Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

This program offers promising scientists access to world-class facilities and the opportunity to work alongside multidisciplinary teams of expert researchers and technicians on projects of critical importance to Canada.

What is the program

Postdoctoral fellows will normally be offered a 2-year term appointment to the staff of the NRC and will receive a salary and benefits currently available to research officers. Salary is commensurate with the selected candidate's experience, is taxable and subject to other deductions. As a guide, the current annual PhD recruiting rate is typically at the AsRO level. Please see the RO salary scale for the current rates. In addition, postdoctoral fellows will be allocated a travel fund to support their work.

Who is eligible

  • Candidates should have obtained a PhD (or equivalent) within the past 3 years (PhD received on or after July 1, 2022) or expect to complete their PhD within 6 months of appointment.
  • *Exceptions may be considered to recognize personal or family related leave. Please connect with us using the contact information on the job poster to discuss in more detail.
  • Preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada.

How to apply

To learn more about the following projects and submit an application, please visit the NRC's careers page.

Requisition number Position title Subject
22976 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Prediction of Structure-borne Sound in Sustainable Low Carbon Building Constructions Controlling Structure-borne Sound in Sustainable Low Carbon Buildings
23055 Postdoctoral Fellowship, CALibration Unit 2 Deploying the NRC CAL2 System at the Canadian Gemini North Observatory, Performing Frontier Exoplanet Science with the World's First Facility-class Focal Plane Wavefront Sensor
22961 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Quantum Dot lasers for Quantum Communication and Computing Quantum frequency comb sources for quantum secured communications and computing applications
23056 Postdoctoral Fellow, Continuous Volumetric 3D Printing From VAM to VROOM: Roll-to-roll volumetric 3D printing
23057 Postdoctoral Fellow, ALMA Archival Research on Fragmentation in Star-forming Cores CANFAR Science Platform and Big Data: Exploring Prestellar Fragmentation
23040 Postdoctoral Fellow, Pathogenesis Mitigation Mitigating pathogenesis: The relationship between pyomelanin-like pigment production and hypervirulence of Acinetobacter baumannii
22977 Postdoctoral Fellow, Asphalt Low-Emission and Resiliency Technology (ALERT) Carbon Capture from Canadian Natural Gas for Production of Sustainable and Resilient Asphalt Mix
23041 Postdoctoral Fellow, Multi-modal Cognitive Health Assessment Facial mobility map: A tool to unveil hidden messages in cognitive health
23042 Postdoctoral Fellow, Hydrogen Fire Dynamics and Explosion Analyst "FIRESAFE - H2PIPE": Fire behaviour and Hazard Analysis Tool for Hydrogen Transport in Pipelines
22978 Postdoctoral Fellow, Fuel Cell Thermal Management for Sustainable Aviation Thermal Management System of a Fuel Cell Aircraft
22979 Postdoctoral Fellow, Microstructural Modeling of Aluminium Alloys Development of a Toolbox for microstructural modeling of age hardening aluminum alloys
21361 Postdoctoral Fellow, Hyperpolarization in Quantitative NMR and Quantum Information Processing Parahydrogen-Induced Hyperpolarization: Applications to Quantitative NMR and Quantum Information Processing
23068 Postdoctoral Fellow, A Canadian-Based Silicon Nitride Platform A Canadian-Based Silicon Nitride Platform
21395 Postdoctoral Fellow, Quantum Plasmonic Sensors Plasmonic Nanocavity for Quantum Sensing

Application deadline

December 18, 2024 - 23:59 Eastern Time. Successful fellows may commence their award at any time from March 2025 to December 2025.

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