PhD Opportunities in Geography in Canada

Concordia University in Canada is seeking two highly motivated PhD students to advance research on Scan-to-BIM-to-Digital Twin and uncertainty-aware methods for climate-resilient infrastructure systems. Under the supervision of Dr. Chih-Shen (Stephen) Cheng , students will work at the intersection of sensing, artificial intelligence, flood modeling, and uncertainty quantification. The research will support the assessment of flood impacts on buildings and power infrastructure and help facilitate ...

Killam Research Fellowships provide support to scholars of exceptional ability for major research projects with broad significance and widespread interest. The scheme is designed to give recipients time to pursue advanced research across a wide disciplinary range. The fellowship is open to work in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, and interdisciplinary studies that link these fields. It is therefore suited to researchers developing ambitious project...

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...

The Olden Lab in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada, is recruiting fully funded MSc and PhD students in freshwater science. Research areas include sustainable water management, climate adaptation, environmental DNA (eDNA), freshwater conservation, ecology, fieldwork, data analysis, and collaborative research. Funding includes CAD $40,000 per year for PhD students for four years and CAD $20,000 per year for MSc students for two years, ...

Simon Fraser University in Canada is offering fully funded MSc and PhD positions in remote sensing through the Synthetic Aperture Radar Laboratory in the Faculty of Applied Sciences. The research focuses on synthetic aperture radar, remote sensing, satellite data, programming, and radar-sensor research. Successful students may contribute to publishable research involving radar observations, satellite-data processing, and computational methods. Applicants should have a background in remote sensin...

EdeLab at Université Laval is reopening applications for three PhD positions . The laboratory, led by Associate Professor Edel Pérez-López, conducts research in molecular ecology, insect vector invasions, emergent plant diseases, and related microbiology and plant health topics. The positions are intended for future doctoral team members working on the remaining research projects after one of four previously available positions was filled. Interested candidates should consult the complete announ...

Two PhD positions are available at the Centre Eau Terre Environnement of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Quebec, Canada, on the theme of modelling energy flows and processes for industrial heat recovery . This project addresses the recovery and use of industrial waste heat, a major opportunity to improve industrial energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The work is motivated by the large quantity of rejected heat in Quebec’s industrial sector and by t...