institute for Health Sciences Education, McGill University; Associate Member, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, McGill University · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students. Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students.
Research areas: Surgical Education and Simulation; Data Science; Medical Technology. Areas of interest: Surgical education, simulations, emotion regulation, burnout, medical technology, team training (e.g., communication, collaboration, leadership). Current research: Currently, t…
Jean-Christophe Nave
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ @ Ph.D. level:
- You MUST have a degree in Math.
- You should read some of my papers before contacting me.
- I will not reply to generic emails.
@ Postdoc level:
- Several openings are available through the CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellowships program.
Numerical analysis, partial differential equations, level set methods, fluid mechanics, interface problems, multi-phase flows, fluid-structure interaction, computer graphics, applied group analysis / invariant numerical methods, PDE with discontinuous coefficients / discontinuous…
Jean-Philippe Lessard
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Ph.D. — Please read some of my recent papers first, and mention in your message which ones interest you and why.
Postdoc — Openings are available through the CRM-ISM Postdoctoral program.
Rigorously verified computing, infinite dimensional dynamical systems, partial differential equations, delay differential equations, ordinary differential equations, topological methods, fixed point methods, functional analytic methods, approximation theory, spectral methods, com…
Jeffrey Cardille
Associate Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Research areas: Environment, ecology and sustainability; Fields: Arctic and Northern; Biodiversity; Ecology; Ecosystems; Environment; Water; Wildlife; Specialization: Causes of landscape pattern and land-use change; Consequences of these changes on ecosystems, biodiversity, and t…
Jessica Gillung
Assistant Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Biodiversity; Biology; Ecology; Ecosystems; Environment; Entomology; Biodiversity discovery; Macroevolution; Molecular phylogenetics; Functional and comparative morphology; Genomics and bioinformatics; Statistical comparative methods
Jessica Head
Associate Professor
Director of the Morgan Arboretum and Molson Nature Reserve · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability
Soil, water and their sustainable management
Arctic and Northern
Biodiversity
Ecology
Environment
Soil and water systems
Water
Wildlife
Genetic and epigenetic factors underlying responses to environmental contaminants in birds and other wil…
Jiangbo Yu
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prof. Yu's lab currently has openings for fully-funded PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Partially- or fully-funded master's student positions might be available for strong applicants with Bachelor's degrees.
Transportation Engineering
Long-term demand forecasting and infrastructure planning for the agentic era of transportation systems
Real-time operation and control of mobility services with agentic AI
Future Mobility (e.g., vehicle electrification, automation, flexible ownership)
R…
John Sampalis
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision:
Currently supervising students
Group:
Currently Recruiting
M.Sc. Students
M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Ph.D. Students
Research areas:
Surgical Outcomes and Quality
Surgical Oncology
Data Science
Current research:
Health services evaluation
Epidemiology / Surgical Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Health Economics
Real World Evidence
Clinical Trial Design
Health economic evaluation of Ovarian Cancer wi…
Jonathan Cools-Lartigue
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Oncology, Medical Technology, Precision Health
Cell Signaling, Host-Tumour Interaction and Lung Cancer
Elucidating the mechanisms by which systemic inflammation promotes tumor progression in patients with lung and esophageal malignacies. In particular, the understanding …
Jonathan Maisonneuve
Associate Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Engineering; Environment; Renewable energy; Water; Water-energy-food nexus; Water purification; Renewable energy; Membrane science and technology
Jordan Axt
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ The lab will be recruiting graduate students for the Fall 2027 semester. If you are interested in joining the lab as a research assistant, please contact Lab Director Jordan Axt.
