PhD Advisors at University of British Columbia 英属哥伦比亚大学 CA
Quick answer: University of British Columbia in Canada has 1525 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 189 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 University of British Columbia, 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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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (189)
Professors at University of British Columbia with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Aastha Mehta
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I am looking for PhD students to join my group at UBC! Students with an interest and background in systems, networking, or security, please apply here.
Systems & Networking, Security & Privacy
Adam Frankel
Professor and Director, Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Degree Program · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Medicinal chemistry, Biochemistry, Post-translational modifications, Molecular biology, Pharmacy education
Alannah Hallas
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Condensed Matter; Experimental studies of quantum materials, crystal growth, neutron scattering, muon spin relaxation; Design and crystal growth of new quantum materials, Structural and magnetic properties of high entropy oxides, Magnetic frustration in the local to itinerant cro…
Alexander D. Smith
Assistant Professor of Teaching · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology
Molecular and Systems Pharmacology
Pharmacy Education Research and Leadership
Genetics
Molecular biology
Cell biology
Rare diseases
Pharmacy education
Alexander Rauscher
Associate Professor since 2017 · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Medical Physics; Magnetic resonance imaging; quantitative susceptibility mapping, myelin water imaging, neuroscience, multiple sclerosis, concussion, the effects of tissue anisotropy on the MR signal
Alexandra Peck
Assistant Professor | Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Art · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ She is recruiting graduate students and welcomes research collaborations.
Art History. Research focus on Pacific Northwest Native art, archaeology, and geography. Native American & First Nations art (pre-colonial and early colonial), Northwest Coast art, archaeology, material culture, ecology/land/environment, cultural adaptation & exchange, museums & …
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prospective graduate students: several fully funded openings for PhD and MSc students in Statistics through a CANSSI project on distributed MCMC methodologies.
Scalable approximation of complex probability distributions
The prevalence of uncertainty in our world has fuelled the development of sophisticated mathematical methods to understand and tame uncertainty. This has been a central quest in the field of statistics. A key concept oft…
Ali Ameli
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
I am a hydrologist interested in exploring how water and solutes move and react within watersheds, how these movements and reactions change with climate variability and land-use alteration, and ultimately how these changes impact terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. I currently le…
Alison Lister
Professor/Graduate Chair · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: willing to supervise
Research Groups: Particle and Nuclear Physics; Research Field: Energy frontier physics (ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider); Research Topics: Top Quark measurements, Beyond the Standard Model physics, Dark Matter and Hidden Sector searches, Machine learning in particle…
Alison Phinney
Professor and Associate Director, Faculty Development · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ MHLP, MN, MSN - thesis, MSN - non-thesis, PhD
Students or post-doctoral fellows who are thinking of pursuing further study in this area are welcome to contact me to explore possibilities for conducting their own research, or joining one of our ongoing projects.
Area of Research
Research Interests
My research takes a broad view of health to identify the capacities of older people for successfully coping with the functional consequences of aging and disease. I am exploring what can be done in partnership with families and communities to s…
Allison Man
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting. Our group is actively recruiting students and postdoctoral fellows! Feel free to get in touch to learn more.
Astronomy & Astrophysics; Extragalactic Astrophysics; Charting the growth of galaxies across cosmic time; Galaxy formation and evolution, Early Universe, Star formation, Supermassive black holes, Galaxy mergers, Galaxy structure and kinematics, Stellar populations, Interstellar m…
Aly Karsan
Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, BC Cancer Agency · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Graduate students in the Karsan lab are in the UBC Interdisciplinary Oncology Program, UBC Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC Experimental Medicine Program, UBC Genome Sciences and Technology Program (GSAT), and the UBC Bioinformatics Training Program. Dr. Karsan also accepts graduate students thr…
Myeloid malignancies, myelodysplastic syndromes, hematopoietic system development, toll-like receptor (TLR) pathways, Notch signalling pathway
Anais Orsi
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
I am a polar climate scientist, combining fieldwork in key locations, innovation in the lab, and interactions with the modelling community to better quantify our understanding of polar climate variability at the decadal to millennial scale, and to better assess the risks associat…
Andre Marziali
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ not accepting
Applied Physics; Biophysics; Biophysics - Genomics Technologies
Andrea Damascelli
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Research Groups: Condensed Matter; Research Area: Condensed Matter; Research Field: Electronic Structure of Quantum Materials; Research Topics: Strongly correlated electron systems, low-dimensional systems and nanostructures, transition-metal oxides, metal-insulator transition, m…
Andrew Jorgenson
Professor and Founding Director of the Climate & Society Lab · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prospective Graduate Students: please contact me if our research interests are aligned. My former PhD students have secured tenure-track faculty positions, postdocs, and applied research positions at various institutions and organizations throughout the world, including Boston College, Boston Univer…
Environment and Community | Sociology of Health. Drawing from various approaches within comparative and global political economy, I conduct research on the human dimensions of global and regional environmental change, with a focus on the societal causes and consequences of the cl…
Andrew MacFarlane
Associate Member · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: willing to supervise
Condensed Matter; Chemistry and Physics of the Solid State, Superconductivity, Magnetism
Andrew Potter
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Research Groups: Condensed Matter; Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics; Quantum Information
Research Field: Condensed Matter + Quantum Information + Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) Physics
Research Topics: Topological phases of matter, quantum criticality, non-equilibrium q…
Andrzej Kotlicki
Lecturer · Faculty of Science
⭐ not accepting
Research Groups: Applied Physics, Condensed Matter, Physics and Astronomy Education; Research Area: Condensed Matter; Research Field: Applied Optics/Accoustics/Outreach
Anne Salamon
Department Head | Associate Professor of French · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
Romance Philology, Codicology and book history, Digital humanities, History of language, 14th and 15th French literature. Current projects: “Editing Book 14 (On Earth and Its Parts) of the Livre des Propriété des choses by Jean Corbechon. With Yoan Boudes (SSHRC Explore, 2026-202…
Antje Ellermann
Professor of Political Science · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I am interested in working with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with a research focus on migration and citizenship.
Canada | Colonial, post-colonial, settler theories, and practices | Comparative Politics | Europe | Methods: Qualitative | Migration policy and politics | Public policy | United States
Ariel Zhitnitsky
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: not accepting
Research Groups: Theoretical Physics; Particle and Nuclear Physics
Research Area: Theoretical Physics
Research Field: Particle Theory/Astrophysics/Cosmology
Research Topics: Axions, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Vacuum energy in gauge theories
Arman Rahmim
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting; We are continuously and actively recruiting students, postdocs, volunteers, interns, and visiting students from all around the world. https://qurit.ca/team/open-positions/
Medical Physics; Molecular imaging of cancer, Quantitative Imaging, Image reconstruction, Machine learning and radiomics, Theranostics; Quantitative PET for enhanced diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response assessment of cancer patients, Quantitative SPECT-based dosimetry in m…
Arpan Gujarati
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Looking for strong systems or theory-inclined students to join my group starting Fall 2026.
