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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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| Frank | Erica | Health sciences; Public and population health; Other education; Free accredited education; Preventive Medicine; Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Holocaust studies; Exile Reintegration | Any time / year round |
I perform occasional domestic and global intervention research on physicians' and medical students' health practices and their effects on patients, on climate change, THC policy in Canada and the US, the built environment and health, and other topics of interest where I can make a particular difference [more on that here: ... Read More |
| Ford | Nancy | Medical physics; Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Dental materials and equipment; micro-computed tomography; physiological gating; contrast agents; models of respiratory disease; image-based measurements; dental imaging; x-ray imaging | 2024, 2025 |
Contrast-enhanced micro-CT using novel targeted contrast agents Dual-energy cone-beam CT Dental radiography |
| Forbes | Connor | Urology; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Drug discovery, design and delivery; Endourology; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Kidney stones; Translational research | 2024 |
Dr Connor Forbes graduated from UBC Medicine and completed his residency in Urology at UBC. His fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre was a combined research and clinical fellowship including subspecialty training in Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH), Kidney Stones, and advanced minimally invasive surgical approaches to upper and lower tract urologic diseases. Dr Forbes'... Read More |
| Folk | Joshua | Physical sciences; 2D materials and Vanderwaals heterostructures; Quantum electronics; Thermodynamics of quantum systems; Strongly correlated phenomena; Topological phenomena; Quantum transport | Any time / year round |
Vanderwaals heterostructures; Entropy of quantum systems; Thermodynamic probes of 2D materials; Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Flynn | Alexandra | Law and society; Municipal Law; Local Governance; property law; Administrative Law; Experiential legal education; Socio-Legal Studies; Law & Cities | 2022 |
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| Fisher | Kevin | Prehistoric archaeology; Anthropology; Archaeological theory; Archaeometry; Archeological Data Analysis; Archeological Excavation Methods and Techniques; architecture; built environments; digital archaeology; Dynamics of Social Transformations; Mediterranean archaeology; Near Eastern archaeology; power; Social Life / Societal Life; social interaction; Urban Spaces and Urbanity; urbanism | Any time / year round |
Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project: http://kambe.cnrs.ubc.ca/ Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project: https://www.crane.utoronto.ca/ |
| Faulkner | Guy | Kinesiology; Community Health / Public Health; behavioral medicine; Exercise Psychology; mental health; physical activity and public health; physical activity interventions | Any time / year round |
Physical activity and public health - intervention development and evaluation |
| Fast | Danya | Social sciences; Substance Use; Substance Use Care; Adolescents and Young Adults; urban health; Urban Poverty; Medical Anthropology; Canada; East Africa | Any time / year round |
I am currently recruiting incoming PhD students with strong backgrounds in qualitative, community-based participatory action, and/or anthropological methods who are passionate about doing research broadly focused on youth, substance use and care. Students will carve out an independent project as part of one of the following studies: (1) The Treatment Trajectories Study explores young... Read More |
| Everhart | Avery | Health geography; Population geography; Geographic information system (GIS and GPS) applications; Health and community services; Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Social and cultural geography; Sex and gender-based analysis; Ethical, legal, and social issues in health, health systems and health research; Gender and health relationship; Health information systems (including surveillance); Geographic Information Science; Medical Geography; Demography & Population Studies; Critical Data Studies, Critical GIS & Digital Geographies; Transgender Studies; Intersectionality in Empirical Social Science; Health Services Research & Access to Healthcare; Community-Based Participatory Research; Feminist & Queer Theories; Measuring & Combatting STructural Racism | 2024, 2025 |
Geographic access to gender-affirming care (in multiple countries) through surveys, quantiative analysis and GIS Applying intersectionality theories to empirical social scientific and health sciences research Medical geography involving field work and community-based participatory or participatory action research |
| Etxabe | Julen | Law and society; Literature and critical theory; History and philosophy of law and justice; Law and humanities; Legal Theory and Jurisprudence; Human Rights; Political Theory; Law and literature; Cultural Studies | Any time / year round |
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| Etminan | Mahyar | Eye and Visual System Diseases; Pharmacoepidemiology; Epidemiology; Oular Epidemiology; Drug Safety; Epidemiologist Study Design; Causal Inference; Cancer Epidemiology |
Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, Drug Safety (all therapeutics areas) |
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| Eltis | Lindsay | Biochemistry; Genomics; Immunology; Microbiology; Bacterial catabolism of steroids and lignin; biocatalyst development; Enzymes and Proteins; Metabolism (Living Organisms); Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Any time / year round |
