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Currently Open Research Projects
| Position Title | Supervisor(s) | Faculty | Research Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research project in scientific computing | Carl Ollivier-Gooch | Faculty of Applied Science | Aerodynamics (except hypersonic aerodynamics), Computational fluid mechanics, Numerical computation |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Numerical Simulations - CFD | Dana Grecov | Faculty of Applied Science | Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation |
| Applications Open for UBC Master and Graduate Certificate in Global Surgical Care | Faculty of Medicine | Medical, health and life sciences |
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Faculty Members Recruiting Students
This list shows a selection of faculty members who are currently looking for new graduate students. They may have specified particular projects they wish to fill. Please ensure to review the departmental profile of each faculty member to learn more about their research interests and to ensure a good fit to your intended studies at UBC.
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First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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| Sly | Laura | Innate immunity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammation; macrophages; Cell signalling | Any time / year round |
Immunometabolism and gut health |
| Sladen | Douglas | Medical, health and life sciences; cochlear implantation among children and adults | Any time / year round |
Setting up a new virtual reality test environment |
| Sin | Nancy | Psychology and cognitive sciences; stress; Well-being; Adult development and aging; Social Aspects of Aging; Positive Emotions; Sleep; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health behaviours; Lifestyle Determinants and Health | 2025 |
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| Silberman | Lior | Mathematics and statistics; Mathematics; Analysis on manifolds; Automorphic forms; Group Theory; Homogenous dynamics; Metric geometry; Number theory; Representation Theory; Topology |
Mathematics, almost any field |
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| Sheel | William | Animal physiology, exercise; Kinesiology; airways, exercise, hypoxia, pulmonary physiology, respiratory muscle | 2026, 2027 |
Sex differences in airway anatomy and fatigue of the diaphragm. Effects of healthy ageing on the biology of exercise. Respiratory influences on neurovascular control. Other research projects that are of interest to trainees can often be developed in consultation with Dr. Sheel |
| Shan | Hongxia | Other education, n.e.c.; Immigration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning; Gender and work; Prof. learning |
Migration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning in Asia; Work and learning; |
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| Shadgan | Babak | Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Orthopedics; Sports medicine; Bone, skin and cartilage science; Central nervous system; Implantable Biosensing; sensor and system design, clinical application development; Wearable Biosensors; design and application development in health care and exercise sciences; Musculoskeletal, Sports & Exercise Medicine; Bone Fracture Healing; Spinal Cord Injuries | 2022 |
Implantable biosensors for monitoring organ health and function, Spinal cord hemodynamics monitoring, Bone healing research,
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| Semenoff | Gordon Walter | Particle physics theory (including aspects of field theory and string theory); Physical sciences; Moedal experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; String theory, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics; Theoretical and mathematical physics, the physics of elementary particles, condensed matter physics | Any time / year round |
quantum field theory, string theory |
| Scott | Douglas | Astronomical and space sciences; Physical sciences; Cosmology; Science and Knowledge | Any time / year round |
A wide range of topics within observational and theoretical cosmology |
| Schummers | Laura | Pediatrics and reproductive medicine; Health Services; Health Policy; women’s reproductive and perinatal health | 2024, 2025 |
Contraception policy: impacts on contraception use, pregnancy rates, pregnancy outcomes Conception cohorts: overcome methodological limitations in administrative population data to maximize pregnancy capture (including those ending before 20 gestational weeks)
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| Schoof | Christian | Geophysics; Ice and Snow; Transformation and Evolution of the Earth Surface; Fluid mechanics; Hydraulic; Asymptotic and Classical Applied Analysis; Differential Equation; applied mathematics; glacier hydrology; Glaciology; ice sheet dynamics | Any time / year round |
Glacier surging, glacier and ice sheet hydrology, modelling ice sheet dynamics |
| Schmidt | Julia | Occupational therapy; Trauma / Injuries; cognition; Neurological diseases; Cognitive impairment; neuroscience; rehabilitation; Self-awareness; Self-identity; Traumatic Brain Injury | Any time / year round |
Dr. Schmidt's research investigates the alteration in a person’s life and brain after traumatic brain injury. Specifically, she is interested in self-awareness and self-identity changes after injury and neurological underpinnings of injury and recovery. Additionally, she aims to determine effective rehabilitation strategies and mechanisms of recovery for people with brain impairment. |
| Schaeffer | David | Clinical oncology; Pathology (except oral pathology); Bioinformatics; cancer genetics; Cancer biology; Genomic rearrangements; genomics; Pancreas; Pathology; patient derived models | Any time / year round |
We conduct translational cancer research and have various ongoing projects focusing on Pancreatic Cancer. We are looking for students interested in a bioinformatics and bench top project studying genomic alterations and rearrangements and students interested in the development and use of patient deterived organoid models for translational research including drug screening, metabolism, and... Read More |
