Canadian postdoctoral fellowships
- Banting postdoctoral fellowship
- Two year award with $70k annual value
- UBC internal competition deadline annually in June
- Killam postdoctoral research fellowship
- Two year award with $50k annual stipend and $4k travel
- Competition opens annually in the summer
- CITA National Fellowship
- Two year award that provides partial support for postdoctoral fellows working in theoretical astrophysics or closely related fields
- Application deadline is usually annually in early November
Canadian graduate research fellowships
- Apply to UBC for graduate school in physics or astronomy
- The UBC application deadline is generally in early December
- Note for international students: applicants with a B.Sc. or equivalent will apply to the Masters program with the opportunity to transition to the PhD program, and applicants with a Canadian M.Sc. are eligible to apply directly to the Ph.D. program
- Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Three year award for PhD students with $50k annual value
- Applications launch in the summer
- NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Program
- One year award for Masters students with $17,500 value
- Funding opportunities for international UBC students
Undergraduate research opportunities
- NSERC undergraduate student research awards (USRA)
- Pairs successful student applicants with faculty mentor.
- 16 weeks of funded summer research
- UBC internal deadlines for Form 1 are generally in January
- UBC-Imperial College London summer research exchange
- Offered to top NSERC USRA applicants
- The Erich Vogt First Year Summer Research Experience (FYSRE)
- Funds a UBC physics student for at least 14 weeks of research after completing first year physics courses
- Applications are generally due in late January
- Mitacs Globalink Research Internship
- Open to international undergraduates from: Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States
- Funds a 12-week research internship (from May to October), including travel and stipend
- Student applications are usually due in September for the following summer (i.e. Sept 2022 for Summer 2023) – search for ‘LIGO’ in the listed projects to find one with our team
- UBC WorkLearn
- Our team will sometimes have openings posted in the fall
- Honours thesis projects (ASTR 449/PHYS 449)