Understanding the degradation of cholesterol catabolism by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its role in pathogenesis. Developing new therapeutics that target cholesterol catabolism. Understanding the bacterial degradation of lignin and developing biocatalysts to upgrade lignin. |
| Ellis | Jason | Canadian history; Specialized studies in education; Educational policy; Education policy; history of education | Any time / year round |
Projects related to my current research: history of education and social mobility, opportunity; education and housing markets; political economy of metropolitan schooling; policy; space and historical GIS mapping; history of immigration and education; history of educational finance and taxation. Or any project in the history of education; education policy. |
| Elliott | Alison | Other health sciences; rare disease; genomics; Congenital Malformations; Skeletal and limb anomalies; Genetic Counselling; Health services implementation science |
Genetic counselling Birth defects Health Implementation Science |
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| Effros | Bonnie | Humanities and the arts; History of archaeology; Antiquarianism and collecting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Late antique and early medieval history and archaeology; Gender history and archaeology | Any time / year round |
history of archaeology, history of collecting and museums, medievalism, early medieval history and archaeology, early medieval gender |
| Douglas | Jennifer | Personal recordkeeping and archives; Person-centred archival theory and practices; Grief and recordkeeping and archives; Emotions and recordkeeping and archives; Archival arrangement and description | Any time / year round |
Personal and/or community archives and recordkeeping; grief and recordkeeping and archives; archival creation; archival representation. |
| Donner | Simon | Atmospheric sciences; Oceanography; Other media and communication; Climate Science; climate change impacts; Climate policy; Coastal Ecosystems; Marine Environment; Climate modelling and prediction; Science communication; Net-zero emissions; Coral reefs | Any time / year round, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
I am a climate scientist focused on helping the world prevent and prepare for climate change. I serve as a member Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body, which advises the Canadian government on climate change solutions, and was a lead author on the most recent assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments. My research program lies primarily at the intersection... Read More |
| Dong | Xuesen | Cancer progression and metastasis; Gene and molecular therapy; Prostate Cancer; RNA splicing and Gene Regulation; Drug development; Hormone Dependent Cancers; Endocrine Regulation; Premature Labour | Any time / year round |
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| Dollinger | Stefan | English language; Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Linguistic Variation and Society; Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Interactions; Language Rights and Policies; Bilingualism and Multilingualism |
Projects revolving around the recently completed www.dchp.ca/dchp2, possibly towards a third edition. For my work, see https://ubc.academia.edu/StefanDollinger for a nearly complete list and downloadable books/papers/squibs/reviews. |
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| Dierkes | Julian | Sociology, n.e.c.; All other social sciences, n.e.c.; Sociology of education; Public Policy; Mongolia; policy communication; contemporary Japan; digital diplomacy; supplementary education; mining policy; Japanese education; Democratization | Any time / year round |
Please note that the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs... Read More |
| Diamond | Adele | executive functions; prefrontal cortex; dopamine; working memory; self-control; self-regulation; cognition; COMT gene; Sex differences; stress; ACEs (adverse childhood experiences); ELS (early life stress); resilience; social determinants of health; ADHD; depression; PTSD; Physical Activity; the arts; mindfulness |
In traumatized youth, can prefrontal cortex communication with the amygdala be restored by a stress-reduction program (e.g., Niroga’s yoga-based mindfulness program)? Are the benefits of music for improving executive functions (EFs), mood, and quality of life greater when the experience of listening to the music is socially shared? Can the benefits of listening to the spoken word be as great... Read More |
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| Dennis | Jessica | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Administrative health data; Complex Trait Genetics; Electronic health records; Epidemiology; genetic epidemiology; Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases; Machine Learning; Mental Health and Psychopathology in Children and Youth; Precision Health; statistical genetics | Any time / year round |
The last decade has seen an unprecedented explosion of data. In medicine, data are increasingly being generated and linked across electronic health records, administrative databases, and biobanked samples. These resources hold tremendous promise for improving human health and achieving precision medicine, which will only be realized by thoughtful study designs and innovative analyses. ... Read More |
| Dee | Derek | Environment and natural resources economics; Food sciences (including food engineering); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; aspartic proteases; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biophysics; Enzymes and Proteins; food chemistry; food proteins; funtional amyloid; meat analogues; Nanomaterials; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; prions; protein aggregation; protein engineering; Protein Folding; protein nanofibrils; Proteins; psychrophilic enzymes | Any time / year round |