| Schabas | Margaret | History and philosophy of economics; Economics and business administration; History and Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; science studies; History of Early Modern Philosophy; British Empiricists | Any time / year round |
History and Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of Nature; Environmental Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy; British Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Science and Technology Studies |
| Sakakibara | Brodie | Clinical medicine; Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy; Gerontology; rehabilitation; Physical Activity; Physical Rehabilitation; Stroke Rehabilitation; Chronic disease self-management and prevention; Telehealth in people with stroke and cardiovascular disease; Complex behavioural intervention development; Clinical trial methodologies; Participatory and patient-oriented research | Any time / year round |
Chronic disease management telehealth/rehabilitation Stroke recovery Chronic care |
| Sadatsafavi | Mohsen | Respiratory diseases; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Respiratory Research | Any time / year round |
My lab (Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program - https://resp.core.ubc.ca/) is looking for a brilliant graduate student (MSc or PhD) for exciting projects in predictive analytics and decision modeling. The project is part of the $2M The Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded IMPACT study (... Read More |
| Sadarangani | Manish | Immunology; Microbiology; Clinical sciences; Antimicrobial resistant bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies | Any time / year round |
My research encompasses the full breadth of vaccine science via a unique combination of laboratory, clinical and epidemiologic research, integrating an exciting and innovative range of work. This breadth of expertise enables me to respond quickly to changing priorities, exemplified during the COVID-19 pandemic when I tackled diverse knowledge gaps rapidly and produced high quality results to... Read More |
| Routh | Supriya | Law (except legal practice and international law); Asian legal studies; Human rights including international human rights; Jurisprudence, legal theory, and critical studies; Labour and employment law including international labour law; law and development; Law and social justice; Law and society | Any time / year round |
social justice and law, law and development, legal theory, labour and sustainable development, public law |
| Rodrigues | Brian | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Diabetes; Cardiomyopathy; Heart Failure; Energy Metabolism; Cardiovascular metabolism; Endothelial cell - cardiomyocyte crosstalk; Vascular Endothelial Growth factors | Any time / year round |
The objective of our study is to examine the biology of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) during diabetes. To do this, we will use models of diabetes and various cellular approaches. Given the disturbing news that diabetes is rampant across the globe, and that its incidence will double in Canada by 2016, results from these studies will help in gaining more insight into the mechanism(s) by which cardiac... Read More |
| Robinson | Wendy | Other basic medicine and life sciences; Medical Genetics; Early (prenatal) human development; Placenta; Epigenetics; DNA methylation; Sex differences; Mosaicism | 2024 |
Sex differences at the genetic/epigenetic level in early development. Developmental origin of extraenbryonic tissues and their epigenetic programming Congenital Heart Defects and confined placental mosaicism
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| Rieseberg | Loren | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Plant biology; adaptation; crops; invasive plants; plant evolutionary biology; speciation; weeds | Any time / year round |
Adaptation, Speciation, Evolution of Crops and Weeds, Bioinformatics |
| Richman | Joy Marion | Dentistry and oral health; Evolution of developmental systems; Pedodontics; Congenital Anomalies; craniofacial development; chicken embryo limb development; Developmental biology; Embryonic Development; Evo-Devo; Growth Factors; orofacial clefting; reptilian tooth development; Cell signaling | 2024, 2025 |
Rare diseases - validation of disease-causing human variants in animal models Cleft lip - exploration of the human gene and environmental factors that lead to cleft lip using the chicken embryo model The molecular basis of the ever-renewing reptilian dentition using the gecko model |
| Rhemtulla | Jeanine | Forestry sciences; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Conservation & Poverty Alleviation; Ecosystem services; Landscape ecology & spatial analysis; Reforestation; socio-ecological systems; Temperate & tropical forest & agroforestry systems |
Forest restoration in tropical systems |
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| Reynolds | Graham | Intellectual property law; Copyright law; property law; Intellectual property and human rights; Intellectual property and climate change; Intellectual property and social justice; Technology and access to justice | 2025 |
Intellectual property and human rights |
| Renwick | Kerry | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics, n.e.c.; Teacher education and professional development of educators; Critical Pedagogy; Educational Policy; Familial Contexts; Health Education; Home Economics; Human and Social Ecology; Public health; teacher education | 2026, 2027 |
Health Literacy; Food Literacy; Teacher Education: Curriculum Development; Educational Policy |
| Reichstein | Zinovy | Group theory and generalisations; Algebra; Algebraic groups; algebraic geometry | 2024 |
Pure mathematics. |
| Rea | Christopher | Chinese literatures; Asian history; Chinese literature; Cinema; Print culture; translation; Humor | Any time / year round |
Modern Chinese literature, cinema, cultural history, print culture, translation |