Social & Personality
Joshua Vorstenbosch
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery; Associate Member, Department of Oncology; Residency Program Director, Division of Plastic Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students. Group: Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Regenerative Medicine; Surgical Oncology; Translation and Innovation. Areas of expertise: Breast Reconstruction; Lymphedema Surgery; Complex Oncologic Reconstruction; Foreign Body Reaction; Tissue-Implant Interactions. Areas of inter…
Josée Dostie
Professor Department of Biochemistry · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Research Interests
Background:
The human genome consists of approximately three billion nucleotides distributed amongst twenty-two autosomes and one sex chromosome. Most of our genes are encoded within these 23 chromosomes. With few exceptions, human cells contain two genome co…
Judith N. Mandl
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate & Postdoctoral positions available
Immunology, Molecular & Cell Biology
Julie Major
Senior Faculty Lecturer;
Academic Advisor;
Director, McGill Panama Field Study Semester · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Not currently accepting graduate students
Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
Tropical agriculture
Agrology
Julio Fiore Jr.
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Surgical Outcomes; Associate Professor; Director, Surgical Scientist Program; Director, MSc Surgical Outcomes – Surgical and Interventional Sciences · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Perioperative care and postoperative recovery; Opioid-sparing and opioid-free analgesia; Rehabilitation, Interstitial Lung Disease, Colorectal Surgery, Epidemiology, Clinical Research, Physical Rehabilitation, Clinical Trials; Surgical Outcomes; My …
Jun Ding
Associate Member, Department of Pathology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Open Positions: !NEW! (updated 03/2026) We are seeking PhD students and postdoctoral fellows who share our passion for single-cell genomics and machine learning applications in health science. Please see our Positions page for more details.
Our lab focuses on studying cell dynamics in various biological processes in many diseases (e.g., developmental disorder, pulmonary diseases, cancers). Decoding cell dynamics is essential for understanding the pathogenesis of diseases and finding novel therapeutics. The existence…
Jörg Hermann Fritz
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ ACCEPTING GRADUATE STUDENTS
The laboratory of Jörg Hermann Fritz focuses on understanding how innate host resistance regulates inflammatory and antigen-specific adaptive immune responses. In particular, he investigates how innate immune recognition of microbes and of infection-associated physiological chang…
Kakali Mukhopadhyay
Associate Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Graduate Student Funding Opportunities
Graduate Student Sponsorship Program with Environment Climate Change Canada (ECCC): Most of my graduate students participated in the ECCC Coop program within the Model Development and Quantitative Research Division. There …
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Safe, nutritious and secure food supply; Human nutrition and One Health
Sustainable Energy Models; Green Energy and Economics with Renewables; Sustainable Resource Utilisation to meet SDG Targets; Food-Water-Energy Nexus, International Tra…
Katherine Gray-Donald
Associate Professor (Retired) · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Professor Gray-Donald is not accepting graduate students
As it is now well established that poor diets lead to chronic disease, Dr. Gray-Donald's research focuses on different components of the diets and their relation to health and how we can help to improve these diets and lower risk of disease. Current reasearch projects include: Co…
Katherine McKendy
Assistant Professor of Surgery; General Surgery Assistant Program Director; Surgery Clerkship Site Director - Montreal General Hospital; General Surgery Competency Committee Member · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation; Surgical education, Trauma surgery, acute care general surgery, critical care; McGill University Health Centre Trauma Hub
Kirk H. Bevan
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ PhD Openings (2) - Li-ion battery materials
Computational Materials Engineering, Energy, Electronic, and Environmental Materials
Kyle Elliott
Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Arctic Ecology · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Research areas: Environment, ecology and sustainability; Fields: Arctic and Northern, Biodiversity, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Indigenous, Wildlife; Specialization: Arctic ecology, Evolutionary ecology of senescence, Ornithology (birds), Migration, Marine biology, Wildlife…
Lawrence Lee
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Surgical Oncology, Translation and Innovation, Precision Health. Dr. Lee's research interests include health technology assessment and comparative effectiveness research for surgical technologies and innovations, with emphasis on the practice of col…
Leo Liu
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ NOT ACCEPTING STUDENTS
My laboratory is interested in understanding the fundamental innate immune sensing mechanisms and their interplay with viral pathogens. We use RIG-I-like receptors and respiratory RNA viruses, particularly influenza A virus and coronaviruses, as models to discover new players in …
Liane S. Feldman
Edward W. Archibald Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery; Surgeon-in-chief, McGill University Heath Centre; President of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons or SAGES · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Education and Simulation; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology; Precision Health; Areas of interest: Improving quality of patient recovery and other outcomes of abdominal surgery; optimization of perioperative care processes; pati…
Liette Lapointe
Professor, Information Systems · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Please note that Dr. Lapointe is no longer accepting graduate students or post doctoral fellows. Please note that Dr. Lapointe no longer accepts graduate students or post doctoral candidates
Information Systems; Health Management, Healthcare Collaboration, IT in Healthcare, Leadership & Governance, Risk Management, Social Innovation, Sustainable Development, Technology & Innovation
Lili Wei
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I'm always looking for self-motivated PhD students. If you are interested in pursuing PhD with me, please first read this advertisement.
