PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Public Health in Canada

The Polar Remote Sensing Research Group at McGill University is recruiting at least one MSc student and one PhD student for the Fall 2027 intake. The project focuses on radar remote sensing of Arctic sea ice using multi-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) . Students will investigate Arctic sea-ice conditions through radar-based remote sensing, contributing to polar observation and the interpretation of multi-frequency SAR data. The work is based in Dr. Mallik Mahmud’s lab within the Polar R...

The Smart Building Materials Lab in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary is offering fully funded master's and PhD research positions in sustainable building materials. The research focuses on developing and applying low-carbon construction materials, advancing sustainable manufacturing, and supporting circular construction approaches. The positions also involve AI-enabled sensing and materials science, creating an interdisciplinary research environment at the interse...

The Olden Lab in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia is offering funded MSc and PhD opportunities in freshwater science in Vancouver, Canada. The positions focus on major freshwater research challenges, including freshwater conservation , climate change, sustainable water management, biodiversity, environmental DNA (eDNA), and machine learning. Students will be able to develop research connected to the conservation and management of freshwater...

This fully funded master’s opportunity is based in the Remote Sensing & AI Lab within the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria in Canada. The research focuses on mapping wildfire severity by combining satellite time-series data with LiDAR forest-structure data. The project offers training and research experience in remote sensing, geospatial analysis, GIS, wildfire science, environmental monitoring, and artificial intelligence. Students will investigate how Earth-observation dat...

McGill University’s Ghoshal Lab is seeking a Research Associate in the Department of Civil Engineering to study the characterization, performance, and behavior of nanomaterials used as foliar nanofertilizers. The project examines how nanomaterials move through and transform within plant tissues after foliar application. The researcher will assess the efficacy of nanofertilizers against industry-relevant current treatments using model crop plants and their commercial equivalents. The work combine...

Research Associate opportunity at McGill University in the Ghoshal Lab within the Department of Civil Engineering. The project focuses on the characterization of nanomaterials and how they translocate and transform in plant tissues after foliar application, with an emphasis on evaluating the efficacy of nanomaterials against current industry-relevant treatments. The successful candidate will contribute to laboratory research on nanofertilizers in model crop plants and their commercial equivalent...

Research Associate in Consolidation & Water Treatment at the University of Alberta will join a one-year, in-person research appointment based at North Campus in Edmonton. The role sits within the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences and the Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences area, working under the supervision of Dr. Aman Ullah. The project focuses on a Consolidation and Water Treatment research theme that aims to develop solutions to environmental challenges and curre...

Research Associate in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Alberta This full-time research associate role is based in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta, with work primarily taking place on North Campus in Edmonton. The project focuses on applying optimization algorithms to river basin planning and management, with a practical emphasis on daily reservoir operations for an irrigation district in Alberta. The successful candidate will work with a river basin manage...

Simon Fraser University is inviting applications to its research-focused PhD programme in Linguistics for the Fall 2027 intake in Canada. The programme is designed for scholars pursuing advanced research on how language is structured, acquired, used and varied across communities. Potential research directions include language acquisition and cognition , linguistic diversity and variation, meaning and language use, phonetics and phonology, linguistic theory, and computational approaches to langua...