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.
Last name |
First name | Research Interest | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | Erin | Canadian contemporary art, Queer art , Feminist art histories, Activism and visual culture, Performance studies, Movement culture | Any time / year round | |
| Seow | Chun Yong | Airway smooth muscle, Contraction mechanism | Any time / year round |
Smooth muscle structure and function, contraction mechanism, lung mechanics, asthma |
| Semenoff | Gordon Walter | Theoretical and mathematical physics, the physics of elementary particles, condensed matter physics, String theory, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, Moedal experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN | Any time / year round |
String theory, quantum field theory |
| Seidel | Marc-David | Organizational Theory, Distributed Trust Technologies (Blockchain, etc.), Early life factors role in later life workplace outcomes, Social networks and organizational decision making, Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship | Any time / year round |
Primarily interested in students with an interest in developing projects about the organizational theory of distributed trust technologies (such as blockchain) and its impacts on society. |
| Scott | Douglas | Cosmology | Any time / year round |
A wide range of topics within observational and theoretical cosmology |
| Schoof | Christian | glaciology, ice sheet dynamics, glacier hydrology, applied mathematics | Any time / year round |
Glacier surging, glacier and ice sheet hydrology, modelling ice sheet dynamics |
| Schabas | Margaret | History and Philosophy of Economics | Any time / year round, 2019, 2020 |
History and Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of Nature; Environmental Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy; British Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Science and Technology Studies |
| Santos | Alessandra | Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies , Latin American Literatures and Cultures , Brazilian Literature and Culture, Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Cultures | Any time / year round | |
| Samuels | Anne Lacey | plant cell biology, plant cell walls | Any time / year round | |
| Rusk | Bruce | Early Modern China, Confucianism, Authentication Studies | Any time / year round | |
| Rubin | Julia | software engineering, security and privacy, energy-efficiency , developer productivity , mobile and cloud-native software | Any time / year round | |
| Rottler | Joerg | Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Soft Matter | Any time / year round | |
| Roosa | John | History of Indonesia | Any time / year round | |
| Rodrigues | Brian | Cardiovascular metabolism, Diabetes, 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 |
| Rizzotti | Patrick | theatre design, production design, augmented reality, narrative visual experience , design for new works, devised work, site specific experiences | Any time / year round | |
| Rieseberg | Loren | plant evolutionary biology, adaptation, speciation, crops, weeds, invasive plants | Any time / year round |
Adaptation, Speciation, Evolution of Crops and Weeds, Bioinformatics |
| Rideout | Elizabeth | Sex differences, Metabolism, Cell Signaling Pathways, Development, Lifespan and Aging, Stress Responses, Drosophila melanogaster | Any time / year round | |
| Richardson | John | ecology, freshwater biology, food webs, streams, forest | Any time / year round | |
| Rhodin | Helge | Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning | Any time / year round | |
| Ravanbakhsh | Siamak | machine learning | Any time / year round | |
| Ranger | Manon | Neurodevelopment, Early-adversity, Biomarkers of early stress exposure, Brain development | Any time / year round |
I am conducting novel translational research to advance the health and care of children and their families. Specifically, my long-term goal is to improve the care of infants born preterm (< 37 weeks gestation). To accomplish this, I am leading a research program to address the impact of early stress, such as pain, inflammation, clinical treatments and maternal separation, on the developing... Read More |
| Quon | Bradley | 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 |
| Quandt | Jacqueline | Any time / year round | ||
| Qian | Yue | Demography, Sociology, Family Studies, Gender Studies | Any time / year round | |
| Putnins | Edward | Chronic mucosal inflammation, Monoamine oxidase Inhibitor development as anti-inflammatories | Any time / year round | |
| Puterman | Eli | Health psychology, Stress physiology, Acute exercise, Exercise interventions, Physical activity, Physical literacy, cellular aging, telomeres, chronic stress | Any time / year round, 2019 |
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 |
| Price | Morgan | 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, 2020 |
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 |
| Price | Richard | International Relations, Ethics and World Politics, International Relations Theory, Global Norms, Moral Psychology | Any time / year round | |