| Quon | Bradley | Cystic Fibrosis; Epidemiology; Respiratory System; Proteomics; Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines; biomarker discovery and development; clinical epidemiology; health care economics; medication adherence | Any time / year round |
Cystic Fibrosis blood biomarker research and development - proteomics and transcriptomics Health outcomes research using the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Registry - clinical epidemiology |
| Puterman | Eli | Kinesiology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Acute exercise; cellular aging; chronic stress; Exercise interventions; Health Psychology; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; Stress physiology; telomeres | Any time / year round |
Our Fitness, Aging and Stress Lab at UBC is currently actively engaged in several different laboratory and community studies. In the laboratory, we are examining the impact of different lengths and intensities of exercise on biological and psychological responses to acute stressors. We are also examining the flip side of this - how chronic and acute stress impact biological and psychological... Read More |
| Protopopova | Alexandra | Other biological sciences; Social structures; rabbit housing; dog training; cultural differences in human-companion animal relationships; Animal behaviour; animal shelter; Animal welfare; community initiatives | 2026, 2027 |
Dog training; feral rabbit housing; vet service deserts. |
| Price | Morgan | Health Information Systems; Design; family medicine; eHealth Adoption; eHealth Requirements Engineering; eHealth Ux/UI Design; software engineering; decision support systems; Treatment Adherence; Consumer eHealth; Health System Improvement; primary care; Team-based care | Any time / year round |
Our lab is based in Victoria and connected to both the Island Medical Program and UVic Computer Science. We have a range of projects including: eHealth related projects connected to community based Electronic Medical record design and assessment of adoption; action research projects with partners related to health system improvement using EMRs in practice; consumer mHealth projects related to... Read More |
| Pleiss | Geoffrey | Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Computational methods in statistics; Spatial statistics; Numerical analysis; Machine Learning; neural networks; Gaussian processes; Bayesian optimization; reliable deep learning | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
See my website for research interests: https://geoffpleiss.com |
| Philbrick | Rachel | Classical literatures; Latin poetry; Greek poetry; genre; Textual authority and credibility; Intertextuality | Any time / year round |
I would be glad to work with graduate students who are interested in any literary, linguistic, or metrical aspects of Latin poetry, regardless of author or time period. My aim as an advisor is to help you sharpen your own research interests and to support you in setting and meeting big goals. |
| Pelech | Steven | Neurological disorders (except neuromuscular diseases); Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Adaptive immunity; Medical virology; Protein Microarrays; Protein Kinases; Protein Phosphatases; Protein phosphorylation; Cell signalling; Signal transduction; Cell division; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Neurological Disease; Cancer; Immunology | Any time / year round |
Investigation of protein kinase signalling networks in diverse experimental model systems, including growth factor-treated human cancer cell lines and meiotic maturation of sea star and frog oocytes. Investigations of protein kinase signalling networks in biopsied human tissues from patients with cancer, neurological disorders and diabetes. Development of microarray technology for monitoring... Read More |
| Pavlidis | Paul | Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Engineering and technology; genomics; Bioinformatics; cellular and molecular neuroscience; Genetics; disorders of the nervous system; single-cell genomics; Computational Biology; Gene regulation | Any time / year round |
Please visit https://pavlab.msl.ubc.ca/research/ for more information on our research. |
| Park | Keun | Smart city design and development and related analysis; Landscape studies (except architecture); Urban design and studies; Geographic information system (GIS and GPS) applications; Design of healthy, just, and resilient cities through urban nature; Environmental justice; Human Behaviours in public space; Urban planning; urban forestry | Any time / year round |
1. Access to urban green and blue spaces of varying sizes and forms
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| Paradis | Gregory | Design and analysis of sytems; Modelling and applications of systems; Production systems engineering; Systems engineering, n.e.c.; Programming in operational research (including linear and nonlinear programming); Combinatorial and network optimization (including programming and metaheuristics); Optimization under uncertainty (including stochastic and robust optimization); Bilevel optimization and game theory; Stochastic models (including queueing and simulation); Decisions and risk analysis; Forest management; Forest Operations; forest estate modelling; carbon budget modelling; Ecosystem services; cumulative effects; Operations Research; industrial engineering; computer science; forest economics; forest sector sustainability; mining sector sustainability | Any time / year round, 2025, 2026, 2027 |
Some recent and ongoing research project titles and synopses listed below, you give potential graduate students, postdocs, collaborators, and research partners an idea of the types of projects we are working on in the FRESH lab. Note that we have a long queue of new (not yet launched) project ideas staged and waiting for the right people and funding to converge—reach out to Dr. Gregory Paradis... Read More |
| Paltin | Judith | English language; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Artistic and Literary Theories; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Cultural Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Literature and Mind; Literature and Music; Modernist Studies | Any time / year round, 2022 |
