Postdoctoral Fellowship (09) at University of Alberta, Canada

This position supports the execution and advancement of pilot-scale thermochemical reforming research focused on the valorisation of agricultural, forestry, and municipal solid waste into hydrogen-rich syngas. The role operates within the framework of externally funded research projects, institutional safety and operational protocols, and collaborative research partnerships.

Key responsibilities include contributing to the commissioning and operation of a pilot-scale thermo-catalytic reforming (TCR) unit based on optimal parameters established at the laboratory scale; assisting in experimental planning, execution, data analysis, and troubleshooting; and supporting the preparation of process documentation such as P&IDs, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and technical manuals. This position involves close collaboration with graduate students (M.Sc. and PhD), providing technical guidance on experiments, thesis development, and manuscript preparation for peer-reviewed scientific journals.

The role also includes technical coordination through discussions with various teams and contractors during commissioning and operational phases. Additional responsibilities involve contributing to research proposal development, supporting conference participation through oral and poster presentations, managing procurement of laboratory and pilot-scale equipment through institutional purchasing systems, and maintaining active technical communication with international collaborators to address operational and design challenges.

Through these responsibilities, this position plays a critical role in ensuring the successful commissioning, operation, and scientific output of the pilot-scale facility, thereby strengthening the organization’s research capacity, external collaborations, and impact in sustainable waste-to­-energy technologies.

The University of Alberta invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar in Urban Geography to join the research project Age-Friendly Infrastructure in Canada’s Ethnic Neighbourhoods (AFICEN), led by Dr. Elmond Bandauko. This interdisciplinary project examines how age-friendly infrastructure is planned, distributed, and experienced in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods across Canadian cities, with a comparative focus on Edmonton, Toronto, and Vancouver. Grounded in the WHO Age-Friendly Cities framework, the project integrates GIS and spatial analysis with qualitative, community-based research to understand how age, ethnicity, and place intersect in shaping urban experiences for older immigrant adults. 

This project is part of the Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides research program, which is dedicated to building a new understanding of the challenges and opportunities that migrant integration poses for Canada (and all countries) locally and across borders. The Postdoctoral Scholar will play a central role in coordinating and advancing the research agenda. This includes leading fieldwork activities, integrating mixed methods, mentoring graduate research assistants, and contributing to high-impact publications and knowledge mobilization.

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Scholar (PDS) to join an interdisciplinary research program investigating the impacts of climate change–driven wildfires on indoor environmental quality and occupant health, and the role of engineering mitigation strategies in protecting buildings over the coming decades.

The project integrates building science, wildfire smoke exposure, ventilation engineering, air cleaning technologies, and machine learning–based climate prediction. The scholar will contribute to developing predictive frameworks that link future climate conditions to wildfire probability, smoke infiltration, indoor pollutant dynamics, and the performance requirements of next-generation filtration and air purification systems.

Consistent with comparable postdoctoral roles, the scholar’s time will be distributed across research execution, publication and proposal development, mentorship of trainees, and collaborative project delivery.

We invite applications for 2 Postdoctoral Fellow positions in machine learning and artificial intelligence, with a focus on multimodal foundation models and related areas. The successful candidate will join a collaborative research group lead by Dr. Xingyu Li, contribute to ongoing projects, and develop an independent research agenda aligned with the group’s broader interests.

Research areas of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• multimodal foundation models

• vision-language models and multimodal large language models

• trustworthy AI, robust generalization, and model evaluation

• efficient learning, adaptation, and representation design

• multimodal reasoning and structured understanding

This position offers the opportunity to pursue high-impact research in a fast-moving area of AI, work closely with graduate students, and publish in leading venues. The initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of extension for a second year.

The successful candidate will work closely with Dr. Feng Qiu and Dr. Xingfei Liu at the University of Alberta. The position focuses on empirical research in labor economics, with particular emphasis on immigration, labor market adjustment, and urban economic outcomes. The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to a research program examining how immigration shapes labor market outcomes, local economic development, and housing markets in Canada.

A central component of the research will involve working with confidential administrative data available through the Statistics Canada Research Data Centres (RDC), particularly the Immigration Database (IMDB). This postdoctoral fellowship is part of the larger research initiative “Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides,” funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) (PI for this sub-project: Xingfei Liu). The successful candidate will join a collaborative research environment and will have opportunities to develop independent research within the broader project framework.

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Scholar to advance research on in-duct ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI/GUV) technologies for mitigating airborne aerosol transmission in building ventilation systems. The position focuses on integrating computational and experimental approaches to precisely characterize UVGI performance under realistic HVAC operating conditions.

The scholar will play a leading role in developing next-generation engineering knowledge to support the design, optimization, and deployment of in-duct UVGI systems for healthy and resilient buildings.