Systems & Networking
Asher Leeks
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I'm currently looking to recruit graduate students and postdocs interesting in studying the social lives of viruses. I have projects available using experimental microbiology, viral bioinformatics, and evolutionary theory.
Evolution
Avery Everhart
Assistant Professor of Geography · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Students interested in working with me should reach out to me directly in advance of applying to our department’s graduate programs
Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS | Gender, Race, Class | Knowledge, Ideas, Practices | Power, Colonialism, Justice
Ben Bloem-Reddy
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prospective graduate students: If you're interested in working with me, you should apply to the UBC Statistics Department's MSc or PhD program (note that we now offer a fast-track MSc to PhD program, which is essentially equivalent to a US-based PhD program). In your application research/personal st…
I work on problems in statistics, machine learning, and causal inference. Most of my ongoing work is motivated by some form of (scientific) knowledge acquisition, and the interrelated roles of models, data, inference, and prediction. Some recent examples: Uses, benefits, and disc…
Brent Page
Associate Professor (on leave) · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology; Medicinal chemistry; Chemical biology; Drug discovery
Brett Gladman
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise (scholarship only)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Planetary Sciences, Solar system formation and evolution
planet formation, observations of moons, comets, asteroids
Formation and evolution of planetary systems
Brian E. Cairns
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
Neuroscience, Chronic pain, Migraine
Callista Yee
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I'm recruiting graduate students and postdoctoral fellows! Please take a look at my lab website and provide the requested information.
Cell and Developmental Biology
Calvin Kuo
Assistant Professor, SBME · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ The Human Motion Biomechanics Lab (HuMBL) is currently looking for highly motivated Masters and PhD students in all areas of our research. As our lab does interdisciplinary research, we encourage students with different backgrounds in engineering and science to apply. In addition to academic diversi…
Research Theme: Human Interfacing Devices
Research Interests: musculoskeletal modeling of traumatic brain injury, parameter identification, wearable sensors in concussion biomechanics, Bayesian filter for high rate human motion measurements
Carl Michal
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise (scholarship only)
Research Groups: Biophysics. Research Area: Biophysics. Research Field: Biophysics and Materials,Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, biological and energy storage materials. Research Topics: Biological Materials, ionic conductors, relaxation and magnetization transfer in brain tissue, NM…
Caroline Lemieux
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Prospective Students: (Updated Jul 2026) I will be admitting students for the 2027/28 academic year. Please read my prospective students page for more details. Unfortunately, due to a high volume of low-match prospective student emails, I am very unlikely to reply to emails about admissions. Check f…
Security & Privacy, Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Program Analysis & Verification
Chadi Saad-Roy
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Mathematical biology; epidemiological modelling; infectious disease dynamics, ecology, and evolution. Broadly, I am interested in infectious disease dynamics across scales. My focal areas of research are on mathematical models for immuno-epidemiology, behavioral-epidemiological d…
Chao Liu
Associate Member - Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Science
⭐ Open Positions: https://primerobots.org/opportunities
The PRIME Robotics Lab at UBC conducts cutting-edge robotics research at the intersection of robotics, perception, and artificial intelligence.
Robotic manipulation and grasping
Swarm and modular robotics
Multimodal perception and reasoning
Motion planning and control
Christian Schoof
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
I am a fluid dynamicist interested in physical processes that occur in and around glaciers and ice sheets. My long-term goal is a better understanding of how the shape and volume of these ice masses change over time, and how they interact with their wider environment. In pursuit …
Christopher Harley
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Information for prospective students
In general, I hope to accept one or possibly two graduate students every fall. If you are interested in working in my lab, here are a few useful pieces of information. First, UBC is great, Vancouver is great, and marine ecology in British Columbia is especially g…
I'm interested in why plants and animals live where they live, and how their distributions will shift as a result of global climate change. Specifically, I study how abiotic forces, such as temperature and ocean acidification, and biological relationships, such as predation, comp…
Christopher Hearty
Professor/IPP Scientist · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
Particle and Nuclear Physics; Particle & Nuclear Physics; Subatomic Physics Belle II (see my research web site: http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~hearty/hearty.html); Direct searches for new physics in e+ e- collisions; dark sector; light Higgs
Colin Gay
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
Particle and Nuclear Physics
Particle & Nuclear Physics
Energy frontier physics (at the Large Hadron Collider)
Beyond Standard Model physics, Extra dimensions, CP violation
Colin Ross
Professor and Associate Dean, Research · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology; Molecular and Systems Pharmacology; Genomics; Gene therapy; Gene editing; Rare diseases; Cancer biology; Personalized medicine; Pharmacogenomics
Corree Laule
Associate Professor at UBC · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Medical Physics; magnetic resonance imaging; myelin water imaging, quantitative MRI, T1 and T2 relaxation, brain, spinal cord, myelin, histology, lipids, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, neurological diseases
Curtis Suttle
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Biological oceanography; environmental virology; marine microbiology
The virosphere exists wherever life is found; it is a major cause of mortality, a driver of global geochemical cycles, and a reservoir of the greatest unexplored genetic diversity on Earth. In oceans and freshw…
Danica Sutherland
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I am unlikely to take new students this year; I would discourage you from spending the money and time to apply this year if you really only want to work with me. You should still consider applying to the department (and/or to Stat / ECE / Math), though, because we have many other excellent professor…
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Statistical & Theoretical Machine Learning
Daniel Steel
Associate Professor | Affiliate Member · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Dr. Steel is currently recruiting a Graduate Research Assistant to work on this grant.
His research focuses on coupled ethical-epistemic issues in science, especially in relation to environmental and public health issues.
Danya Fast
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I am recruiting Master’s and Doctoral students at this time.
Africa/Middle East | Canada/Northwest Coast | North America | Well-being, health, technology | Medical Anthropology | Socio-cultural Anthropology | Adolescents and young adults, Substance use, Substance use care, Harm reduction, Cities, Space and place, Experimental methods, Comm…
Darlene Weston
Associate Professor Emerita · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Please note, I retired July 1, 2026, so I will not be taking on any new graduate students.
