Postdoc Opportunities in Canada

The National Research Council Canada is offering a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ottawa through its Digital Technologies organizational unit. The project focuses on uncertainty quantification and calibration for large language models (LLMs) , with applications to trustworthy artificial intelligence and human-AI interaction. The research will develop methods for measuring uncertainty in both LLM-generated outputs and intermediate model representations. Potential applications include halluci...

The National Research Council Canada (NRC) is seeking a postdoctoral fellow in Ottawa to develop low-cost, high-efficiency propulsion for attritable uncrewed aerial system (UAS) swarms. The project, “Enabling Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Propulsion for Attritable UAS Swarm,” will investigate a novel inlet architecture for detonation engines. The research combines computational fluid dynamics with experimental validation to assess detonation-engine inlets and their potential for affordable, efficien...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in inorganic and organometallic polymer synthesis for advanced ceramics in Ottawa, Canada. The two-year project, High-Yield Printable Polymers for Extreme Refractory Materials (HYPER Materials) , addresses materials for defence, aerospace, space, and advanced energy systems. The fellow will design, synthesize, purify, and characterize transition-metal-containing preceramic polymers, coordination-complex precursor systems, a...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Halifax, Canada, through its Metrology Research Centre. The two-year project, Innovating Algal Biotoxin Surveillance Through Digital Immuno-Polymerase Chain Reaction , will develop molecular and analytical tools for detecting harmful algal blooms and cyanobacterial toxins. The fellow will establish droplet digital PCR assays targeting toxin-biosynthesis genes, then develop immuno-ddPCR methods that combine antibody-based...

The National Research Council Canada is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Low-Carbon Concrete Materials for a two-year term in Ottawa, Canada, within the Construction organizational unit. The project, Engineered Recycled Glass as a Supplementary Cementitious Material for Low Carbon, High Performance Concrete — Stabilizing the Supply Chain in Canada , will investigate ground recycled glass as a scalable supplementary cementitious material. The research supports cement decarbonization and circular ...

International Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunities at the University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa in Canada is highlighted as a destination for international researchers seeking postdoctoral fellowship opportunities. Applicants should first identify a suitable research supervisor whose expertise aligns with their proposed research interests. Interested researchers must review the university's official requirements for registration, renewals, and fellowship procedures. The post does not provid...

The Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity at the University of New Brunswick is hiring a full-time, in-person Postdoctoral Fellow in Agentic AI for Cybersecurity in Fredericton, Canada. The research project is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sajjad Dadkhah in collaboration with NRC Canada. The project focuses on agentic artificial intelligence for cybersecurity, including LLM-based agents and multi-agent orchestration, knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG/Graph-RAG), neuro...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Composite Structure Virtual Testing in Ottawa, within its Aerospace organizational unit. This two-year fellowship will develop a Certification-by-Analysis framework for composite airframe structures. The project will create a Physics-Informed Mesh Graph Network solver that combines deep learning with governing physics to model complex composite failure mechanisms. The intended outcome is a fast, reliable and data-efficie...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in Ottawa for a two-year project on next-generation battery management systems for electrified transportation and energy storage. The project will develop an NRC-built battery management system integrating a flexible cloud-connected architecture, fiber Bragg grating optical sensor arrays for real-time thermal mapping, and an active cell-balancing prototype that transfers energy between cells rather than dissipating it as he...