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Available Research Projects
Last name |
First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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| Ellis | Jason | Canadian history; Specialized studies in education; Educational policy; Education policy; history of education | Any time / year round |
Projects related to my current research: history of education and social mobility, opportunity; education and housing markets; political economy of metropolitan schooling; policy; space and historical GIS mapping; history of immigration and education; history of educational finance and taxation. Or any project in the history of education; education policy. |
| Eltis | Lindsay | Biochemistry; Genomics; Immunology; Microbiology; Bacterial catabolism of steroids and lignin; biocatalyst development; Enzymes and Proteins; Metabolism (Living Organisms); Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Any time / year round |
Understanding the degradation of cholesterol catabolism by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its role in pathogenesis. Developing new therapeutics that target cholesterol catabolism. Understanding the bacterial degradation of lignin and developing biocatalysts to upgrade lignin. |
| Enfield | Katey | Cancer progression and metastasis; Tumour immunology; Cancer genetics; Lung cancer; tumour microenvironment; B cell responses in cancer; Lung cancer genomics; cancer immunology; Spatial biology | Any time / year round, 2025, 2026 |
Spatial organisation of the lung tumour microenvironment and associations with clinical outcomes. |
| Etminan | Mahyar | Eye and Visual System Diseases; Pharmacoepidemiology; Epidemiology; Oular Epidemiology; Drug Safety; Epidemiologist Study Design; Causal Inference; Cancer Epidemiology |
Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, Drug Safety (all therapeutics areas) |
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| Etxabe | Julen | History and philosophy of law and justice; Literature and critical theory; Law and society; Law and humanities; Legal Theory and Jurisprudence; Law and literature; Human Rights; Cultural Studies; Political Theory; history and philosophy of law | Any time / year round |
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| Everhart | Avery | Health geography; Population geography; Geographic information system (GIS and GPS) applications; Health and community services; Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Social and cultural geography; Sex and gender-based analysis; Ethical, legal, and social issues in health, health systems and health research; Gender and health relationship; Health information systems (including surveillance); Geographic Information Science; Medical Geography; Demography & Population Studies; Critical Data Studies, Critical GIS & Digital Geographies; Transgender Studies; Intersectionality in Empirical Social Science; Health Services Research & Access to Healthcare; Community-Based Participatory Research; Feminist & Queer Theories; Measuring & Combatting STructural Racism | 2024, 2025 |
Geographic access to gender-affirming care (in multiple countries) through surveys, quantiative analysis and GIS Applying intersectionality theories to empirical social scientific and health sciences research Medical geography involving field work and community-based participatory or participatory action research |
| Fast | Danya | Social sciences; Substance Use; Substance Use Care; Adolescents and Young Adults; urban health; Urban Poverty; Medical Anthropology; Canada; East Africa | Any time / year round |
I am currently recruiting incoming PhD students with strong backgrounds in qualitative, community-based participatory action, and/or anthropological methods who are passionate about doing research broadly focused on youth, substance use and care. Students will carve out an independent project as part of one of the following studies: (1) The Treatment Trajectories Study explores young... Read More |
| Faulkner | Guy | Kinesiology; Community Health / Public Health; behavioral medicine; Exercise Psychology; mental health; physical activity and public health; physical activity interventions | Any time / year round |
Physical activity and public health - intervention development and evaluation |
| Fels | S Sidney | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; Human Computer Interaction; biomechanical modeling of human anatomy; Machine Learning; new interfaces for musical expression; speech synthesis | 2025, 2026, 2027 |
see my lab website: hct.ece.ubc.ca |
| Feng | Haibo | Building construction engineering; Concrete, cementitious materials and other architectural and construction materials; BIM; Construction; LCA; sustainability; Wood Products; Zero energy / caron building | Any time / year round |
Zero carbon building solutions Urban planning for carbon emissions |
| Fisher | Kevin | Prehistoric archaeology; Anthropology; Archaeological theory; Archaeometry; Archeological Data Analysis; Archeological Excavation Methods and Techniques; architecture; built environments; digital archaeology; Dynamics of Social Transformations; Mediterranean archaeology; Near Eastern archaeology; power; Social Life / Societal Life; social interaction; Urban Spaces and Urbanity; urbanism | Any time / year round |
Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project: http://kambe.cnrs.ubc.ca/ Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project: https://www.crane.utoronto.ca/ |
| Flynn | Alexandra | Law and society; Municipal Law; Local Governance; property law; Administrative Law; Experiential legal education; Socio-Legal Studies; Law & Cities | 2027 |