Research Area: Canada/Northwest Coast | Europe | Latin America/Caribbean | Lifeways, deathways, ritual | Well-being, health, technology
Research Stream: Anthropological Archaeology | Biological Anthropology
My research interests are varied, ranging from palaeodemography and palae…
David J. Jones
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Research Groups: Applied Physics; Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics; Condensed Matter. Research Area: Applied Physics. Research Field: Atomic, Optical and Molecular Physics. Research Topics: Femtosecond Frequency Combs, XUV Spectroscopy, Precision Spectroscopy. Research direc…
Douglas Bryman
Professor/Warren Chair · Faculty of Science
⭐ not accepting
Particle and Nuclear Physics; Particle & Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics, Applied Physics (Radiation imaging); Measurements of Rare Particle Decays
Rare Pion and Kaon decays: CERN NA62; TRIUMF PIENU; Particle Physics Research and Applications
Douglas Scott
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Theoretical Physics; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Cosmology; Structure formation, Cosmic Microwave Background, Early Universe, High redshift galaxies, Sub-mm Observations, Astro-statistics
Ehsan Karim
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting new students. Supervision status · in effect since October 2026. Dr. Karim has reached his supervision capacity and is not accepting new students until further notice. This applies to all prospective graduate students — master’s and doctoral — in the School of Population and Public Hea…
He develops causal inference and machine learning methods that turn large health administrative databases into reliable real-world evidence. Causal Inference Methods: Develops and evaluates methods for estimating treatment effects from non-randomized data — including targeted max…
Elitza Tocheva
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Join our Laboratory! We are an interdisciplinary group and we welcome students & postdocs with either experimental or theoretical/computational background. Applicants are expected to have strong foundations in one of the following areas--Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Microbiology, Bioinform…
Microbial ultrastructure; cryo-electron tomography; bacterial physiology; secretion systems; novel bacterial phyla; functional and structural proteomics. The Tocheva lab focuses on bridging the scales between individual proteins, macromolecular assemblies and neighboring cells. B…
Elizabeth Lagresa-González
Assistant Professor of Spanish · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
Early Modern Literature and Culture, Cross-Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre Studies, Visual and Material Culture
Erik Eberhardt
Professor and Head · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting students
Despite improvements in the recognition, prediction and mitigation of adverse rock mass responses to engineering activities, failures still exact a heavy social, economic and environmental toll. Ever increasingly, experts are called upon to analyse and predict - assessing risk, b…
Fawziah Lalji
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Health Outcomes, Infectious disease, Tuberculosis, Pharmacoepidemiology, Health economics
Fei Zhou
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Research Groups: Condensed Matter; Theoretical Physics; Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Research Area: Condensed Matter
Research Field: Quantum Magnetism/Quantum Many-body Physics/Applications of QFT/CFT
Research Topics: Ultra-Cold Quantum Matter, Strong-Coupling physics, F…
Fong Chan
Associate Professor of Teaching, Assistant Director, Entry-to-Practice PharmD · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
Pharmacy education, Clinical pharmacy, Kidney disease, Pharmacy practice
Dr. Chan’s current educational and research interests include innovative technology to complement traditional approaches to teaching. She has been involved in projects which include using simulation stethosc…
Frank Wood
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Prospective students
I am always looking for excellent, academically-motivated, AI-inspired PhD students. Please visit the departmental web page for prospective students to apply. An excellent strategy for getting an offer to work with me is to propose research in your proposal that extends and expl…
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Programming Languages, Statistical & Theoretical Machine Learning
Gabriela V. Cohen Freue
Professor, CRC Tier 2 · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ USRA summer or fall
Application closed
Posted on February 16, 2021
But we may open new position for undergraduate students in the summer for this project (conditioning to funding). Stay tuned!! Research position to work on an interdisciplinary project, joint with Dr. Scott Tebbutt: Systems biology t…
My research work is interdisciplinary; merging components from mathematical statistics, genomics and medical sciences. In particular, I am interested in developing new statistical methods feasible for the analysis of high-dimensional datasets and robust to outliers usually encoun…
Gary Hinshaw
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: willing to supervise
Research Groups: Astronomy and Astrophysics; Research Area: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Research Field: Cosmology; Research Topics: Measuring diffuse background radiations
Georg Rieger
Associate Professor - Teaching · Faculty of Science
⭐ not accepting
Physics and Astronomy Education; Physics & Astronomy Education; Physics Education Research
Grant Charles
Associate Professor / BSW and MSW Awards Committee Chair · Gap Fill - SALA / Law / Social Work / IOF
⭐ Open to PHD students.
Child and Family Social Work | Health and Mental Health Social Work | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Social Work
Areas of Scholarship: young carers; interprofessional education and practice; child sexual abuse images online; practice education
Areas of Practice: child an…
Hal Bradbury
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
My research aims to improve our understanding of marine sedimentary environments through the combined use of isotope geochemistry and numerical modelling. Within this broad field my research focusses on early-stage diagenesis, and the chemical, mineralogical and petrological chan…
Harvey Wong
Associate Professor of Pharmacokinetics · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology; Molecular and Systems Pharmacology; Dr. Harvey Wong's research interests include applications of translational modeling and simulation techniques to optimize drug dose and regimen for new therapeutics, and to better understand emergence of cance…
Hasan Siddiqui
Assistant Professor | South Asian History · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ I welcome inquiries for graduate study from students interested in any of the following fields: early modern South Asia; intellectual history; the history of political thought.
Asian Studies. Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history. His research interests include the history of encyclopedias and genealogical registers and the history of political thought.
Henry Kilgore
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Currently recruiting graduate students, post doctorates and a research technician. To learn more about the labs research, check out kilgorelab.com.
Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology, Chemical biology, Cell biology, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence
Hila Gonen
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Note for prospective students: Please do not email me directly as I am not able to respond due to the volume of emails I receive. I will be recruiting graduate students this coming cycle for the fall of 2027. The deadline is December 15 2026, and you should apply directly to the department. If you a…
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Ian Affleck
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ not accepting
Condensed Matter; Superconductivity, Quantum Magnetism, Quantum Impurities, Topological Materials, Field Theory Methods in Condensed Matter Physics
Ingrid Stairs
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
Research Groups: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research Area: Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research Field: Radio Astronomy
Research Title: Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts
Irem Ayan
Assistant Professor of French | Program Chair, Certificate in French Translation · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
Sociology of translation and interpreting
Emotional labour and work alienation
Aesthetic labour and discrimination
Race, gender and identity
Ethnography and autoethnography in translation and interpreting
Fictional representations of translators and interpreters
The role of trans…
Isaac Soon
Assistant Professor of Early Christianity · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ I am open to supervising students in the areas of biblical studies especially as related to disability, gender, and enslavement in early Christian literature. Please contact me if you’d like to discuss the possibility of studying in our Department.