1. genetic and chemical modification to engineer functional amyloid 2. examine misfolding and aggregation of prion proteins 3. conversion of plant proteins into nanofibrils for use in foods 4. mechanisms of biofilm-associated amyloid fibril formation |
| Dao Duc | Khanh | Genomics; Mathematical biology; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling; combine mathematical,computational and statistical tools to study fundamental biological processes; regulation and determinants of gene expression and translation; Machine Learning for Biological Imaging and Microscopy; Database development and management; Biological and Artificial Neural Networks for geometric representation | 2023, 2024 |
Learning Spatial Representation from Brain recordings, in collaboration with Manu Madhav's lab at UBC |
| Daniels | Megan | Classical religion; Archaeology of Greece and the broader eastern Mediterranean; Late Bronze Age to Hellenistic Period; Ancient religion, sanctuaries, votive objects; Cross-cultural interaction; Ancient economies and trade; Divine kingship; Digital/data science approaches to the ancient world, particularly ancient religion; Migration and mobility across Eurasia; Phoenician culture; Ceramic analysis |
Ancient Mediterranean, 3000-100 BCE; ancient Greek religion; ancient economies, trade, and exchange; migration and mobility in the ancient Mediterranean; cross-cultural interaction in antiquity; archaeological ceramics; diversity and inclusion in teaching ancient history and archaeology |
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| Daley | Denise | Bioinformatics; Asthma; Complex Trait Genetics; Epigenetics; gene-gene and gene-environment interactions; Genetic Diseases; genetic epidemiology; Genetics of Aging; statistical genetics; Susceptibility Genes | Any time / year round |
Genetics and epigenetics of common complex diseases including peanut allergy, food allergy, asthma, atopy, healthy aging, aortic valve stenosis. Longitudinal analyses of childhood birth cohorts. The lab is currently initiating several targeted whole genome bisulfate sequencing projects and we plan on integrating data from a variety of omics approaches. We are also developing genetic risk... Read More |
| d'Arcy | Mitch | Earth and related environmental sciences; Geomorphology; Climate/palaeoclimate; Sedimentology; Geochronology; remote sensing | Any time / year round, 2021 |
Projects could involve field work, geochronology, geochemistry, modelling and remote sensing depending on what the student finds exciting and interesting. I’m particularly seeking students interested in working on these topics (but I’m open to other suggestions, too):
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| Cui | Wei | Law and legal practice; Taxation; Law; Social Organization and Political Systems; Chinese administrative law; Chinese legislative system; law and development; Law and political economy; tax and development; tax policy | Any time / year round |
The history of international taxation in light of the evolution of international trade Compare redistributive policies in democratic v. authoritarian countries Environmental taxation |
| Cretu | Edmond | Nano-technology; Electronics; Medical and biomedical engineering; microsystems and nanotechnology; sensor clusters and networks; Signal processing and control; Ultrasound Imaging; Microinstrumentation; Inertial measurement units; wearable systems | Any time / year round |
- Polymer-based transducer arrays for ultrasound imaging - applications in biomedical imaging, or for non-destructive testing of materials and structures - Advanced microsystems for inertial navigation - Sensor microinstrumentation systems - Signal processing and modern control applied to MEMS transducers - Wearable body sensor systems |
| Couture | Victor | Economics; Urban economics and transportation; Efficiency of urban transportation systems; Potential for e-commerce to reduce spatial inequality; Preferences for social interactions; Consequences of gentrification | Any time / year round |
Urban economics and transportation |
| Cornelis | Jean Thomas | Earth and related environmental sciences; Pedology; Biogeochemistry; Soil-Plant Interactions | 2022 |
- determine the extent to which changes in soil processes controlling carbon storage and (micro)nutrient supply are driven by land use - understand soil abiotic controls on microbial and root nutrient-acquisition strategies and their role in agroecosystem resilience and food quality - determine agroecosystem adaptation to climate change via bio-weathering processes induced by... Read More |
| Coops | Nicholas Charles | Forestry sciences; Telemetry (Remote Sensing, Radar); Space Techniques; Forestry Technology and Equipment; Plants and Forests | Any time / year round |
Application of remote sensing technologies to forest productivity and conservation issues |
| Cookson | Tara | Public policy; Development; Social protection; Care work; Gender equality | Any time / year round |
Gender and development; social protection; care economy |
| Ciocca | Valter | Auditory System; Perception and Representation; Recognition of Speech; Speech and Language Development Disorders; Auditory grouping of speech and non-speech sounds, also known as "auditory scene analysis"; perception and production of normal and disordered speech | Any time / year round |
Auditory scene analysis; perception and production of disordered speech |
| Chrostowski | Lukas | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Optics and Photonics; Micro and Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnologies; Manufacturing Processes; biophotonics; biosensors; optics; optoelectronics; photonics; quantum computing; semiconductor lasers; silicon photonics | Any time / year round |
silicon photonic device and circuit design, nanofabrication, quantum computing, single photon devices |
