Open Postdoctoral Positions

Open Postdoctoral Positions are listed by Department.

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Position with Amin Saberi

Start Date: September 1, 2026
Posted on: December 30, 2025

The Stanford Center on Computational Market Design invites applications from candidates conducting research in Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics and related fields. Fellows will work with faculty affiliated with the Stanford Center on...

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Department: Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Position with Miles Berger

Start Date: July 17, 2026
Posted on: May 18, 2026

The bergerlab.stanford.edu is appointing! We're looking for a postdoc with a neuroscience/EEG analysis/...

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Department: Bioengineering

Position with Sindy Tang

Start Date:
Posted on: March 07, 2026

The Tang Lab at Stanford University is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to lead the development of a new experimental platform for spatial multi-omic analysis of biological tissues. Our lab builds biological measurement infrastructure—engineering systems that...

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Department: Center for Biomedical Ethics

Position with Mildred Cho

Start Date: July 1, 2026 or late as Fall 2026
Posted on: May 26, 2026

Job description: 
The postdoctoral fellow will conduct independent research on ethical, legal and social considerations arising from genetics and genomics, with mentorship from program faculty.  The fellow will be part of an interdisciplinary community including faculty and...

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Department: Chemical and Systems Biology

Position with Kacper Rogala

Start Date: ASAP
Posted on: February 25, 2026

Cryo‑EM and Protein Biochemistry (Rogala Lab, Stanford) — https://rogala.stanford.edu.

The Rogala Lab is seeking ambitious, thoughtful postdoctoral scholars who...

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Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Position with Barbara Simpson

Start Date: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis with start dates as early as 1/1/2026 and as late as 3/1/2026.
Posted on: December 16, 2025

A postdoctoral scholar is sought for a position in SEA-Scan: Structural and Environmental Algorithms for Sensing of Offshore Systems  working with Dr. Barbara Simpson in the School of Engineering and School of Sustainability, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford...

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Department: Earth System Science

Position with Rob Jackson

Start Date: Preferably by July 2026
Posted on: February 05, 2026

The epidemiology of ultrafine particles emitted from gas appliances

The Stanford Electrification for Health program, based at the Stanford Center for Human and Planetary Health (HPH), is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a...

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Position with Alison Hoyt

Start Date: Flexible, though preferably by September 2026.
Posted on: June 04, 2026

The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Group (the Hoyt lab; https://carboncycle.stanford.edu) in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is hiring a full-time postdoctoral scientist to join our research team to build and deploy low-cost greenhouse...

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Position with Adam Pellegrini

Start Date: Preferably by September 2026
Posted on: June 05, 2026

Natural climate solutions in an evolving world

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher interested in the potential for nature-based climate solutions to achieve net-emissions reductions in an evolving world. As climate change and population...

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Department: Environmental Social Sciences

Position with Xavier Basurto

Start Date: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. The position is available to begin immediately, with a preferred start date before April 1, 2026.
Posted on: December 15, 2025

Community-led Conservation and Governance 

Stanford University invites applications for an outstanding Postdoctoral Research Fellow with deep expertise in conservation governance, community-led conservation, and participatory and qualitative research methods. Disciplinary...

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Department: Genetics

Position with Matteo Molè

Start Date: Available immediately, depending on visa status and requirements.
Posted on: April 16, 2026

Project Description

Join a pioneering project at Stanford University to create “A Spatial Transcriptomic Atlas of Embryo-Endometrial Crosstalk During Implantation and Human Embryo Development”. This position is funded by a...

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Department: Graduate School of Education

Position with Beth Schueler

Start Date: August 1, 2026 (flexible)
Posted on: December 16, 2025

The Politics of Education Lab (PEdL) based at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on research examining education policy, the politics of education, and educational governance. PEdL is dedicated to understanding the political...

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Position with Jason Yeatman

Start Date: Open position
Posted on: April 03, 2026

Rapid Online Assessment of Reading

Postdoc in Operational Psychometrics and Educational Data Science

Advisors: Jason D. Yeatman, Ph.D. and Carrie Townley-...