Research Interests:
Disability, Gender, Enslavement in the Ancient Mediterranean
Literate Workers in Ancient Christianity
Pauline Literature
Canonical and Apocryphal Gospel Literature
Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity
Suicide and Death in the Ancient Mediterranean
Research Area…
Isabella Huberman
Assistant Professor of French · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
Francophone Indigenous narrative arts, Environmental Humanities, Archives and cinema studies, Quebec-Indigenous studies, Decolonial and anticolonial theory, Research creation
James Charbonneau
Associate Professor - Teaching · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: N/A
Physics and Astronomy Education; Physics & Astronomy Education
James Scoates
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
Origin and evolution of silicate magmas and mineralization potential;
Applications of geochemistry, isotopic geochemistry, and geochronology to problems in petrology and mineral deposit geology;
Physical volcanology and geochemical evolution of Large Igneous Provinces;
Origin of …
Janice Yeung
Lecturer and Director, Office of Experiential Education (OEE) · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
Experiential learning, Pharmacy education
Janis A. McKenna
Professor Emerita · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: not accepting
Research Groups: Particle and Nuclear Physics
Research Area: Particle & Nuclear Physics
Research Field: Experimental Particle Physics
Research Topics: Heavy Quark Physics, Precision electroweak tests in Standard Model, CP violation
Research Title: Heavy Quark and Electroweak Phys…
Jason Min
Associate Professor of Teaching · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
Indigenous health, Pharmacy education, Primary care, Health equity
Jason’s educational scholarship is rooted in the PharmD curriculum in the domains of decolonizing and Indigenizing curriculum, interprofessional education, and health informatics. His research and educational coll…
Jasper Wall
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Research Area: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Research Field: Observational Cosmology, Large-Scale Structure, Galaxy Evolution; Research Topics: Origin and Evolution of Galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei, Unified Models, Statistics in Astronomy; Research Title: Large-scale structure and…
Jemima Nomunume Baada
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I am not accepting students or postdoctoral fellows at this time.
Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics | Climate: Science, Change, Action | Gender, Race, Class | Power, Colonialism, Justice
Jennifer Brown
Assistant Professor of Teaching · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Post-translational modifications, Pharmacy education
Jeremy Heyl
Professor and Head · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: not accepting
Research Groups: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Theoretical Physics; Research Area: Theoretical Physics; Research Field: Stellar and High-Energy Astrophysics; Research Topics: Compact Objects, Stellar Evolution, Cosmology, Dynamics, Strong-field QED
Jessica Kalra
Associate Professor (EL) · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
Active Recruitments: 1. Post-doctoral Fellow with expertise in lipid-based drug delivery systems.
2. Post-doctoral Fellow with expertise in complex in vitro modelling, 2D and 3D tissue culture.
Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology; Molecular and Systems Pharmacology; Pharmacy Education Research and Leadership; Cancer biology; Drug discovery; Pharmacy education; Curriculum development; Drug delivery systems; Complex in vitro models; Neuroprotection; Translational medicine a…
Jim Sun
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ We are accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position, please apply using this link! Application link: https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs/job/UBC-Vancouver-Campus---Vancouver-BC-Canada/Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow---Host-Pathogen-Interactions---Host-Directed-Therap…
Mycobacterium tuberculosis; host immunity to tuberculosis; tuberculosis drug discovery; host-directed therapy; macrophage biology; intracellular pathogens
Joanna Karczmarek
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Research Groups: Particle and Nuclear Physics; Theoretical Physics. Research Area: Particle & Nuclear Physics. Research Field: String theory. Research Topics: Matrix models, emergent spacetime, noncommutative geometry, time dependence. Abstract: Most recently, I have been working…
Joel A. Finbloom
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Drug delivery systems, Nanomedicine, Chemical biology, Antibiotics, Infectious disease, Probiotics, Biofilms, Nanotechnology, Bioengineering
Joel Saylor
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
Geology
Joerg Rottler
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Condensed Matter; Condensed Matter/Computational Physics, Soft Condensed Matter; Nonequilibrium statistical physics, polymer science, deformation and flow of disordered solids, nanoscale transport phenomena, computational materials physics
Jolene Reid
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ We have 1 Postdoctoral Position available in synthetic organic chemistry & catalysis (April, 2026)
Our group uses both computation and experiment to understand and predict reaction outcomes in organic chemistry.
Data-driven Reaction Optimization
Chemical syntheses are generally devised by practitioners with significant experience and yet, are often executed in a trial-and-…
Joseph Salfi
Associate Professor, UBC · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Quantum devices. Quantum physics. Condensed Matter Physics. Quantum Information.
My research group experimentally studies controllable solid-state quantum systems in order to answer fundamental questions about how nature behaves, and to investigate technological applications of q…
Joshua Alexander Folk
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Abstract: We are seeking undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs. Please contact me by email if you are interested in joining our group.
Condensed Matter
Quantum Electronics and 2D Materials
mesoscopic physics, quantum Hall effect, van der Waals heterostructures, quantum thermodynamics
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger
Associate Professor of French · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
Interests:
18th-century French literature
The Enlightenment
History of the book and print culture
Science and literature
Québec literature and culture
Current projects:
Édition critique du roman Le Philosophe sans prétention de Louis-Guillaume de La Folie (Paris, 1775).
“Contre N…
Judy Wong
Professor, Molecular and Systems Pharmacology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Cancer biology, Pharmacology and therapeutics, Genetics, Genomics, DNA structure and repair, Rare diseases
Julia Rubin
Associate Member - Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Science
⭐ Prospective Students: I usually have openings in my group for excellent new graduate and undergraduate students. If you often find yourself curious why things work in a certain way and want to explore problems in great depth, please consider applying. Please read this if you are interested in taking…
My research interests are in quality, security, and reliability of software and AI systems.
Julie Prytulak
Professor; Canada Research Chair Tier I: Isotope Geochemistry · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
I am an inorganic geochemist focused on the development and application of traditional and novel analytical methods, with specific expertise in isotope geochemistry. My research interests include:
- magma generation and evolution on Earth and other planets
- element transfer in s…
Karla Williams
Associate Professor, Molecular and Systems Pharmacology, Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes; Active Recruitments: Yes
Cancer biology, Metastasis, Molecular biology. Dr. Karla Williams' research program is focused on cancer metastasis and the development of evidence-based medicine for non-invasive methods of cancer detection and monitoring. Dr. Williams studies the cellular and molecular mechanis…
Karun Karki
Associate Professor / BSW Program Chair · Gap Fill - SALA / Law / Social Work / IOF
⭐ Dr. Karki welcomes the opportunity to mentor students interested in any of the above research areas.