| Priatel | John | Autoimmunity, Immunodeficiency, Tumour immunotherapy, Viral infection, Host-pathogen interactions | Any time / year round |
T cells form an integral part of our immune system and are essential to fight off most infections. To perform these roles, T cells must be able to discriminate between various antigens and elicit the appropriate type and the appropriate strength of response. Excessive T cell responses towards harmless antigens may result in dangerous allergies while attack against healthy cells or tissue can... Read More |
| Poole | David | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Decision Analysis, Preference Elicitation, Reasoning under Uncertainty, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Relational Learning | Any time / year round | |
| Pliska | Benjamin | Facial growth and development, sleep medicine | Any time / year round | |
| Pelech | Steven Daniel | Protein microarrays, Protein kinases, Protein phosphatases, Protein phosphorylation, Mitosis, Meiosis, Cell signalling, Signal transduction | 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 |
| Peck | Jamie | Economic geography | Any time / year round | |
| Pawlowicz | Richard | ocean physics, properties of seawater, geophysical fluid dynamics, nonlinear waves | Any time / year round | |
| Page | Brent | Drug Discovery, Drug Development, Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Cancer, Target Engagement, Cell Signaling | Any time / year round, 2020, 2021 |
Several drug discovery and development projects are available for new and exciting targets involved in cancer cell signaling and metabolism. |
| Nunez | Desmond | Age Related Hearing Loss , Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Recurrent Acute Otitis Media | Any time / year round | |
| Nolde | Natalia | Multivariate extreme value theory, Risk assessment, Applications in finance, insurance, geosciences | Any time / year round |
Financial risk analytics |
| Nojeh | Alireza | Any time / year round | ||
| Nimmon | Laura | Health professions education, Qualitative research, Interdisciplinary team communication, Patient centered care, Chronic disease care, End of life care, Collaborative pratice, Teamwork, Families and Caregivers, Adult education | Any time / year round, 2020 |
Negotiation and power dynamics on chronic disease healthcare teams; Team coordination of health literacy for chronic disease patients; Patient centered collaborative practice in chronic disease care. |
| Nguan | Christopher | kidney transplantation, patient reported outcomes, medical apps for mobile health, machine learning analytics of medical imaging, machine learning analytics of complex medical data outcomes | Any time / year round | |
| Nelson | Brad | Cancer immunology and immunotherapy, Oncolytic viruses, T cell engineering, Clinical trials, Cell therapies | Any time / year round | |
| Nan | Ning | digital business, evolvable information systems, blockchain governance, online community, complex adaptive systems | Any time / year round | |
| Murphy | Michael | Microbial metal metabolism, Bacterial pathogenesis, Alternatives to antibiotics | Any time / year round | |
| Munzner | Tamara | visualization, information visualization, visual analytics, data science | Any time / year round | |
| Mulpuri | Kishore | Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip, Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease, Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis, Pediatric Hip Conditions, Methodological Research, Orthopaedic Engineering , Patient Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance | Any time / year round | |
| Mortenson | Ben | Accessibility, Assistive technology, Occupational therapy, Caregiving, Social participation, Spinal cord injury, Outcome measures, Robotics | Any time / year round |
My research focuses on four overlapping areas: assistive technology, social participation, caregiving and outcome measurement. My work is centered on four main populations: assistive technology users, informal and formal caregivers, individuals with spinal cord injury and residents in long-term care. |
| Morin | Gregg | Any time / year round | ||
| Moran | Patrick | Medieval French Literature, Reader-Response Theory, Genre Theory, Narrative Theory, Material Philology, Comparative Medieval Literature, Arthurian Romance, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Interactive Fiction, Cognitive Poetics, Medieval Narrative Literature, Old French, Medievalism | Any time / year round |
Medieval French literature, primarily (but not limited to) narrative literature of the 12th and 13th centuries. Medievalism in contemporary literature. |
| Mohseni | Madjid | Drinking water quality and treatment, Advanced oxidation, UV based water purification and treatment, Water re-use, Electrochemical water treatment processes | Any time / year round | |
| Mitchell-Foster | Sheona | cervical cancer screening, HPV, rural and remote reproductive care, Indigenous women's health, perinatal substance-use, reproductive health of women living with HIV, culturally safe care, reproductive screening in LMIC | Any time / year round |