Open positions

Postdoctoral Positions

Note: We currently don’t have funding for additional postdoctoral positions. We can only welcome you if you have a fellowship. I’d be happy to support you after you apply to our group. Take a look at the Killam and Banting Fellowships

PhD Studentship

Note: We currently don’t have open positions for PhD students without funding

Masters Studentships

Note: We currently don’t have open positions for Masters students without their own funding

Research in Medicine or Residency Research Projects

If you are a medical student or resident that wishes to do a research project in health data science (or more specific infectious disease/medical microbiology computational work) please send me an email and we have a chat!

Undergraduate Project Students

If you are interested in pursuing a summer internship or honours project, please send me an email early in the academic year so we can try and apply for funding to pay you (e.g., NSERC USRA). State why you are interested, the sort of project you would like to do, and attach your CV. If you are applying to fulfill specific program requirements (e.g., honours), note this in your email!

Current projects that would be a good fit (although if you have your own idea please get in touch):

  • Infectious Disease Bioinformatics/Genomic Epidemiology: Working with clinicians, public health experts to continue development of the Evolving Threat Detector. This is a tool that is designed to identify and report new evolving resistance to antibiotics. Great fit for any student interested in front-end development, microbial bioinformatics, machine learning, and/or working as part of an international consortia.

  • Computational Social Science/Health Data Science: Working with sociologists to perform NLP and network-based analyses of radicalisation using a large custom corpus scraped from social media websites.

  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: largescale evolutionary analyses

Past open positions

You find the past job openings here:

  • CANMOD Postdoctoral Fellow

  • USRA: Computational Social Science. Using Natural Language Processing methods to investigate online radicalisation. Building on existing work with colleagues in Sociology (e.g., recent qualitative work). Would be a great fit for any student interested in NLP, computational social science, social media data, or radicalisation.