Dr. Karki’s scholarly inquiries are grounded in social justice, equity, community-engaged research, and critical social work scholarship. His research examines how historically marginalized and minoritized communities – including immigrants, migrants, refugees, caste-oppressed co…
Kate Johnson
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Health outcomes research, Respiratory disease, Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Health economics, Data science
Katharina Natalia Piechocki
Associate Professor of French | Associate Head of Italian Studies | Associate Head of Romance Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
origin of seventeenth-century poetics in France and Italy, in particular opera and theatre
gender studies
Renaissance and early modern cartography, space, geography
translation studies
affect studies
ecocriticism (intersection of meteorology and poetics, in particular)
Kayla King
Professor; Canada Excellence Research Chair · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Host-pathogen interactions; biodiversity; ecology; evolution; zoonosis; Host-Pathogen Ecology and Evolution
Ke Zou
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: willing to supervise
Research Groups: Condensed Matter, Applied Physics; Research Area: Condensed Matter; Research Field: Molecular Beam Epitaxy Lab; Research Topics: Synthesis and design of quantum materials
Kenneth Harder
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Immunotherapy; role of phagocytes in disease and immunity; systems immunology; lipid nanoparticle delivery systems; cancer; vaccines; obesity; autoimmunity
Kevin D. Fisher
Associate Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology | Laboratory of Archaeology · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ There are funded research and training opportunities on this project for graduate and undergraduate students. In the summers I regularly run a UBC archaeological field school where students can join the KAMBE Project, working on excavation and geophysical survey at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios. Some…
archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean & Near East (esp. Neolithic through Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean)
spatial analysis of built environments and social interaction
urbanism and the social dynamics of urban landscapes
place-making, monumentality and power
digital archaeol…
Kevin Wei
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Accepting undergrad, grad students and postdocs - email to discuss open positions and research opportunities.
Cell and Developmental Biology, Evolution
Kirk W. Madison
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
Research Groups: Condensed Matter; Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Research Area: Condensed Matter
Research Field: Condensed Matter + Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (AMO),Ultra-cold atomic and molecular gases
Research Topics: laser cooling and trapping
Abstract: The …
Kirsten Hodge
Director, Pacific Museum of Earth · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting students
Geology, Geophysics, Geoscience Education
Kota Mizumoto
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Please contact me if you are interested in joining the lab as a PhD student or postdoc.
Cell and Developmental Biology. My research interest is to understand how neurons communicate with each other to form functional neurocircuits. We use C. elegans as a genetic model system.
Movement precision, a key feature of animal movement, is ultimately determined by the resol…
Kris Sigurdson
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Research Groups: Theoretical Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Particle and Nuclear Physics; Research Area: Theoretical Physics; Research Field: Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology; Research Topics: Particle Dark Matter, Early Universe Cosmology, Particle Cosmology, Cosmologic…
Larry D. Lynd
Professor, Health Outcomes · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No. Dr. Lynd is not taking on any new graduate students at this time.
Health economics, Orphan drugs, Pharmaceutical policy, Respiratory disease, Epidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology, Rare diseases
Laura Schummers
Assistant Professor of Health Outcomes, Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Public health, Health policy, Drug policy, Pharmaceutical policy, Pharmacoepidemiology, Reproductive health, Epidemiology
Leanne Currie
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I invite students with an interest in health informatics to contact me directly. I can be reached by phone 604-822-7485 or by email at Leanne.Currie@nursing.ubc.ca. Please contact me if you are a student who is interested in health informatics. Supervisor Eligibility: MHLP, MN, MSN - thesis, MSN - n…
Health informatics is a field in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used in the context of healthcare. Ideally, technology should support clinical care for both healthcare providers and recipients of care. The focus of my research is the application of IC…
Lindsay Eltis
Professor; Graduate Programs Associate Head · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Bacterial catabolism; aromatic compounds; steroids; biocatalyst development; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; enzymes; metabolomics; synthetic biology
Lindsey Heagy
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prospective students & postdocs
If you are interested in graduate studies or a postdoctoral position, please send me an email at lheagy@eoas.ubc.ca describing your research interests, and include your CV / resume along with your transcripts.
My research interests are in applied geophysics and inverse theory. My research group primarily focuses on inverse theory and machine learning with geophysical data, including electrical and electromagnetic data, as well as potential fields (gravity and magnetic data) to characte…
Lisa Osborne
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Accepting Graduate Students, Autoimmunity and Inflammatory Disease, Microbial Communities
Lorne A. Whitehead
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: not accepting
Applied Physics
Applied Physics
Research Interests
His research focuses on the application of novel geometrical approaches to applied physics challenges, with a focus on the interactions of electromagnetic fields with microstructures. In addition to the usual scientific publicati…
Ly Vu
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Systems Pharmacology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
*** Active recruitment – if you are interested in joining us, please send your CV, personal statement and contacts of three referees to Dr. Ly Vu.
RNA biology, Hematological malignancies, Stem cell biology/research, Leukemia, Cancer therapy/therapeutics, Molecular biology
Marc Horwitz
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Autoimmunity and Inflammatory Disease
During viral infection, the symptoms experienced are either a direct result of the virus infecting and damaging cells and tissue or a consequence of the activated inflammatory host immune response that was generated to pursue and remove the …
Margo Seltzer
Co-Head, Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I am not currently looking for new graduate students. I am, however, looking for Postdoctoral Researchers. If you have recently completed your Ph.D. or are completing one in the next six months, please read this before sending me email.
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Data Management & Mining, Systems & Networking
Margot White
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
My research interests center around carbon and nitrogen cycling in aquatic systems, and how these cycles are impacted by, and feed back into, global change. As a chemical oceanographer, isotope biogeochemist, and organic geochemist, the primary tools I use include the measurement…
Maria Tokuyama
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Endogenous retroviruses; chronic interaction between viruses and the immune system
Marie-Eve Bouchard
Associate Professor of French · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Not currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
Linguistic insecurity
Language attitudes and ideologies
Language contact
Language variation and change
Language and identity
Migration and diaspora
Language, race and ethnicity
French, Portuguese, Creole languages
Current Research Projects:
The use of English-origin verbs in Queb…
Marion L. Pearson
Professor of Teaching and Associate Dean, Students · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
Curriculum development, Pharmacy education, Dr. Pearson's research interests include curricular integration and SoTL inquiry into pedagogical and curriculum practices in the educational programs of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her most recent projects relate to health …
Mark Harrison
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes. Mark welcomes enquiries from prospective graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
Health economics, Decision-making, Health policy, Health technology assessment, Environmental health
Mark Jellinek
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Student Opportunities: I look for graduate students with strong backgrounds in geology/volcanology/petrology/planetary science (with additional substantial coursework in math, physics and/or chemistry), astrophysics, physics or engineering, who love the challenge of independent research and who are …
I run a very small group but the problems on which I work are varied. Current questions in which I am interested include (please also see publications):
1) Why do the largest volcanic eruptions in the geological record have an equivocal expression in Earth’s record of climate ch…
Martin Hirst
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Carcinogenesis; cellular differentiation; epigenomics; leukemia; molecular genetics
Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy
Matt Ramer
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ There are currently no openings in Dr. Ramer’s lab. Please contact Dr. Ramer with inquiries.