Software Engineering
Lisbet Haglund
Professor, Department of Surgery; Co-director, Orthopaedic Research Laboratory · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology; Musculoskeletal Research; My research focuses on characterization of molecular mechanisms leading to intervertebral disc degeneration and progression, and to develop molecular markers to follow disease state, …
Louis Collins
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ No Positions available at this time.
Want to help people with cancer? CIHR-funded positions for 1 PDF & 2 PhDs to work on ultrasound-based Image-Guided NeuroSurgery of the spine (registration, segmentation, augmented reality) in a great environment.
Interested in cognitive decline and @Alzhiemers? 1…
Research areas: Modeling & AI
Imaging
Areas of expertise: Dr. Collins works on the use of computerized image processing techniques such as non-linear image registration and model-based segmentation to automatically identify structures within the human brain and to quantify anato…
Louis-Nicolas Veilleux
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Group: Currently Recruiting, Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Regenerative Medicine. Areas of expertise: Pediatric Gait and Motion Analysis; Biomechanics in pediatric sports medicine. Current research: Gait and motion analysis in youth with musculoskeletal disorders and sports medicine. Areas o…
Louise Thibault
Associate Professor; RD (Registered Dietitian OPDQ) · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Professor Thibault is not accepting graduate students
Dr. Thibault’s research activities are in the general area of nutrition and behaviour, focusing in understanding the underlying neuroendocronological events involved in the nutritional modulation of feeding behaviour. Significant research contributions include the elucidation of …
Luc E Chouinard
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Post Doctoral Positions: https://www.mcgill.ca/civil/files/civil/post_doctoral_positions.pdf
Areas of expertise: Risk Engineering
Research areas: Structural Engineering
Areas of interest:
Estimation of ice scouring hazards for offshore oil production facilities
Condition indexing system for the rehabilitation, evaluation, maintenance and repair of embankment dams
Ice for…
Lucas Caire da Silva
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Interested? Join the team! You can help us develop innovative bioinspired solutions for sustainable and efficient chemical processes.
Materials Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Green and Sustainable Chemistry
Luis Agellon
Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow - joint supervision with Professor Ryan Mailloux.
Having expertise in nutrient metabolism and redox biology would be viewed as an asset.
Safe, nutritious and secure food supply; Human nutrition and One Health; Animal models; Health; Nutrient diversity; Nutrition; Nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics; Lipid and bile acid metabolism; Gene expression; Nuclear receptors; Transgenic and gene-disrupted mouse models of human …
Lysanne Campeau
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students; Graduate supervision: Currently supervising students
Regenerative Medicine, Surgical Oncology, Medical Technology, Precision Health; Neurogenic voiding disorders and incontinence, pelvic reconstruction; Translational research on benign prostatic disease and voiding dysfunction; Physiology and Pharmacology of the lower urinary tract…
Maggie Kilgour
Molson Professor of English Language and Literature · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (Humanities)
⭐ Although I have also supervised a number of graduate theses on the gothic and 19th-century writers, my current research projects mean that I especially welcome students working on Milton or 17th-century writers, including the long-neglected Abraham Cowley for whom I have great affection. I also work…
Milton and Shakespeare; the reception of the classics, especially Virgil and Ovid, in the Renaissance; the poetry of Abraham Cowley; Renaissance European literature, classical literature; the gothic novel; cannibalism.
