Are you a PhD holder interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships? Cornell University, Ithaca, New York is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships in various research fields. Apply today to pursue your research interests in a stimulating academic environment!
1. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Associate to join our project team using a model-experiment (ModEx) approach to explore the exciting prospect that significant dormant-season plant nitrogen (N) uptake occurs in northern forests. The postdoc will work with our project team to interpret and model field measurements of 15N tracer studies of cold-season N uptake at two experimental sites and explore the significance of cold-season uptake in altering the coupled carbon-nitrogen (C-N) cycle under a future climate.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Postdoctoral Associate will conduct research on protein engineering, including bioconjugation chemistry, protein/enzyme engineering, expression, purification, and characterization to perform in human health, food, and agriculture applications. The Postdoctoral Associate will utilize techniques such as: computational and experimental rational design, plasmid construction, analysis of Sanger and Whole Genome sequence data, transformation of vectors into expression systems, Western blot and other characterization methods of engineered proteins. Projects include developing methods to genetically engineer bacteriophages and study their proteins and host interactions. The scientist will also design methods to immobilize enzymes and characterize their performance under conditions of intended use.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Department of History invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position beginning August 1, 2025. The fellowship carries a stipend of $62,000/year. We seek a scholar with a PhD in History who is also grounded in theoretical and methodological public history approaches, in particular Museum Studies, Historic Preservation, or digital history. This position will involve developing new directions in public history teaching and research, and joining an interdisciplinary group of scholars and students whose projects focus on historic sites, digital media, museums, libraries, archives, and/or local communities. Geographic area and historical era open, but we prefer candidates who focus on climate or energy history, African American women’s history, or LGBTQ+ history in the Americas.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This position resides with the Lab’s BirdCast team in the Center for Avian Population Studies. The BirdFlow team is an interdisciplinary group of ecologists and computer scientists based at the Cornell Lab and University of Massachusetts Amherst. The overarching Postdoctoral Program at the Cornell Lab is currently home to a vibrant community of several dozen postdoctoral associates working across all Lab units, and we strive to provide a supportive and collaborative environment for this community that fosters personal growth and career advancement.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Postdoctoral Associate will conduct research in the lab of Ping Wang (https://blogs.cornell.edu/wang/) to understand the molecular genetics of insect resistance to insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). Specifically, the Postdoctoral Associate will use biochemical and molecular approaches and genomic and proteomic technologies to map and identify genes involved in Bt toxin resistance in the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni. When new resistance genes are identified, the postdoc will functionally confirm the mutation by gene editing and study the biological functions of the genes. The Postdoctoral Associate will have ample opportunities to improve and enhance research skills and knowledge, and to develop expertise in areas of Bt resistance and insect molecular genetics research, while contributing to the current research projects in the Wang Lab.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
6. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Rose Postdoctoral Associates are competitive fellowship awards that support innovative, independent research by early career scholars of exceptional promise. Rose Postdoctoral Associates pursue cutting-edge scholarship, while fostering intellectual interaction among Lab programs and experts from across the University. Any area of inquiry related to the Lab’s mission “to interpret and conserve the Earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds and nature” is potentially appropriate. Activities involving research and/or outreach spanning several Lab programs are particularly encouraged, and some postdoctoral associates are co-mentored. Projects that foster links among people and units from across Cornell University and beyond are likewise welcome and encouraged. Potential applicants are encouraged to contact the most relevant faculty and staff at the Lab to brainstorm about areas of mutual interest and synergistic projects.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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7. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Cornell University Action Research Collaborative (ARC) is seeking to hire a full-time research associate to work and manage on several projects across New York State. The mission of ARC is to develop and support equitable and sustainable research-practice-policy partnerships that can generate solutions to improve the lives of communities that are too often neglected. ARC approaches partnerships using multiple disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. Also, it is imperative that community partners are involved in all phases of projects (i.e., from study design to dissemination of findings). The overarching goal is for these projects to inform interventions and public policies that support the well-being of marginalized populations. The research associate will conduct and manage social scientific research projects on how structural, cultural, and political processes affect people’s experiences, as well as downstream outcomes in public policy and broader society. Applicants should have experience conducting quantitative or mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) social scientific research with multidisciplinary teams.