Cell and Developmental Biology
Matthijs A. Smit
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting students
My research focuses on constraining the dynamics and geochemistry of the lithosphere through time. Current research focuses on: 1) timing and duration of petrological processes; 2) formation of the early continental crust and mantle; 3) continental collision and exhumation; 4) co…
Maya Kopylova
Professor; Junior Norman Keevil Chair in Mineral Exploration · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
Establishing the composition and thermal structure of the mantle underlying the oldest portions of the earth (cratons) is one of the greatest challenges to earth sciences. Cratonic mantle down to depths of 200 km can only be studied directly as xenoliths sampled by rare and exoti…
Meaghan Anne Thumath
Assistant Professor, Presidents Academic Excellence Initiative (PAEI) in Public Health Emergencies · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Office is actively recruiting Trainees - See PROFILE tab
Actively recruiting Trainees (Masters, PhD and Post Docs) in the following areas:
- Public Health Emergencies (overdose/ toxic drug emergency, pandemics, climate emergencies)
- Public Health Nursing
- Health Equity and Social Determinants of …
Health equity during public health emergencies; Public Health Emergencies (overdose/ toxic drug emergency, pandemics, climate emergencies); Public Health Nursing; Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health; Public health systems & global health policy; Health misinformation,…
Meg Mills-Novoa
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ If you are interested in working with me as a postdoc or graduate student, please visit the Climate Futures Lab’s website for application resources and information regarding current advising capacity.
Climate: Science, Change, Action
Meigan Aronson
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting. We are seeking undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs. Please contact me by email if you are interested in joining our group.
Condensed Matter, Quantum Materials, Quantum criticality, strongly correlated electron materials, neutron scattering, materials by design
Michael D. Hasinoff
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
Research Groups: Particle and Nuclear Physics; Research Area: Particle & Nuclear Physics; Research Field: Experimental Subatomic Physics,low-energy particle physics; Research Topics: Physics Beyond the Standard Model-- A Search for the Dark Matter Boson X(17).; Research Title: Se…
Miffy Hok Yan Cheng
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ The LEGenD lab is actively recruiting postdoc, graduate and undergraduate students! If you are interested, please contact Miffy with a cover letter and CV at miffy.cheng@ubc.ca.
Nanomedicine, Drug delivery systems, Phototherapy, Cancer imaging, Gene therapy, Biochemistry, Theranostics, Biophysics, RNA therapeutics
Mitch D'Arcy
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I’m always open to applications from prospective graduate students and postdocs. Please get in touch if you're interested in working with me, and tell me about your background, research interests, and why you are interested in working with me and my group.
Please note that I am a member of the Germa…
Geomorphology, sedimentary geology, palaeoclimate, geochronology, remote sensing.
Mona I. Berciu
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise (scholarship only)
Condensed Matter; Strongly correlated systems; polarons, bipolarons, correlated electrons, spintronics, magnetic and transport properties; My interests include strongly correlated electron systems, polarons and electron-phonon coupling, diluted magnetic semiconductors, spintronic…
Moshe Rozali
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Research Groups: Theoretical Physics, Particle and Nuclear Physics; Research Area: Theoretical Physics; Research Field: Particle Theory, String Theory
Mostafa Abedinifard
Assistant Professor | Modern Persian Literature and Culture · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ I am currently accepting MA and PhD students working on modern Persian literature and culture in connection with my stated areas of interest above.
Research Area
Iranian Studies | Persian
Research Interests in Iranian and Persianate Studies
fiction, nonfiction, folk and popular culture
(global South) literary theory; literary histories; history of ideas & emotions
gender & sexuality; men and masculinities; critical diversity…
Nancy Ford
Associate Professor in the Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences in the Faculty of Dentistry · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise (scholarship only)
Medical Physics; X-ray imaging, micro-computed tomography, quantitative imaging, dual-energy, image quality, conebeam CT, dental x-ray imaging; Denoising preclinical micro-computed tomography images for improved regional analysis of the lungs and pulmonary vasculature in a mouse …
Naomi Zimmerman
Associate Member; Assoc. Prof., MECH; P.Eng.; CRC in Real-World Air Quality Sensing · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students. Opportunities: If you are interested in joining iREACH, whether as an undergraduate or graduate student, please email Dr. Zimmerman. For all student application inquiries, please put the phrase “Inquiry Re: Graduate Student Application, iREACH Labs” in the subject line. Due to fl…
The iREACH Lab, headed by Professor Naomi Zimmerman, is part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The iREACH Lab conducts research on the development and application of real-world-based tools to quickly and quantitatively assess the impact of our policy and technology dec…
Naveena Naqvi
Assistant Professor | Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ I invite applications from prospective MA students working on Persianate history and early colonial rule in South Asia.
I am a historian of early modern and modern South Asia. My research interests include the Persianate world (ca. 13th-19th centuries), with a focus on non-courtly writers in regional contexts under early colonial rule. My broader fields of interest span the history of political Is…
Nicole Krentz
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Systems Pharmacology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Diabetes; Metabolism; Genetics; Stem cell biology/research; Cell biology; Molecular biology
Patrick Moran
Associate Professor of French · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
Medieval literature; 12th and 13th century narrative genres; Codicology and material philology; Literary theory and cognitive poetics; Modern genre fiction; Modern medievalism
Philip C.E. Stamp
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
Condensed Matter, Theoretical Physics
Piotr Kozlowski
Associate Member, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC; Professor, Departments of Radiology and Urologic Sciences, UBC; Research Scientist, Vancouver Prostate Centre · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: not accepting
Research Groups: Medical Physics
Research Area: Medical Physics
Research Field: MRI
Research Title: Development of Magnetic Resonance technology to study animal models of human diseases
Abstract:
Tumour microenvironment: development and application of MRI based techniques to stud…
Rachel White
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
I am an Atmospheric Scientist with a focus on large-scale atmospheric dynamics. I have a wide range of research interests within atmospheric dynamics; a major focus of my current work is studying how large-scale atmospheric dynamics (circulation patterns, planetary-scale atmosphe…
Ramón (Arturo) Antonio Victoriano-Martinez
Assistant Professor of Spanish · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.
Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Latin American and Caribbean films
Contemporary Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Comparative Caribbean Literatures
Renisa Mawani
Professor | Canada Research Chair | Colonial Legal Histories · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ Renisa is interested in supervising graduate students interested in South Asia and the South Asian diaspora; law and colonialism in South and Southeast Asia; the politics of water and hydrocolonialism; multi-species life worlds; imperial shipping; and climate catastrophe in the Indian Ocean world.