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| Folk | Joshua | Physical sciences; 2D materials and Vanderwaals heterostructures; Quantum electronics; Thermodynamics of quantum systems; Strongly correlated phenomena; Topological phenomena; Quantum transport | Any time / year round |
Vanderwaals heterostructures; Entropy of quantum systems; Thermodynamic probes of 2D materials; Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Forbes | Connor | Urology; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Drug discovery, design and delivery; Endourology; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Kidney stones; Translational research | 2024 |
Dr Connor Forbes graduated from UBC Medicine and completed his residency in Urology at UBC. His fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre was a combined research and clinical fellowship including subspecialty training in Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH), Kidney Stones, and advanced minimally invasive surgical approaches to upper and lower tract urologic diseases. Dr Forbes'... Read More |
| Ford | Nancy | Medical physics; Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Dental materials and equipment; micro-computed tomography; physiological gating; contrast agents; models of respiratory disease; image-based measurements; dental imaging; x-ray imaging | 2025, 2026, 2027 |
Effects of e-cigarettes on respiratory and oral health: we will perform analysis of vaping e-cigarettes with and without nicotine to determine the impact on respiratory and oral health in a mouse model. We will also look at the chemicals that are deposited along the respiratory tract. Dual-energy cone-beam CT: we will develop a way to obtain dual-energy images from existing equipment... Read More |
| Frank | Erica | Health sciences; Public and population health; Other education; Free education; Preventive Medicine; Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Holocaust studies; Exile Reintegration; Democratization; Intervention Research | Any time / year round |
My primary research is on my invention, NextGenU.org, uniquely providing free education from first grade to PhD. Starting with a focus in the health sciences, NextGenU.org's accredited courses are being used every country, including through half of US medical schools. Founded/invented by me in 2001 (predating MOOCs by 7 years), we globally launched our first full course in March 2012.... Read More |
| Friedman | Jan Marshall | Other clinical medicine; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease; Birth defects epidemiology; Clinical genomics; Developmental Genetics; Genetics and Heredity; Neurofibromatosis | Any time / year round |
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| Friedman | Joel | Computer and information sciences; Algebraic Graph Theory; Combinatorics; Computer Science Theory | Any time / year round |
Computer Science Theory, Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algebraic Topology applied to Combinatorics |
| Frostad | John | Chemical engineering; Food sciences (including food engineering); Emulsions; Physics of Soft Matter; Agricultural Sprays; Food Physics; Interfacial Rheology; Novel Instrumentation; Foams | Any time / year round |
For more information, please see: http://food.chbe.ubc.ca/opportunities/ |
| Fundelius | Erika | Special education and disability; Self-determination within and beyond the Expanded core curriculum; Professional development including pre-service and in-service teacher preparation | 2026, 2027 |
Self-determination; Teacher preparation; Disabilities; Sexuality health education; State of Canadian specialized education and inclusion |
| Gaertner | David | Indigenous literatures; Media, visual and digital culture; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Indigenous Literature; Digital storytelling; Digital Humanities; Speculative fiction; Reconciliation; New Media; Indigenous Cyberspace |
Indigenous new media theory and design via CEDaR (Centre for Engaged Documentation and Research) the Indigneous new media lab I co-operate with Daisy Rosenblum. |
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| Gantois | Joséphine | Environment and natural resources economics; Ecological applications; Sociology; Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation; environmental economics; Applied Ecology; Rural Sociology; Causal inference; Applied Deep Learning | 2025 |
Deep Learning and Ecology |
| Giammarino | Ronald | Financial management; corporate theory; bank regulation; real options | Any time / year round |
Municipal corporate finance |
| Giang | Amanda | Atmospheric sciences; Mechanical engineering; Natural environment sciences; Atmospheric Pollutants; Chemical Pollutants; Climate Changes and Impacts; Public Policies; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection |
modelling the impact of technology and policy on the long range transport of global pollutants; developing tools and processes to support community-based environmental monitoring; understanding the role of scientific assessment in environmental governance, from global to local scales |
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| Gibson | William | Genetic medicine; Genetic Diseases; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; Epigenetics | Any time / year round |
Genetics of Rare Obesity and Overgrowth Disorders; Epigenetics of Body Weight and Body Composition; Genetics of Familial Intracranial Aneurysms. Please note that recruitment is extremely competitive. Applicants with external scholarship/fellowship funding are strongly preferred, as are applicants who already have an MD or MBBS degree, or who are applying to UBC's MD-PhD program.... Read More |
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