Marc D. McKee
Professor; Full Professor with a joint appointment in: Canada Research Chair in Biomineralization (Tier 1), Government of Canada Chairs Program · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
Consider marveling at, and studying, BIOMINERALIZATION as a graduate student in the McKee lab.
Does the term 'biorocks' intrigue you?
Might you be fascinated by how geology, mineralogy, crystallography and biology all come together in biomineralization processes that form hard b…
Mineralization/calcification, mineralized tissues, bones, teeth, otoconia, rare bone and tooth mineralization diseases, osteomalacia/odontomalacia, mouse models of disease, hypophosphatasia, X-linked hypophosphatemia, electron and X-ray microscopy and tomography, osteopontin, avi…
Marc Rodger
Professor, Division of Hematology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not currently taking Graduate Students
Dr. Rodger’s teaching, clinical care and research focuses on venous thrombosis.
Marie-Claude Geoffroy
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Youth Suicide Prevention · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ none for now
Youth mental health and suicide prevention, epidemiology, randomized controlled trial, integrated knowledge mobilization
Marie-Lyne Grenier
MScOT, DOT, PhD, erg. - Assistant Professor (Professional) · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting graduate students
My current clinical practice areas include return to work rehabilitation, ergonomics, and preventive workplace health. My current research interests include anti-oppressive and anti-colonial healthcare practice and education.
Mary M Stevenson
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ NOT ACCEPTING GRADUATE STUDENTS.
Together with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, malaria is a major infectious disease. Two thirds of the global population is at risk for malaria with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for about 90% of the deaths. Morbidity due to severe complications of this disease is extremely high among…
Masha Prager-Khoutorsky
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ We are currently looking for motivated and talented candidates for graduate and undergraduate research as well as postdoc positions.
Research Area: Neurophysiology / Cell & Molecular Biology
Research Description:
A major focus of our research is to understand integrative mechanisms by which the brain regulates basic functions of the body, such as hunger, thirst, and hormonal levels. The area of the brain invo…
Matthew Cheng
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not currently taking Graduate Students
His research focuses on patients with potentially lethal infections, including those with severe manifestations of sepsis, bloodstream infections, and opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. His program focuses on improving morbidity and mortality in these conditions…
Maxime Denis
Associate Professor (Professional), Department of Biochemistry · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate Supervision: Not accepting students.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Biochemistry; Learner-centered Education; Development of core-competencies in Biomedical Sciences.
Melania Cristescu
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Interested in joining our research group? Graduate student positions PDF positions Independent research positions for undergraduate students
Research Themes: The nature and scale of recombination and mutation rate variation across genomes; Speciation in ancient lakes. Developing molecular methods for assessing biodiversity trends and ecosystem health Understanding the ecology (production, degradation, persistence) of …
Melissa McKinney
Assistant Professor; Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Ecological Change and Environmental Stressors · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Abiotic and biotic stress; Arctic and Northern; Biodiversity; Climate change; Contaminants; Ecology; Environment; Wildlife; Arctic and Northern; Climate Change; Ecology and Biodiversity; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health and To…
Michael Goldfarb
Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Open to supervising trainees in QI research? No, not at this time
Areas of interest: Quality Improvement; Top quality improvement interests: Patient-reported outcomes, Family engagement in care; Current research: Dr. Goldfarb’s research program is focused on improving patient- and family-centered care and outcomes in the intensive care setting.…
Michael J. MacKenzie
Canada Research Chair in Child Well-Being (Tier 1) and Full Professor of Social Work, Psychiatry and Pediatrics · Gap Fill - Professional Schools
⭐ SEEKING DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Dr. MacKenzie has current funding for doctoral students and is seeking curious and passionate future scholars committed to the well-being of all children to work on his team. Dr. MacKenzie strongly encourages applications from scholars underrepresented in the academy, inclu…
Transactional Processes in Child Development
Child Well-Being
Child Welfare Policy & Practice
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Cumulative Risk, & Trauma
Foster Care Placement Trajectories & Models of Group Care
Etiology and Outcomes of Child Maltreatment
Michael Tanzer
Professor of Surgery, Jo Miller Chair of Orthopaedic Research, Associate Surgeon-in-Chief, MUHC, Vice Chair Surgery (Clinical), McGill · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine, Translation and Innovation, Medical Technology, Arthroplasty, Periprosthetic infection, Osseointegration, Hip & Knee Arthroplasty, Periprosthetic infection
Mikaël Bauer
Director, School of Religious Studies; Associate Professor of Japanese Religions (Buddhism), School of Religious Studies; Associate Member, Department of East Asian Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (Humanities)
⭐ He welcomes M.A and Ph.D students wishing to specialize in an any aspect of Classical or Medieval Japanese Buddhism.
