Research Associate opportunities

Stored grain ecosystems, smart technologies for food processing, biological treatment of wastes, biological production of biofuels and bioproducts, remediation of contaminated soils & groundwater, instrumentation for soil & water monitoring, management of environmental odours, airborne disease transmission, bio-processing, infrared spectroscopy & electromagnetic imaging, animal and plant production environment, agricultural machinery systems, alternative building systems, surface engineering of polymeric materials, development of natural textile fibres, and tissue engineering.

Apply directly to Mandy Tanner

Electrochemistry, materials characterization with x-ray and electron probe techniques, photoelectrochemical energy conversion, conducting polymers, environmental chemistry, environmental analytical chemistry, instrumental mass spectrometry, metallomics, inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry/homogeneous catalysis, computational chemistry, scanning probe microscopy, conducting polymer electronics, systems micro-electronic materials and devices, nanotechnology, liquid crystals and liquid crystal nanocomposites, nanoparticle synthesis and characterization, solid-state NMR of inorganic materials, natural products chemistry, polyketide biosynthesis, vibrational spectroscopy and spectromicroscopy, protein purification, protein and RNA biochemistry, structural biology, cell signaling, cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, systems biology, infrared and Raman microscopy of biological samples and polymers, drug design synthesis and in vitro and in vivo testing, organic chemistry, organic synthesis, development of novel antimicrobials, peptidomimetics, glycotherapeutics, medicinal chemistry, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), transmission cryoelectron microscopy, X-ray diffraction of proteins, protein NMR, solid state chemistry, magnetism, crystallography and diffraction, intermetallics, crystal growth, machine learning. The position requires candidates with graduate degree or higher.

Apply directly to the Chemistry Department

Aging, applied statistics, arts-based health research, biostatistics, cancer, cancer epidemiology, child injury prevention, community-based and partnership based research, cultural safety, database development, data science, environment and health, epidemiology, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, First Nations/Métis/Inuit health and well-being, global health, health care delivery systems, health disparities, health economics, health policy, health services research, Indigenous studies, infection/ inflammation, knowledge synthesis, knowledge transfer, knowledge translation, machine learning, maternal and child health, mathematical modeling, mental health, military, veteran and family health, natural language processing, pharmaco-epidemiology, population health, program evaluation, psychiatric epidemiology, public health, qualitative health research, quality of care, quantitative social sciences, research project management, risk communication, rural and remote health service delivery research, social and behaviour sciences, social and indigenous determinants of health, spatial epidemiology/statistics, statistical and machine learning with applications in public or population health, strength-based research, trauma and resilience in children, vaccine epidemiology, vaccine hesitancy and vaccine safety and effectiveness.

Apply directly to Shannon Turczak

Sensors and actuators; biosensors; computational electromagnetics; microfluidics for biomaterial analysis; conducting polymer devices; biomedical imaging; electromagnetic inverse problems. Electromagnetic compatibility; design, simulation, and fabrication of MRI cables; radio resource management in femtocell networks; cognitive femtocell networks; power control in wireless networks. RF circuit design; microwave and mm-wave test; RFID system design; RF printed electronics; microwave systems; transmission line modeling. Photonics; biophotonics; solid-state lasers; laser spectroscopy and microscopy; nonlinear optics; optical coherence tomography. High voltage engineering; condition monitoring in high voltage engineering; energy harvesting in high voltage systems; numerical simulation of high voltage transformers. Power system protection, and electrical power distribution and distributed generation. Biomicrofluidics; single cell electronic analysis. Biological signal analysis, and biomedical instrumentation. Biomedical engineering; biological signals acquisition and analysis, particularly Electrovestibulography, EEG, EMG and respiratory sounds; multimodal brain imaging. Civil structural health monitoring, wireless sensing systems. Stochastic modeling of communication systems; Markov chains, queueing theory, stochastic ordering of queueing systems; matrix-analytic methods, call admission control; capacity analysis of CDMA systems; tail probabilities, channel coding, LDPC code; Gilbert-Elliot Markov channel modeling. 6G and beyond cellular networks (spectrum/resource management, coexistence, distributed wireless access, scheduling, power control, network selection, fronthauling/backhauling, cloud-RAN, massive MIMO, cell-free large MIMO, mobility/handoff management); reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. IoT; embedded systems; artificial intelligence applied to imaging and other systems; deep learning; high-performance computing; modeling and prototyping of power-electronic converters, advanced methods for modeling of switching power converters.

Apply directly to Electrical and Computer Engineering

Insect ecology in agricultural landscapes; ecosystem services, biodiversity, and landscape structure; insect dispersal; predator-prey interactions; trophic and guild interactions in multi-species assemblages; bottom-up and top-down regulation; trophic cascades; biological control; sustainable management of agricultural pests, aphid ecology; wheat midge, plant resistance, mechanisms of plant resistance against insect pests; pest management; ladybeetle ecology; natural enemy ecology; predator ecology; beneficial insects; sampling of pest populations; sampling of natural enemy populations; sampling of insects; cereal leaf beetle; parasitoid ecology; classical biological control; landscape ecology; crop protection; soybean aphid management; aphid ecology (A.C. Costamagna); Wild bees, taxonomy, phylogenomics, pollinator ecology, systematics, social evolution (J. Gibbs); Geographic distribution of disease vectors, arthropod-host interactions, livestock pest management, emerging and re-emerging arthropod-borne diseases (K. Rochon). Agroecology, beneficial insect ecology, community ecology, diversity-ecological function trends, insect behaviour, landscape characterization and conservation, palynology, pollination ecology, pollen limitation, pollinator nutrition (K. Bobiwash).