I welcome graduate projects in modernism, understood broadly, twentieth-century Anglophone literatures, postcolonial, cultural, and materialist studies, intersectional work in feminism, gender, race, and sexuality, and media and technology studies. |
| Paat | Joseph | Mathematical optimization; Programming in operational research (including linear and nonlinear programming); Mixed integer programming; Combinatorial optimization; Polyhedral Geometry; Convex optimization | 2021, 2022 |
Using machine learning techniques to learn heuristics for mixed integer programming. Extending continuous optimization algorithms to work for mixed integer problems. Designing strong mixed integer relaxations for generic integer programs. |
| Oya | Simon | Privacy-enhancing technologies; Cybersecurity and privacy technologies; Signal processing for security and privacy; Encryption and cryptography; Mathematical optimization; Privacy; Computer Security; Anonymous communications; Machine learning security and privacy; Searchable encryption; Statistical analysis | Any time / year round |
Machine learning privacy, searchable encryption, anonymous communication systems, differential privacy |
| Oviedo-Joekes | Eugenia | Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Substance Use; person-centered care in addiction; injectable opioid agonist treatment; Harm reduction | Any time / year round |
Under the supervision of Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, the student will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers and health care providers conducting studies on person-centered care in addiction and public health. This work is situated under the Person-Centered Care in Addiction and Public Health research program, an exciting and growing body of work that seeks to develop... Read More |
| Ovie | Glory | Teacher education and professional development of educators; Education systems, n.e.c.; Educational administration, management and leadership; Crisis Management in Schools; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization; Social Justice Education; Mental Health and Wellness and Education; Teacher Education Research | Any time / year round |
Projects related to my current research: Crisis management; educational leadership and administration; Black studies; mental health and wellness and education; social justice, teacher preparation, equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization. |
| Oser | Scott | Physical sciences; dark matter; Elementary Particles; neutrinos; particle physics; statistical methods for physics; gravitational wave astronomy; LISA | Any time / year round |
dark matter, SuperCDMS |
| Ortner | Christoph | Numerical analysis; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Partial and ordinary differential equations; Computational chemistry; Condensed matter modelling and density functional theory; Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation; Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing; Applied Analysis; Multi-scale Modelling and Coarse-graining; Molecular Simulation; Scientific Machine-learning, in particular for applications in multi-scale modelling | Any time / year round | |
| Ollivier-Gooch | Carl | Aerodynamics (except hypersonic aerodynamics); Computational fluid mechanics; Algorithm Development for Computational Fluid Dynamics; Applied Aerodynamics; Numerical analysis; Unstructured Mesh Generation; Error and Stability Analysis for Unstructured Mesh Methods; Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools; Fluid mechanics | 2024 |
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| Oberle | Eva | Public and population health; Other education; Adolescent Mental Health/ Social-Emotional Wellbeing; Positive youth development; Promoting mental health and wellbeing through schools; Risk and resilience; Research with population-level data; Social and emotional learning in schools | 2025 |
Quantitative research using data from the Middle Years Development Instrument and other HELP-surveys. Topics all focus on the development of children and youth and include trajectories of wellbeing over time, associatios between social-emotional competence and academic success, differences in social-emotional and mental wellbeing among population subgroups. Examining aspects of... Read More |
| Nolde | Natalia | Statistics; Statistics and Probabilities; Applications in finance, insurance, geosciences; Multivariate extreme value theory; Risk assessment | Any time / year round |
Financial risk analytics |
| Nielsen | Torsten | Clinical oncology; Pathology (except oral pathology); Biomarker development; Breast Cancer; Cancer Diagnosis and Detection; Cancer of the Musculoskeletal System; Clinical trials; Epigenomics; Experimental Therapeutics; Immuno-oncology; Tissue-based diagnostic technologies; Translational research; Genetically engineered mouse models | 2026 |
Sarcoma fusion oncogene biology, epigenomics and experimental therapeutics; Cancer biomarker development: in situ multiplex diagnostics, nanoString profiling, immuno-oncology |
| Nicolaou | Savvakis | Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging; Computed Tomography; Artificial Intelligence; Emergency Radiology; Trauma Radiology; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | Any time / year round, 2021 |
Emergency/Trauma Imaging, Computed Tomography, Machine Learning, Healthcare Applications |
| Nguan | Christopher | Urology; Computer engineering; Civil engineering, n.e.c.; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Medical devices; Artificial tissues engineering; Biomedical robotics; Image guided surgery systems; Applied immunology (including antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies); Transplantation immunology; kidney transplantation; patient reported outcomes; medical apps for mobile health; machine learning analytics of medical imaging; machine learning analytics of complex medical data outcomes; Robotics; quality in healthcare; environmental impact of healthcare; Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare; planetary health intersection with healthcare | Any time / year round |
planetary health in healthcare artificial intelligence in medicine and surgery and imaging |