Research Area
Asian Studies | South Asia and the Diaspora
Research
My research is organized along two trajectories.
The first meets at the interface of critical theory and legal history. To date, my work has aimed to write histories of colonial dispossession aimed at Indigenous…
Renren Yang
Assistant Professor | Modern Chinese Popular Culture · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ I am accepting M.A. and Ph.D. students with solid preparation in Chinese literary studies, film and media studies, cultural studies, book history, or the interpretive social sciences, as well as training in literary and critical theory, comparative media histories and theories, digital humanities, o…
Chinese; reinterpretations of modern Chinese literary and filmic canons; Chinese popular culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; theoretical and historical approaches to celebrity authorship; material conditions and media forms of literary and cinematic communication…
Rich Pawlowicz
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
Please feel free to contact me about graduate opportunities, since they come up more often than web pages get updated. HOWEVER, be aware that physical oceanography is a mathematical field, which really does require being able to develop (and solve) partial differential equations i…
I am interested in understanding how the oceans work. Heat goes in (and out), fresh water and different chemicals are added (and subtracted), and resulting changes in density create pressure gradients that drive currents - which are in turn modified by the tidal effects of the mo…
Ricky Turgeon
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes. Active Recruitments: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/researcher/19265-turgeon
Pharmacy practice, Cardiovascular disease, Decision-making, Clinical pharmacy, Heart failure. Dr. Turgeon’s research focuses on integrating evidence and shared decision-making into clinical practice to optimize the care of people living with cardiovascular disease. His clinical f…
Rosemary J. Redfield
Emerita · Faculty of Science
⭐ Note that Professor Redfield is now retired and not accepting students or post-docs.
Cell and Developmental Biology, Evolution
Sabrina Leslie
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Single-molecule biophysics; DNA, RNA and protein interactions and dynamics; Therapeutic oligonucleotides; Nano-characterization and analytics; DNA super-structure; Polymers under confinement
Sara Harris
Professor of Teaching · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting students
Research Interests: Science education, climate science education. Research Areas: Climate Science, Environmental Science, Geoscience Education
Sara Milstein
Department Head | Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ I am open to supervising any promising students in the areas of biblical studies and/or ancient Near Eastern studies. Please contact me directly through email if you would like to discuss the possibility of studying in our Department.
Research Interests: Translation of the Bible; Literary History of the Bible; Scribal Culture and Scribal Method; Biblical and Mesopotamian Law; Mesopotamian Literature
Research Areas: Hebrew (Language); Near Eastern Studies; Translation; Literature; Law
Sarah Burke
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Research Groups: Condensed Matter
Research Area: Condensed Matter
Research Topics: Scanning probe microscopy, organic materials, nanoscale materials, surface physics, photovoltaics
Research Title: Nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic materials & Scanning Probe Microscopy
Scott Chapman
Affiliate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I am currently seeking students to work on a range of exciting projects in astrophysics, cosmology, and instrumentation. Major projects include the the CCAT submillimeter telescope project (top), Gemini Telescope GIRMOS spectrograph (2nd and third from top), the POLARBEAR CMB polarization experime…
Research in astrophysics and cosmology:
Infrared and Submillimetre-wave instrumentation, Adaptive Optics
Distant Submm Galaxies and ULIRGs,
Protoclusters of galaxies,
CMB lensing / B-mode polarisation
Local Group Archeaology/ Near-field cosmology
Our group studies and models dis…
Scott Oser
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ not accepting
Research Area: Particle & Nuclear Physics; Research Field: Experimental Particle Physics (dark matter, neutrinos); Research Topics: dark matter, statistical methods, neutrinos
Serena Wang
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ I am recruiting PhD and PhD-track Masters students applying in Fall 2026 to start in 2027. If you’re interested in working with me, please apply through UBC Computer Science and list my name in your application.
Algorithmic Game Theory, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Statistical & Theoretical Machine Learning
Shyh-Dar Li
Tong Louie Chair Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Chair of Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Drug delivery systems, Nanomedicine, Cancer therapy/therapeutics, Targeted drug delivery, Pharmacokinetics, Bioengineering. Dr. Li's research focuses on developing innovative drug delivery systems to enable novel therapies with biological drugs including peptides, proteins, antib…
Simon Bates
Professor of Teaching · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Physics and Astronomy Education
Simon Donner
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Prospective students and post-doctoral researchers should check my personal web site for current and planned areas of work, as well as for guidance for applicants.
Climate: Science, Change, Action
Stefan Reinsberg
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise (scholarship only)
Medical Physics, MR Imaging and Spectroscopy, MRI and MRS in Cancer, Image Method Development
Stephanie Waterman
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
Mixing processes in the oceans play a fundamental role in setting the global distribution of heat, energy, chemicals and marine organisms, and are directly linked to climate dynamics. Yet, there exists fundamental uncertainty in the rates and mechanisms of ocean mixing across a v…
Stephen Guy-Bray
Professor · Gap Fill - Faculty of Arts
⭐ I welcome graduate students in Renaissance literature, especially poetry, in queer theory and gender studies more generally, and in poetics (of any period).
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Medieval And Early Modern Literatures | poetics, Renaissance poetry, and queer theory
Steve Dierker
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Steven S Plotkin
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: willing to supervise. The Plotkin Research Group at UBC regularly seeks excellent students and post-doctoral fellows with outstanding academic records, and more importantly an unrelenting curiosity along with the motivation to experiment and investigate the consequences of a new ide…
Research Groups: Biophysics, Theoretical Physics. Research Area: Biophysics. Research Field: Theory, Computation, and Experiment. Research Topics: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Protein Misfolding & Aggregation, Molecular origins of neurodegenerative disease, Genetic network…
Stuart Sutherland
Professor of Teaching · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ PLEASE NOTE: I am not currently taking any graduate students.
PLEASE NOTE: I am not currently taking any graduate students.
My main research interest involves the elucidation and study of global paleoenvironmental change in the Paleozoic utilizing the disciplines of micropaleontology, palynology and sedimentology to identify changes in ocea…
Sweta Agrawal
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ The Agrawal lab is hiring at all levels! We are actively recruiting scientists at all levels, including postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students, and post-baccalaureate research technicians. NOTE: The Agrawal lab has moved to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver…
Comparative Physiology
Takamasa Momose
Professor, University of British Columbia · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics
Laser Spectroscopy/Astrochemistry
cold molecules, low temperature molecular physics and chemistry
Ultracold Neutrons & Molecules
Tara Ivanochko
Professor of Teaching; Associate Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting students
Advancing the UBC Strategic Priority - Experiential Learning; Embedding Open Source Computational Tools into Earth Science Courses; Climate Studies and Action Certificate; Community Engaged Experiential Learning; Educational Portfolios; Advancing Sustainability Education in EOAS,…
Thea Whitman
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Soil biogeochemistry; microbial ecology; fire; pyrogenic organic matter; biochar; carbon cycling; climate change. Pyrophilous (fire-loving) microbes. Fire effects on soil microbial communities. Microbial ecology of microhabitats.