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Associate to join our interdisciplinary, NSF-funded project on deterring objectionable speech online. The project is a joint collaboration between the Department of Communication, the Department of Information Science, and the Cornell Social Media Lab and is funded by the National Science Foundation. The full-time Postdoctoral Associate will participate in research on the effectiveness of real-world interventions to deter objectionable speech. Additionally, the Postdoctoral Associate will design field experiments that encourage users to take effective and pro-social action when they see speech, such as harassment, hate speech, or misinformation, that they find inappropriate or objectionable.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The applicant will have the opportunity to pursue research projects in support of a range of cm- to mm-wave surveys at the forefront of line-intensity mapping, through the COMAP, TIME, and CCAT collaborations. The applicant will have some latitude for self-directed work, while spending a significant fraction of their time working on testing and validating analysis strategies for new data from the cutting-edge instruments operated by these collaborations. Applicants with prior experience with wide-field cm- to mm-wave surveys (line-intensity mapping or otherwise)—including in data analysis, simulations, and/or forecasting—are especially encouraged to apply.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
10. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Lammerding laboratory to investigate how mechanical stimuli and deformation of the cell nucleus modulate the expression of mechanoresponsive genes and chromatin organization through an NIH funded project. The research builds on previous discoveries in the Lammerding lab that found that nuclear envelope proteins play crucial roles in the ability of cells to respond to mechanical stimuli (Lammerding et al. J Clin Invest 2004; Ho et al. Nature 2013; Kalukula et al. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2022) and that cell migration through confined spaces results in nuclear envelope rupture, DNA damage, and chromatin modification (Denais et al. Science 2016; Shah et al. Current Biol 2021; Hsia et al. iScience 2022). Additional research opportunities are available to investigate the biophysical mechanism by which cells move their large nucleus through tight spaces (see for example, Keys et al. J Cell Science 2024).
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
11. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Johnson Lab is seeking to welcome a postdoctoral research associate to the group who specializes in metabolomics with experience in novel metabolite discovery and comparative metabolomics. This researcher would work across multiple projects that aim to understand the precise mechanisms that define how infant diets contribute to gut microbial metabolism. Main responsibilities would include acquiring, analyzing, and interpreting metabolomics data from microbiome samples, methods development, working with graduate students, manuscript preparation and the potential to follow up on observations in research models depending on the interest of the individual.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
12. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking highly motivated scientists to join the Diel Lab in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, as Post-doctoral Associate, working on projects focusing on characterizing viral immune responses, identifying, and characterizing protective viral antigens for subunit vaccine development. The Diel Lab has a diverse research portfolio with projects currently funded by USDA, APHIS, NPB and NIH (https://diellab.net/). The lab studies mechanisms underlying virus-host interactions, pathogenesis, immunity, and works on diagnostic assay development for emerging viral diseases at the human/animal interface.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
13. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Buckler Lab within the Institute for Genomic Diversity uses functional genomic approaches to dissect complex traits in grasses, cassava, and a wide range of other crops. We use the natural diversity of plant genomes to identify the individual DNA changes responsible for complex trait (quantitative) variation. While we start with natural variation and learn from evolution, we leverage every high-tech, cutting-edge approach available to measure and understand diversity. We are conducting research on comparative genomics, chromatin structure, gene expression, protein levels, metabolites, and robotically collected field-based phenotypes. Our group integrates these data with a combination of computational biology, machine learning, and statistical approaches.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
14. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Research Associate sought for this position is a PhD-level scientist who will contribute to research in the Grodsky Lab, under the supervision of the Department Chair, Richard Stedman, focused on renewable energy ecology. The primary functions of the position are to conduct research in coordination with the PI on interaction among energy development, ecosystems, and people. The Research Associate will supervise and implement a long-term research project on the ecology of solar energy development on abandoned agricultural lands in California and broadly assist in the research enterprise of the Grodsky Lab. Occasional travel to California to meet with collaborators and the research field will be necessary. This is a full-time, in-person position (40 hours/week). This is a three-year appointment, which is renewable upon satisfactory performance, work, and funding.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
15. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate position. We seek an independent and highly motivated researcher with strong skills in quantitative social science research methods and knowledge of US health policy. The Associate will work closely with a team led by Dr. Sharon Tennyson at Cornell and Dr. Wendy Brunner at Bassett Research Institute on an NIMHD grant entitled “School Based Health Centers – An approach to address health disparities among rural youth”. This project will assess the impact of School Based Health Centers on healthcare utilization and outcomes and will examine how SBHCs may enhance rural community health by building individual, institutional, community and policy partnerships.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