Apply directly to Erika Hart

Immunobiology of infectious disease; chronic inflammation; autoimmunity; rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease; leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, cancer immunotherapy; natural killer cell and natural killer T cells; dendritic cells; induction of transplantation tolerance; molecular signalling mechanisms; B lymphocyte biology; antibodies; T lymphocyte differentiation and function; neutrophils and allergic immune responses; regulation and function of Fc receptors; cytokines and cytokine receptors; host defence peptides; immune responses to parasites; Leishmania; Trypannosomes; cell therapy; bone marrow transplantation; mucosal immunity; animal models of chronic disease, immune deficiency and infection, vaccination strategies; bacterial infection, chlamydia; immune regulation; allergy; airway inflammation; neuroimmunology; pathogenesis of HIV infection; live-cell imaging host-pathogen interactions, immune cell migration, flow cytometry; immunophenotyping; immune biomarkers; lentiviral-based gene therapy; proteomics; systems biology. 

Apply to Silvia Panameno

Or directly contact faculty members: https://umanitoba.ca/medicine/immunology/faculty-staff#faculty

Dr. Roberta L. Woodgate invites applications for the full-time position of Research Associate at the College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg (Canada). Dr. Woodgate holds a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair (CRC) in Child and Family Engagement in Health Research and Healthcare.  Her research program, IN•GAUGE, represents her dynamic approach to involve children and youth and their families and interact with clinicians, caregivers, researchers, and decision-makers in the research process, and to be innovative in the exchange of knowledge.   Dr. Woodgate works with children (includes youth) and their families across a wide range of health conditions as well as diverse communities. Dr. Woodgate embraces a human rights-based approach that views the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental human right and promotes children’s right to participate and freely express their opinions and experiences, in accordance with their evolving capacities. Dr. Woodgate aims to improve child and family engagement in health research by studying it in a systematic manner how best to engage vulnerable children and youth and their families in health research. Dr. Woodgate’s work is important as improving child health outcomes depends on research that fully understands the experiences of vulnerable children and youth with under-researched health needs and their families  in health research.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in a health related or social science discipline and have related training and experience in the fields of child/youth health research and qualitative research. The successful applicant will should be familiar with variety of research methodologies (for example qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, arts-based and/or systematic review methodologies). The successful candidate must be able to work independently and collaboratively on Dr. Woodgate’s research projects. Familiarity and experience in writing research grants and conducting systematic reviews would be an asset. Demonstrated record in writing including peer reviewed publications and previous experience in research project coordination is required. 

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to:

• Critical appraises and synthesizes health literature.
• Prepare and manage ethics review and study access application submission; as well, complete study amendments as necessary and yearly renewals.
• Responsible for the smooth and efficient day-to-day operation of multiple research studies. 
• Monitor and document the progress of project activities from inception to completion and setting up structures for managing multiple projects. 
• Conduct research activities requiring a high level of autonomy including detailed operational preparation of research projects, collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and producing research reports, publications and presentations. 
• Co-author and/or assist in the in writing scholarly publications and grant proposals.
• Provide updates and progress reports to Dr. Roberta Woodgate, other members of the research team and stakeholders. 
• Participate in research team meetings. Acting as liaison, communicates and maintains research links with key stakeholders, decision-makers, research partners, and hospitals and community agencies.
• Provide training and support to graduate students and other research staff hired on the project.

Apply to Roberta Woodgate

Field of Research: finite element method, adaptive algorithms in FEM, structural analysis with FEM, meshless methods, general finite difference method, quantitative nondestructive evaluation with computational inverse methods;  multiaxial fatigue, fracture mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, composite materials, nano-mechanics,  mechanics of materials, nonlinear dynamics, legged locomotion robotics, biomechanics, computer assisted industrial engineering, computer integrated manufacturing, robotics, integrated CAD,CAPP,CAM systems, reverse engineering, system modeling and simulation, manufacturing process, forming and joining of metals, mechanical properties and repair of gas turbine alloys, teleoperation and robotics, control systems, actuators and fluid power, fracture mechanisms and mechanics, fatigue, acoustic emission, polymers, dislocation theory, corrosion, microstructure-mechanical properties of materials, numerical modeling and simulation of materials processing, aerospace materials, polymer and composite processing, composite joining and bonding, thermomechanical processing and microstructural characterization of metallic alloys, processing-microstructure-property relationship studies in nanostructured materials and process development optimization and physical metallurgy of joining of aerospace alloys, alternative energy and modeling of biomass energy conversion systems, high velocity kinetic turbines, icing of wind turbines, droplet and spray vaporization and combustion, turbulent flow, aerospace engineering, acoustic wave propagation, supercritical flow stability, complex flows, industrial multiphase flows, ice accretion measurement, steam condenser modelling, computational fluid dynamics, transport phenomena in porous media, core analysis, two-phase flow in condensers, heat transfer augmentation, experimental fluid dynamics, turbulent flows, laser doppler velocimetry, turbulence modeling, large-eddy simulation, direct numerical simulation, environmental fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, tissue engineering, nanomedicine, biocomposites for implantation, biointerface, gene/stem cell therapy, atomistic modeling and simulations, yielding and plasticity in nanocrystaline materials and metallic glass, diffusivity and mobility of grain boundary, structural health monitoring, structural repair and enhancement, energy harvesting and nano-technology, nanomechanics and computational material science, atomistic modeling and simulations, yielding and plasticity in nanocrystalline materials and metallic glass, diffusivity and mobility of grain boundary. Graduate degree or higher required.