Thomas J. Velenosi
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Systems Pharmacology · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Metabolics, Cancer therapy/therapeutics, Lipidomics, Mass spectrometry, Bioinformatics
Thomas Mattison
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Research Groups: Particle and Nuclear Physics; Applied Physics. Research Area: Particle & Nuclear Physics. Research Field: Experimental Particle Physics, Subatomic Physics. Research Topics: CP violation, B decays, Accelerator Physics, Next Linear Collider
Trevor Goodyear
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Dr. Goodyear is available to supervise graduate students in nursing and other disciplines (e.g., public health, sociology, interdisciplinary studies) whose thesis/dissertation work relates to his research expertise, including his current projects for which there may be opportunities to conduct sub-s…
Dr. Goodyear’s research program seeks to advance equity in youth mental health and substance use by leveraging critical health and social science perspectives (e.g., critical drug studies), emancipatory theories and methodologies, and the meaningful participation and expertise of…
Tyler Cassidy
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes\nI am recruiting MSc and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers; if you are interested in graduate studies or postdoctoral research opportunities, please get in touch!
Infectious disease, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacology and therapeutics, Oncology, Immunology, Quantitative systems pharmacology
Ulrich Mayer
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Not accepting students
My research concentrates on the geochemical evolution of low-temperature groundwater systems with a focus on groundwater contamination and remediation. Dissolved inorganic and organic chemicals are commonly affected by a variety of physical and chemical processes, which influence…
Valentina Radic
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting students
Prospective students
I am looking for highly motivated graduate students to join my team in tackling research problems on glacier mass changes and climate modeling. My long-term research objective is to develop a coupled atmosphere-glacier modeling approach, based on the blending…
The long-term objectives of my research program are to use state-of-the-art field, modeling and data analysis methods to quantify the response of mountain glaciers to climate change on regional and global scales, and to narrow the uncertainties in projections of glacial contribut…
Valery Milner
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Students Wanted: actively recruiting
Research Groups: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Research Area: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics
Research Field: Ultrafast Quantum Coherent Control
Research Topics: Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Abstract: ULTRAFAST QUANTUM COHERENT CONTROL OF MATTER.
We use high-power ultrashor…
Vaughn Chauvin
Clinical Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: No
chronic pain, opioid therapy, and opioid tapering
Vered Shwartz
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ 🧑🎓 Want to join my lab? Please read this before emailing me!
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Vesna Sossi
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Medical Physics; Medical Imaging - PET, Positron Emission Tomography Brain Imaging; Multimodality Imaging; Molecular and multi-modality imaging: Instrumentation, Algorithms, Data analysis, Neurodegeneration, Clinical and Preclinical Brain Imaging
Wilfred Jefferies
Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Tumour immunology; cancer immunotherapy; antigen presentation and vaccines; blood-brain barrier; angiogenesis
William G. Unruh
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ willing to supervise
Theoretical Physics; Gravity, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Computing, Cosmology; Quantum Mechanics and Gravity
William J. Bowman
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ If you’re interesting in working with me, check my lab website to see open positions and for advice on applying: williamjbowman.com/arli/.
Programming Languages
Wolfram Tetzlaff
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Current Opportunities in the Lab: Please contact Dr. Tetzlaff with inquiries.
Cell and Developmental Biology
Xin Tang
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ Join the lab ↗
status: recruiting
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Xun Liu
Assistant Professor · Gap Fill - SALA / Law / Social Work / IOF
⭐ GenEnv is currently recruiting PhD students through SALA’s PhD in Design, Technology and Society program. Prospective students interested in human-AI co-design, performance-informed design, agentic AI for urban systems, and interdisciplinary approaches to AI and the built environment are encouraged …
Xun Liu’s research explores how emerging technologies shape design methods, knowledge, and practice. Working across architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, she focuses on computational design and generative AI as creative and analytical tools. Her interdisciplinar…
Yongjin Park
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ I am NOT looking for a new student at the moment. I will post openings when they become available.
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Zhichun Jing
Associate Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ Dr. Jing has been supervising graduate students in the field of archaeology, specifically Chinese archaeology, early complex societies, and ancient technologies. Currently, he is available for taking new students who are interested in, but not limited to, the following subjects: the archaeology of e…
Research Area: Asia | Indigenous knowledge, environment, landscapes | Lifeways, deathways, ritual | Qualitative and/or quantitative methods; Research Stream: Anthropological Archaeology | Biological Anthropology
Ziliang Ye
Associate Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ actively recruiting
Research Groups: Condensed Matter; Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. Research Field: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. Research Topics: 2D Materials (Graphene, Transition Metal Dichalcogenide, etc.), Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy, Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscopy,…
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Alina Kulpa
Sessional Lecturer / RA AMPEL · Faculty of Science
⭐ N/A
Condensed Matter; Photolithography, microfabrication, micromachining, thin films
David Morrissey
Honorary Lecturer · Faculty of Science
⭐ N/A
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ioan (Miti) Isbasescu
ENPH Head of Software Systems · Faculty of Science
⭐ N/A
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Mark Carlson
Electronics Lab Engineer · Faculty of Science
⭐ N/A
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Mark Van Raamsdonk
Professor · Faculty of Science
⭐ N/A
Research Groups: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Theoretical Physics; Research Area: Particle & Nuclear Physics; Research Field: String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity; Abstract: In my research, I work towards a better theoretical understanding of elementary particle …
Pedro Esquinas
Honorary Lecturer · Faculty of Science
⭐ N/A
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Simin Bagheri Najmi
Lecturer · Faculty of Science
⭐ N/A
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Simon Wisnovsky
Assistant Professor · Additional Faculties & Departments
⭐ <p>The Wisnovsky lab is actively recruiting graduate students! If you are interested in joining our group, please reach out to Prof. Wisnovsky at <a href="mailto:simon.wisnovsky@ubc.ca" rel="nofollow">simon.wisnovsky@ubc.ca</a>.</p>
Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology, Molecular and Systems Pharmacology, Genomics, Cancer biology, Immunology, Leukemia
A. Fuchsia Howard
Associate Professor and PhD Coordinator · Additional Faculties & Departments
Dr. Howard’s program of research examines the health service needs of vulnerable, high-risk survivors of acute life-threatening illness, specifically, cancer survivors and survivors of critical illnesses. She conducts qualitative and mixed-methods research to understand patient-p…
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