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 minimum salary for a new PhD graduate is $73,333. 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, 2018) or expect to complete their PhD within 6 months of appointment
- 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 jobs page:
| Requisition number | Position | Project title |
|---|---|---|
| 11451 | Thermal management of hybrid-electric propulsion systems | Development of Additively Manufactured Thermal Management Systems for Hybrid Electric Propulsion System for Future Aviation |
| 11452 | Ship airwake aerodynamics | Ship motion and aerodynamic coupling for maritime helicopter piloted simulation |
| 11457 | Image Processing & ML/AI Applied Fire Research | A Smart Firefighting Tool using Image Analysis |
| 11475 | Electrocatalysis for Electrochemical Energy Devices | Rational design and development of innovative single-atom catalysts and free-standing electrodes for electrochemical energy storage and conversion applications |
| 11453 | Linking Van der Waals physics with strong-field photonics | Linking Van der Waals physics with strong-field photonics. |
| 11488 | Revealing the chemistry of our cosmic neighbourhood | The chemistry of our cosmic neighbourhood revealed with GRACES and GHOST |
| 11454 | Optical 3D printing | Fast tomographic 3D printing of micro optical elements |
| 11455 | Biomedical Image Analysis / Digital Pathology | Quantitative 3D mapping of the inflamed brain in Alzheimer's disease |
| 11489 | GaN Electronics | GaN r-f electronics for rovers on Venus |
| 11490 | Metamaterial integrated photonics | Resonant metamaterial integrated photonics |
| 11456 | Computational Cognitive Neuroscience | Integrating user physiological state with virtual reality intervention for personalized digital therapies |
| 11491 | Translational Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) modeling | Exploiting the tissue "transparency" in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectrum to develop non-invasive, imaging-guided pharmacokinetic models of biotherapeutics |
Application deadline
March 19, 2021 - 23:59 Eastern Time. Awards will be announced the end of April 2021. Successful fellows may commence their award at any time from May 3, 2021 to December 10, 2021.