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Position with Monica Ellwood-Lowe

Start Date: Flexible, with preference for Summer or Fall 2026
Posted on: May 12, 2026

Postdoc in Children's Language and Learning in Everyday Environments

Advisors: Monica Ellwood Lowe, Ph.D., Meg Cychosz, Ph.D., Dan Jurafsky, Ph.D.

We are recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join a collaborative, interdisciplinary team...

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Department: Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Position with Shriti Raj

Start Date: June 2026
Posted on: April 24, 2026

Position Overview

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction to join Dr. Shriti Raj’s lab. The successful candidate will contribute to research on the design,...

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Department: Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Position with Erik Brynjolfsson

Start Date: Sept 1, 2026
Posted on: December 17, 2025

The Stanford Digital Economy Lab seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow:
The position will have a priority project led by Professor Erik Brynjolfsson and the opportunity to work with other faculty and PIs at Stanford. This position's priority project will drive cutting-edge...

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Department: Law

Position with Colleen Honigsberg

Start Date: July-September 2026
Posted on: March 18, 2026

The Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance seeks an outstanding recent PhD graduate with a demonstrated record of producing high-quality, policy-relevant research on critical issues in corporate law and governance.

We invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship...

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Department: Linguistics

Position with Monica Ellwood-Lowe

Start Date: Flexible, with preference for Summer or Fall 2026
Posted on: May 12, 2026

Postdoc in Children's Language and Learning in Everyday Environments

Advisors: Monica Ellwood Lowe, Ph.D., Meg Cychosz, Ph.D., Dan Jurafsky, Ph.D.

We are recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join a collaborative, interdisciplinary team...

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Department: Mechanical Engineering

Position with Rob Jackson

Start Date: Preferably by July 2026
Posted on: February 05, 2026

The epidemiology of ultrafine particles emitted from gas appliances

The Stanford Electrification for Health program, based at the Stanford Center for Human and Planetary Health (HPH), is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a...

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Position with Sindy Tang

Start Date:
Posted on: March 07, 2026

The Tang Lab at Stanford University is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to lead the development of a new experimental platform for spatial multi-omic analysis of biological tissues. Our lab builds biological measurement infrastructure—engineering systems that...

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Department: Medicine, Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR)

Position with Shriti Raj

Start Date: June 2026
Posted on: April 24, 2026

Position Overview

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction to join Dr. Shriti Raj’s lab. The successful candidate will contribute to research on the design,...

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Department: Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

Position with Euan Ashley

Start Date: As soon as possible
Posted on: June 02, 2026

Postdoctoral Fellow in AI, Multi-Omics, and Heart Failure Discovery

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to work at the intersection of cardiovascular medicine, biomedical data science, artificial intelligence, genetics, imaging, and multi-omics discovery.

The...

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Department: Medicine, Endocrinology, Gerontology, and Metabolism

Position with Jennifer Lee

Start Date: Rolling admission, applicants can apply as soon as possible.
Posted on: February 17, 2026

Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP) at VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Competitively selected Stanford postdoctoral fellows work with VA Medical Center clinicians and interdisciplinary researchers to address important questions in cancer research and care...

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Department: Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Position with Sidhartha Sinha

Start Date: Some flexibility, but likely July 1 2026
Posted on: May 27, 2026

The Sinha Lab at Stanford University invites applications for a sponsored postdoctoral position. We seek highly creative and motivated scientists with a background in immunology, bioinformatics, and/or expertise in microbiome/metabolome studies.  The breath of the lab’s interests are wide....

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Department: Medicine, Immunology and Rheumatology

Position with Alisa Mueller

Start Date: Negotiable
Posted on: March 02, 2026

The Mueller Laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to investigate mechanisms driving stromal pathology in rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune conditions. Our laboratory utilizes cutting-edge approaches in immunology, genomics...

