Open positions

Open positions#

Important#

  • All positions / studentships are in theoretical and/or computational physics and/or chemistry, or mathematics. While we do collaborate a lot with experimental groups, we don’t do experiments ourselves.

How to apply?#

  • If you wish to apply for a funded studentship, there are a few things to know:

    1. You should contact me informally to check if there are openings.

    2. Formal application has to be done through the University and the respective department, in our case either Chemistry or Physics & Astronomy depending on your background. The departmental web pages (linked above) provide the list of formal admission requirements

  • Postdoc application.

    1. If a position has been advertised, just follow the instructions.

    2. If no position has been advertised: Please send a CV as a PDF file and provide a brief motivation by email.

Important

To repeat: For all positions, strong background in theoretical / physical / computational chemistry or physics, or mathematics is expected.

Current opening(s)#

  • No funded postdoc openings at the moment.

  • No funded PhD / MSc openings at the moment.

Summer students and undergraduate projects#

  • If interested, contact me.

Visiting students#

  • Over the years we’ve hosted visiting students from Italy, the Netherlands, China, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, and so on. If interested, contact me.

Scholarship Programs#

  • Students: If you are interested in applying for an NSERC scholarship, contact me.

  • Postdocs:

    1. Domestic: If you are interested in applying for an NSERC or CIHR postdoctoral scholarship to work in my group, please contact me well ahead of any deadlines.

    2. Non-Canadian/non-permament resident: If you already have a scholarship and wish to work in my group, please contact me.

    3. For exceptional postdoctoral candidates foreign or domestic: If you wish to apply for the Banting scholarship, please contact me well ahead of the deadline, preferrably in late winter / early spring. The Banting fellowship is extremely competetive, but we’ve had success.

Where have our former students and postdocs gone?#

Oxford, Berkeley, McGill, Toronto, Several Max Planck Institutes, UBC, UCSB, U Calgary, Helsinki, FU Berlin, TU Eindhoven, Juelich, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, NJIT, IBM, Bergen, TU Muenchen, Fudan, supercomputing centers in several countries, National Institutes of Health, CWI - the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, and so on.

Our students and postdocs have won top prizes including the Polanyi Prize, NSERC Banting Fellowship, Marie Curie Fellowships, Academy of Finland Fellowships, various EU fellowships, Volkswagen Fellowships, NSERC Bell Fellowship, Humboldt Fellowship, CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship, and so on.