Apply directly to Melissa Alexander

Ultra high vacuum, cryogenic instruments; scanning tunneling microscopy; ultrafast optical measurements and lasers; high resolution microwave and infrared spectroscopy; experimental condensed matter physics; nano magnetism (nanoparticles and thin-films); x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD); atomic probes of nuclear magnetism;, magnetism in constrained geometries; drug delivery and hyperthermia; nanocomposites; condensed matter theory and statistical physics; theory of chiral magnetic polaritons; mathematical physics; strongly correlated quantum systems; spin chains and quantum wires; non-equilibrium dynamics of ultra cold atomic gases; computational modeling of point defects in insulators; graphene-structured systems; atomic and molecular physics; electronic properties of nanostructures; spin transport in quantum systems; electron conduction in the DNA; spintronics; precision atomic mass measurements on stable and unstable nuclides using ion traps; beta-neutrino and beta-delayed neutron correlation measurements in the decay of trapped ions; time-of-flight mass spectrometry of biomolecules, experimental subatomic physics, lasers; laser trapping and cooling; ion trapping and cooling; radioactive beams; subatomic physics theory; high-energy astrophysics;  compact objects, pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants; gravitational wave and multi-messenger astrophysics; clusters of galaxies; active galactic nuclei; detection systems and signal processing for medical imaging applications; biological physics; microfluidics; medical physics; Ultrafast magnetism; THz spectroscopy; cavity spintronics and cavity magnonics; ultrasonic spectroscopy and wave physics of complex materials; lab-on-chip and point-of-care diagnosis.

Apply directly to Milijana Prstojevic

The overarching aim of Health Information Exchange Laboratory (https://healthinfoexchangelab.ca/) work is to understand the unique health-related needs of population groups, ascertain gaps in information and services, and work with groups to create information, resources, and services that will meet their targeted needs. We draw on a range of research methodologies in our work, including qualitative, quantitative, epidemiological, mixed-methods, website evaluation, intervention science, and integration of physiological measurements. Our work is funded by CIHR, SSHRC, CHRIM, Riverview Health Centre, and the University of Manitoba. We are hiring a research associate to join our vibrant and engaged lab, to collaborate in projects focused on key populations including people who are pregnant and postpartum, adults 55+, and healthcare providers working with perinatal people and/or adults 55+. Responsibilities include collaboration in literature synthesis, data collection, data analysis, manuscript write-up, review ethics board submissions, grant application development and submission, and knowledge translation initiatives, in partnership with the lab Director, members, and partners.

Apply directly to Dr. Kristin Reynolds

Department of Soil Science
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg  R3T 2N2
soilsci@umanitoba.ca

Field(s) of research
agricultural nutrient management and optimization,
agronomic biofortification of food crops with micronutrients,
nutrient dynamics, loading, transport and export from agricultural land,
root-soil-microbe interactions in rhizosphere,
dynamics of greenhouse gas exchange,
life-cycle analysis in agriculture,
pesticide fate monitoring, modelling and contamination risk assessment,
soil erosion, redistribution and its impacts,
tillage impacts on agriculture and the environment,
land use and land management,
water management in agricultural watersheds,
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal ecology,
nematology,
management of soilborne diseases,
remediation of contaminated land,
soil thermal regime, its impact on soil functions,
soil moisture regime and its impact on soil strength, trafficability, workability, and compaction,
soil structural dynamics and its impact on physical processes
modelling of field hydrologic and physical processes,
remote sensing (e.g., satellites and UAV) applications in agriculture and environmental monitoring and assessment,
decision support tools (DST) using open-source programming languages (e.g., Python),
agricultural meteorology and micrometeorology

Research Associate checklist
The candidate will:

• have a PhD
• synthesize the literature and suggest a plan of action for proposal development to the PI
• be technically competent in their field of study to undertake independent and team research at a world-class level
• evaluate data as it is collected and suggest changes to the direction of the research or the protocols
• be expected to prepare manuscripts and grant applications
• be expected to produce their own research paper in collaboration with other researchers involved in the project
• manage the day-to-day activities of the research project

Apply directly to Department of Soil Science