NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

National Research Council of Canada (NRC)

Location Ontario
Date posted 2026-10-30
Advertised until 2026-12-29

NRC Postdoctoral Fellowships: Now Open! 

Applications are now being accepted to the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This program offers promising scientists access to world-class facilities and the opportunity to work on innovative research projects alongside expert researchers while developing their career. Areas of research include:  

  • Squeezing the Limits: A Quantum-Enhanced Raman Imaging Platform for Ultratrace Chemical Detection 
  • Next-Generation Battery Management System for Electrified Transportation and Energy Storage 
  • Uncertainty Quantification and Calibration for Large Language Models 
  • High-Yield Printable Polymers for Extreme Refractory Materials (HYPER Materials) 
  • Tesla-Valve-Based Air Inlet for Detonation Engines: Enabling Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Propulsion for Attritable UAS Swarm 
  • Innovating Algal Biotoxin Surveillance Through Digital Immuno-Polymerase Chain Reaction 
  • Engineered Recycled Glass as a Supplementary Cementitious Material for Low Carbon, High-Performance Concrete ─ Stabilizing the Supply Chain in Canada 
  • Development of a VSV-vectored vaccine for Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus as a biodefence medical countermeasure 
  • Immune Monitoring Using a Centrifugal Microfluidic System: Strategies Towards Workflow Implementation and Automation for Remote Precision Diagnostics 
  • Towards Certification-by-Analysis of Airframe Composite Structures using Physics-Informed Mesh Graph Networks 
  • Engineering resilient synthetic microbial consortia for high‑efficiency ethanol production from syngas 
  • Learning Driver Attention Strategies in Adverse Weather Using Graph-based Inverse Reinforcement Learning 

 If you have obtained your PhD (or equivalent) within the past three years - or expect to complete your PhD within six months of appointment* you are invited to visit the NRC website for additional information and submit an application online.    

The deadline to apply is January 7, 2027. Successful fellows may start their award between March 2027 and December 2027. 

*Exceptions may be considered to recognize personal or family related leave. Please connect with us using the contact information on the job poster to discuss it in more detail. 

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