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Department: Medicine, Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine

Position with Rob Jackson

Start Date: Preferably by July 2026
Posted on: February 05, 2026

The epidemiology of ultrafine particles emitted from gas appliances

The Stanford Electrification for Health program, based at the Stanford Center for Human and Planetary Health (HPH), is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a...

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Position with Joelle Rosser

Start Date: July 1, 2026
Posted on: May 21, 2026

Precision mapping of vector borne diseases using deep learning & high resolution remote sensing data

Faculty in Stanford Medicine are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a project developing and validating deep learning computer vision models to...

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Department: Microbiology and Immunology

Position with Sheri Krams

Start Date: asap
Posted on: March 03, 2026

The laboratory of Dr. Sheri Krams  is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for a dynamic immunology research program. The lab investigates fundamental mechanisms of immune recognition and regulation in clinically relevant contexts, with a particular focus on transplantation immunology and viral...

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Department: Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Position with Stephen Hinshaw

Start Date: ASAP
Posted on: April 07, 2026

The Hinshaw Lab at Stanford is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. We operate at the interface between structural and chemical biology. Our mission is to understand and reprogram protein assemblies that control chromosome segregation and behavior. Applicants with expertise in structural...

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Department: Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Position with Marion Buckwalter

Start Date: Ideally on or before July 1, 2026
Posted on: March 12, 2026

The Buckwalter lab has an opening for a postdoctoral fellow, PhD, MD, or MD/PhD. We study chronic outcomes after stroke using mouse models and human studies, with a particular focus on post-stroke cognitive decline. Basic/translational and clinical projects are available. Candidates should...

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Department: OB/GYN, Reproductive Stem Cell and Perinatal Biology

Position with Matteo Molè

Start Date: Available immediately, depending on visa status and requirements.
Posted on: April 16, 2026

Project Description

Join a pioneering project at Stanford University to create “A Spatial Transcriptomic Atlas of Embryo-Endometrial Crosstalk During Implantation and Human Embryo Development”. This position is funded by a...

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Department: Ophthalmology

Position with Andreas Tolias

Start Date: Immediately available
Posted on: March 24, 2026

The Andreas Tolias Lab at Stanford University is seeking an exceptional neuroscientist or cognitive scientist—at the postdoctoral level—to join the newly launched Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) ...

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Department: Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery

Position with Tulio Valdez

Start Date: ASAP
Posted on: April 06, 2026

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral scholar to join our translational imaging laboratory at Stanford University. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in engineering—biomedical, electrical, or mechanical—with expertise in optics, imaging systems, or device development...

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Department: Pathology

Position with Bingwei Lu

Start Date: Immediately
Posted on: February 26, 2026

We are seeking highly motivated and intellectually curious postdoctoral scholars with interest in diseases of the nervous system to join ongoing investigations into the pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic interventions for age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease...

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Position with Wei Gu

Start Date: start date flexible / rolling
Posted on: March 18, 2026

Our lab recently developed a new methylation profiling technology, FLEXseq (PMID: 42130071), that excels at broad profiling of the cfDNA methylome in plasma and other human body fluids such as cerebrospinal fluid. We seek to leverage...

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Position with Robert West

Start Date: The start date is flexible. We will review applications on a rolling basis.
Posted on: May 28, 2026

We are looking for a motivated postdoctoral researcher to work on breast cancer progression in the West lab in the Department of Pathology at Stanford. Successful candidates will use a combination of spatial transcriptomics and highly multiplexed imaging to understand how precursors of...

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Department: Pediatrics

Position with Jason Yeatman

Start Date: Open position
Posted on: April 03, 2026

Rapid Online Assessment of Reading

Postdoc in Operational Psychometrics and Educational Data Science

Advisors: Jason D. Yeatman, Ph.D. and Carrie Townley-...

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Department: Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine

Position with Daniel Tawfik

Start Date: As soon as possible
Posted on: March 17, 2026

An opportunity for a postdoctoral fellow is available in the lab of Dr. Daniel Tawfik in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. The Tawfik lab studies the use of electronic health record metadata in identifying structures and...