His main interests concern the relation between Buddhism and state, the connection between doctrine and ritual, and the material and performative aspects of Buddhist and Shinto rites. He welcomes M.A and Ph.D students wishing to specialize in an any aspect of Classical or Medieva…
Mitchell Bernstein
Professor; Program Director, Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program; Head, Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Co-Director, Limb Deformity Unit, Shriners Hospital for Children · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Medical Technology; Precision Health; Musculoskeletal trauma, limb lengthening and limb deformity; Orthopaedic Trauma; Post-traumatic Reconstruction; Limb Lengthening and Deformity Correction
Mladen Glavinovic
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ No longer taking students
Neurophysiology
Monroe Cohen
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ No longer taking students
Neurophysiology
Mustafa Kumral
Full Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ If you are interested in studying under the supervision of Prof. Kumral, please e-mail him your CV.
His research focuses on surface mining, mine systems optimization, reliability and maintenance analysis, and mine risk analysis.
Research interests:
Mine risk management
Mine planning and optimization
Mineral economics
Bed-blending and homogenisation operations
Reliability analys…
Muthucumaru Maheswaran
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ NEW! Research Opportunities (updated: March 2020) I am looking for students to work in research at the intersection of edge computing, machine learning, programming languages, systems design and implementation. This research is supported by Ericsson and Ciena. Students with the right background will…
Software Engineering
Myra Piat
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Dr Piat is open to the supervision of students who should send her a letter of interest and CV and see the project descriptions below. 2025-2026 Masters student project description: https://www.mcgill.ca/psychiatry/files/psychiatry/2025-2026_masters_description_.pdf; 2025-2026 PhD student project de…
Implementation Science, Mental Health Recovery, Knowledge Translation, Equity, Qualitative Research
N. Keita Christophe
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Updated August 2026: Dr. Christophe WILL be accepting graduate students this application cycle (Applications Due December 1, 2026).
Developmental Science
In my research, I employ a wide range of quantitative tools to examine (1) the impact of discrimination on trajectories of psychopathology and wellbeing among racially/ethnically minoritized and immigrant youth, (2) how cultural factors such as ethnic-racial…
Nader Fahmy
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Education and Simulation; Urolithiasis (Urinary stone diseases); Medical education; Endourology (Urinary Stones and Laparoscopy)
Neil Price
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Masters and Doctoral positions are now available for qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability. Please contact me by email if you are interested in joining our research group.
Visit the Graduate and Postdocto…
Research areas: Conservation, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour
Areas of expertise: Biological oceanography. Physiological ecology of nutrient acquisition in marine phytoplankton and bacteria. Trace element essentiality, toxicity and biogeochemical cycling. Resource limitation of …
Nicolas B. Cowan
Professor of Physics and Earth & Planetary Sciences at McGill University, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Planetary Climate · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ MEChA is currently at capacity, so I am not recruiting new researchers.