| Chiu-Duke | Josephine | Asian history; History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses; Chinese and Taiwanese history; liberal democracy; political thought and institutions | Any time / year round |
Traditional Chinese intellectual history or history of traditional Chinese thought and institutions. |
| Chen | Jiahua | Statistics; empirical likelihood; finite mixture model; sample survey; asymptotic theory | 2024 |
I have research problems related to empirical likelihood, mixture models, and survey sampling. It is up to students to explore and take adventures. |
| Chen | Jingyi | Algebraic and differential geometry; Differential Geometry, Partial Differential Equations | 2022 |
Geometric Analysis |
| Chen | Frances | Health psychology; social connection; social support; stress; coping; conflict and negotiation; hormones; Neuroendocrinology | Any time / year round |
I am currently recruiting graduate students and postdocs interested in:
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| Chapman | Mary Ann | Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Literary Policies; Arts and Technologies; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Social Determinants of Arts and Letters; Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Cultural Heritage; Artist or Author Social Identity; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Writing and Literary Experimentation; Poetry; Novel and Short Story; Essays; Gender Relationship; Audiences and Mass Media; Media and Democratization; Media and Society; Media Influence on Behavior; Civil and Social Responsibilities of Media; Stereotypes; Electoral System; Printing Art; Persuasion Strategies; Social Movements; Publics; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Social Networks; American Literature; Asian American Literature; Asian Canadian Literature; Suffrage; Public Pedagogy of the Arts; Public Humanities |
Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton); Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton); US literature; American Literature; print culture; periodicals; suffrage literature, literature of social movements; 20th century American poetry; 19th-century American literature; race, class and gender; Asian American literature; public humanities; public pedagogy; alt-ac careers
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| Chan | Kai | Natural environment sciences; Human Ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Applied Ethics; Values and Lifestyles; Sustainable Development; conservation finance; Conservation science; cultural ecosystem services; Ecosystem services; environmental assessment; environmental values; incentive programs; payments for ecosystem services; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability science | ||
| Cavell | Richard Anthony | English language; Media and Society; Media Influence on Behavior; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); media studies; media theory | Any time / year round |
Media and literature |
| Carvalho | Rick | Other health sciences, n.e.c.; Biomaterials; materials interfaces; bonding to hard tissues; materials development | 2025 |
Development and testing of innovative materials for dental and other medical applications |
| Carlsten | Christopher | Environment and Respiratory Diseases | Any time / year round |
We have several projects running at any given time (see the lab website and publications for a sense of what we do). |
| Caragata | Lea | Social oppression and marginalization; Counselling, welfare and community services; Social policy; welfare systems; Poverty; labour markets; lone mothers; social policy; youth provisioning | Any time / year round |
Current SSHRC on youth provisioning in low income lone mother led families |
| Cao | Yankai | Chemical engineering; optimization; Artificial Intelligence; Renewable energy systems; Process Control | Any time / year round |
My research group focuses on the design and implementation of large-scale local and global optimization algorithms to tackle problems that arise in diverse decision-making paradigms such as machine learning, stochastic optimization, and optimal control. Our algorithms combine mathematical techniques and emerging high-performance computing hardware to achieve computational scalability. ... Read More |
| Campbell | Kristin | Clinical oncology; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Biomarkers; Breast Cancer; Exercise Physiology; oncology; physical function; Physiology; Quality of Life and Aging; rehabilitation |
The role of exercise and physical therapy in oncology treatment and oncology care. |
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| Cameron | Maxwell | Political science; Political Regimes (Democracy, Monarchy, Federalism, Parliamentarism, etc.); Social Organization and Political Systems; Comparative Politics; Democratization; Latin America; Practical wisdom | Any time / year round |
Democracy and democratization in Latin America; Global challenges of democracy; political ethics |
| Byers | Michael | International relations; Public international law (except international trade law); international law; international relations; Outer Space; Arctic; Law of the Sea; Laws of War; International Human Rights; International Environmental Law | Any time / year round |
Governance of Outer Space; Sustainable Development of Outer Space; International Space Law; Astrophysics See: outerspaceinstitute.ca |
| Burton | Cole | Forestry sciences; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Animal; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity conservation; Ecological Monitoring; Landscape ecology; Mammal Ecology; Population and Community Ecology; Wildlife Management |
Terrestrial mammal conservation; wildlife population and community modelling; animal movement simulation; cumulative environmental impact assessment; adaptive management; human-wildlife coexistence; biodiversity trends |