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Department: Pediatrics, Endocrinology and Diabetes

Position with Anna Gloyn

Start Date: 05/01/2026
Posted on: January 21, 2026

POSITION 1 

We seek highly motivated individuals with a strong foundation in molecular genetics and biochemistry to work on projects related to precision diagnostics for diabetes. Research will be focused on generating large maps of variant effects using disease relevant assays...

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Position with Anna Gloyn

Start Date: 05/01/2026
Posted on: January 21, 2026

POSITION 2

We seek a highly motivated individual with a strong foundation in cellular biology, and metabolism. Expertise in mitochondrial biology is particularly welcome. Individuals who are looking to combine genetics of complex disease with cellular phenotyping at scale are...

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Department: Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition

Position with Sohail Husain

Start Date: 8/1/2026
Posted on: January 16, 2026

Position Overview and Scientific Vision
The laboratory of Dr. Sohail Husain in the Stanford Pediatric Exocrine Pancreas Program seeks an exceptional Postdoctoral Scholar to lead hypothesis driven mechanistic research focused on how vitamin A signaling and transport regulate...

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Position with Michael Schumacher, PhD

Start Date: ASAP
Posted on: May 26, 2026

The Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, and the Schumacher Gut Science Lab are seeking a creative, motivated, and collaborative Post-Doctoral Fellow to join our team and conduct fundamental research studies aimed at better understanding tissue...

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Department: Psychiatry

Position with Leanne Williams

Start Date: Earliest available start date
Posted on: March 24, 2026

We are seeking a well-trained postdoctoral scientist who is motivated to develop and apply expertise in neuroimaging-informed biotype trials for precision medicine in depression. Especially sought are candidates with expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), with a...

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Position with Antonio Hardan

Start Date: Start date will be mutually agreed upon between program leaders and the applicant.
Posted on: April 07, 2026

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Psychometrics in Autism 

The Stanford Autism Center is pleased to announce the availability of a mentored postdoctoral research fellowship in psychometrics and scale development. This position is being offered to well-qualified postdoctoral...

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Department: Psychology

Position with Jason Yeatman

Start Date: Open position
Posted on: April 03, 2026

Rapid Online Assessment of Reading

Postdoc in Operational Psychometrics and Educational Data Science

Advisors: Jason D. Yeatman, Ph.D. and Carrie Townley-...

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Department: Radiation Oncology

Position with Jason Ross

Start Date: As soon as possible (ASAP)
Posted on: February 10, 2026

The Ross laboratory at Stanford University is seeking a postdoc to extend recent findings on rejuvenating aged immune systems through stem cell modulation (Ross et al., Nature 2024).

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Position with Anusha Kalbasi

Start Date: August 1, 2026
Posted on: May 08, 2026

The Kalbasi Laboratory at Stanford University is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral scholar to join our interdisciplinary team at the intersection of cancer immunology, T cell immunotherapy, and cytokine biology.

This position offers the opportunity to pursue independent...

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Position with Quynh-Thu Le

Start Date: ASAP
Posted on: May 18, 2026

A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Quynh-Thu Le to develop inorganic nanomaterials for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics. Our research focuses on integrating nanotechnology, molecular imaging, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy to create translational platforms for...

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Department: Radiation Oncology, Radiation Therapy

Position with Jason Ross

Start Date: As soon as possible (ASAP)
Posted on: February 10, 2026

The Ross laboratory at Stanford University is seeking a postdoc to extend recent findings on rejuvenating aged immune systems through stem cell modulation (Ross et al., Nature 2024).

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Position with Anusha Kalbasi

Start Date: August 1, 2026
Posted on: May 08, 2026

The Kalbasi Laboratory at Stanford University is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral scholar to join our interdisciplinary team at the intersection of cancer immunology, T cell immunotherapy, and cytokine biology.

This position offers the opportunity to pursue independent...

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