Planetary Climate; surfaces and atmospheres of exoplanets; monitoring how their brightness and color change with time
Nicoletta Eliopoulos
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine; Adult stem/stromal/progenitor cells, Cell and gene therapy, Regenerative medicine, Cancer research, GMP human cell handling and processing, Cell-based therapeutics
Niladri Basu
Professor; Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Environmental Health Sciences · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Soil, water and their sustainable management; Safe, nutritious and secure food supply; Human nutrition and One Health; Animal models; Arctic and Northern; Biology; Contaminants; Ecology; Environment; Food safety; Food science; Gene-environ…
Noémi Dahan-Oliel
Associate Professor [Professional] · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Noémi is accepting students pursuing their Masters or Doctoral studies in Rehabilitation Science. Stipend available for a Masters/Doctoral student interested to join a telerehabilitation project for children living with a musculoskeletal condition, or a knowledge synthesis on best practice for trans…
childhood-onset disability, community integration, musculoskeletal conditions, outcome, participation, pediatrics, quality of life, rehabilitation
Prof. Dahan's research interests focus on the functional and quality of life outcomes of children with musculoskeletal and neurodevel…
Paul Thomassin
Professor; Director, McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Environment, ecology and sustainability; Sustainable crop and livestock production systems; Climate change; Economics; Environment; Regulatory frameworks; Sustainable management systems; Environmental and resource economics; Economic-ecological macroeconomic modeling; Non-market …
Pierre-Luc Girard-Lauriault
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ We are continuously looking for highly motivated researchers and students from a broad range of backgrounds to strengthen our team. Please contact Prof. Pierre-Luc Girard-Lauriault for more information.
Multidisciplinary research spanning engineering, thermodynamic and electrodynamic physics, kinetic and reactive chemistry, materials science; Surface Modification Using Plasma; Plasma-Liquid Interactions
Pnina Brodt
Professor and senior scientist; Research director -Brodt Lab · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, Ph.D. Students
Research areas: Surgical Oncology; Areas of expertise: Cancer Biology, metastasis, Liver metastatic disease, tumor microenvironment, animal models of cancer, IGF-pathway; Areas of interest: Cancer Metastasis, Role of the tumor microenvironment, Anti-cancer drug, Pancreatic cancer…
Qian (Vivian) Liu
Assistant Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Dr. Liu is looking for highly motivated graduate students. Please send your CV to qian.liu3@mcgill.ca.
Research areas: Human nutrition and One Health
Specialization:
Interactions between zoonotic viruses and animal host during virus infection
Development of strategies to eradicate viral zoonotic diseases in animals
Interdisciplinary approaches (biology, super-resolution microscopy…
Rachel Rabin
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ The Addiction, Imaging, and Mental Health (AIMH) Laboratory is currently accepting inquiries for a Research Assistant position. We are also interested in mentoring undergraduate and graduate trainees. Those interested should send a cover letter and CV to: rachel.rabin@mcgill.ca (subject: Research As…
Youth Mental Health and Early Intervention
Rafael Sanchez-Salas
Associate Professor; Stephen Jarislowsky Chair of Urology; Attending Surgeon · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Oncology; Translation and Innovation; Localized Prostate Cancer : Diagnosis and Focal Therapy; Loclaized Prostate Cancer; Diagnosis and treatment of localized Prostate cancer
Reghan James Hill
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Research openings
Soft Matter Research, Colloids for Advanced Materials
René St-Arnaud
Professor, McGill University; Director of Research · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently supervising students; Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Regenerative Medicine; Cell and Molecular Biology; Genetics; We are interested in the control of gene expression in bone cells as well as in vitamin D metabolism. My laboratory uses state-of-the-art techniques in molecular biology and molecular genetics to identify and characteri…
Rex J. Brynen
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I anticipate retirement at the end of the 2027/28 academic year. Because of this, I am no longer accepting PhD students or post-doctoral fellows.
Comparative Government and Politics
Conflict simulation and serious game design.
Complex peace and humanitarian operations in fragile and conflict-affected states.
Middle East politics
Intelligence analysis and strategic forecasting.
NOTE: I anticipate retirement at the end of …
Richard Garfinkle
Assistant Professor of Surgery · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality; Surgical Oncology; Outcomes of rectal cancer surgery; long-term outcomes in patients with diverticulitis; clinical trial methodology
Richard Preuss
Associate Professor [Professional], Director, Physical Therapy; Associate Professor (Professional); Chercheur régulier, C.R.I.R. (Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en Réadaptation) du Montréal métropolitain www.crir.ca · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ - Not currently accepting graduate students -
- Not currently accepting graduate students -
Research Areas:
biomechanics
low back pain
neuromuscular coordination
neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation
Rob Whitley
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Whitley is open to the supervision of students, who should send him a letter of inquiry, CV, and university transcript(s).
Recovery, Stigma, Men’s Mental Health, Veterans’ Mental Health, Qualitative Methods, Participatory Video, Religion and Mental Health, Suicide Prevention.
Robert Turcotte
Professor of Surgery, McGill University; Chair Surgical Oncology, MUHC · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Oncology; Bone & Soft Tissue Tumors; Amputees; Bone & Soft Tissue Tumors; Massive Endoprostheses; Quality Control; Transcutaneous Implants
Roderick R. McInnes
Professor Department of Biochemistry (Not Accepting Graduate Students); Alva Chair in Human Genetics, Professor of Genetics, Professor of Biochemistry, McGill University · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students
Retinal degenerations
Our lab is interested in two major questions in biology and medicine. First, in inherited neurodegenerations, we wish to understand what is happening in the mutant neurons, in the years to decades between their birth and their death years to decades later. A…
Samantha Gruenheid
Departmental Chair & Professor, Microbiology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ NOT ACCEPTING STUDENTS
Host/pathogen interactions and bacterial pathogenesis. Our lab is focused on identifying and studying the molecules and pathways that play critical roles during the interaction of bacterial pathogens with their hosts. We examine the host/pathogen interaction from both angles: the…
Sero Andonian
Professor, Division of Urology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting; M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students
Surgical Oncology, Medical Technology; Endourology; Teaching of minimally invasive treatment of kidney stones and radiation safety measures during these procedures; Endourology, Laparascopic & Robotic Urology
Shangpeng Sun
Assistant Professor · Gap Fill - Macdonald Campus
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students
Soil, water and their sustainable management, Sustainable crop and livestock production systems, Bioproducts, biomaterials and bioenergy
Siegfried Hekimi
Full Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ PhD position - September 2027
Our laboratory is looking for an additional PhD student to start in September 2027 to work on cell biology problems related to synthesis and intracellular trafficking of coenzyme Q in a variety of cellular and organismal systems.
Canadian and French applicants need to h…
In the Hekimi lab we are using mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans and mouse mutants to understand aging focusing on activities that affect mitochondrial function.
We are using mutants of the microscopic nematode roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mice, an…
Simone Chevalier
Full Professor; McGill Urology Director of Research · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Areas of expertise: To establish the clinical and functional significance of protein kinases implicated in the androgen-independent progression of human prostate cancer. Development of new therapeutic modalities for prostate cancer in animal models.
Current research: My research…
Sina Kheiri
Assistant Professor, Jarislowsky Research Chair in Translational Oncology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students; M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects; Ph.D. Students; Postdoctoral Fellow
Research areas: Regenerative Medicine; Translation and Innovation; Medical Technology; Precision Health
Areas of expertise: Microphysiological Systems; Organ-on-a-Chip; Tissue Engineering and Cancer Modeling; Vasculogenesis & Angiogenesis; Translational Oncology; Computational Fl…
Sinziana Dumitra
Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery; Associate Member, Oncology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently Recruiting: M.Sc. Students, M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects, Ph.D. Students
Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Regenerative Medicine, Surgical Oncology, Precision Health; Retroperitoneal Sarcoma; Improving access and quality of cancer care; Sarcoma, Peritoneal surface malignancies, Melanoma
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