Open Postdoctoral Positions

Open Postdoctoral Positions are listed by Department.

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: Environmental Social Sciences

Position with Nicole Ardoin

Start Date: October 1, 2026
Posted on: June 30, 2026

We seek a postdoctoral fellow with deep knowledge of the transformation science and sustainability transitions literatures to help advance the intellectual core of the Transformation Science Program.

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Department: Medicine, Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine

Position with John Openshaw

Start Date: October 1, 2026
Posted on: June 09, 2026

Heat Stress and Strategies for Adaptation in Coastal Informal Settlement Communities

Faculty in the Stanford School of Medicine are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a project characterizing heat stress in coastal informal settlement communities and develop,...

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Position with Marc Lipsitch

Start Date: October 1, 2026
Posted on: June 08, 2026

Opening for Postdoctoral Fellow in Infectious Disease Modeling and Causal Inference: Impact of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 outcomes                      

We are recruiting one or two postdoctoral scholars to work on a project at the intersection of causal...

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Department: FSI Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)

Position with Marc Lipsitch

Start Date: October 1, 2026
Posted on: June 08, 2026

Opening for Postdoctoral Fellow in Infectious Disease Modeling and Causal Inference: Impact of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 outcomes                      

We are recruiting one or two postdoctoral scholars to work on a project at the intersection of causal...

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Department: Biology

Position with Marc Lipsitch

Start Date: October 1, 2026
Posted on: June 08, 2026

Opening for Postdoctoral Fellow in Infectious Disease Modeling and Causal Inference: Impact of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 outcomes                      

We are recruiting one or two postdoctoral scholars to work on a project at the intersection of causal...

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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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Position with Anoop Rao

Start Date: September 2026
Posted on: July 23, 2026

The Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology and the Neonatal Engineering, Signals, and Technology (NEST) Lab are seeking a creative, motivated, and collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow to join our team and conduct research focused on physiologic waveform analysis, biomedical signal...

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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: Graduate School of Education

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: Surgery, Emergency Medicine

Position with Christopher Bennett

Start Date: Position available immediately. Start date is flexible; applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Posted on: June 03, 2026

The Bennett Lab in the Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join our research program. We are focused on generating data to inform how best emergency departments can most effectively contribute to ending multiple infectious disease...

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Position with Preeti Panda

Start Date: Position available immediately. Start date is flexible; applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Posted on: May 27, 2026

The Resilient Futures Research Lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with strong quantitative data analysis skills to join our interdisciplinary team of investigators. The fellowship goals include advancing our research program on youth violence and injury prevention, and to develop...

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Department: Earth System Science

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: 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, Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR)

Position with Mark Musen

Start Date: September 1, 2026 or ASAP
Posted on: July 16, 2026

Postdoc in the modeling of laboratory workflows to program self-driving laboratories

The Stanford University Division of Computational Medicine is developing advanced technology in cheminformatics with the long-term goal of radically enhancing the way in which all researchers...

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Department: Surgery, General Surgery

Position with Arden Morris

Start Date: September 15, 2026
Posted on: May 18, 2026

We seek a highly motivated computer scientist for a post-doctoral position in our multi-disciplinary health services research center within the Department of Surgery. The post-doc will have access to unique datasets, and can develop clinical partnerships across departments in Stanford's...

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Department: Health Policy

Position with Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert

Start Date: September 2026
Posted on: August 06, 2026

Full-time Postdoctoral Scholar Position Focused on Policies to Address Homelessness, Opioid Use Disorder, and Their Health Impacts

Prof. Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert in Stanford’s Department of Health Policy and Prof. Margaret Brandeau in Stanford’s...

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Department: Pediatrics, Neonatal and Developmental Medicine

Position with Anoop Rao

Start Date: September 2026
Posted on: July 23, 2026

The Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology and the Neonatal Engineering, Signals, and Technology (NEST) Lab are seeking a creative, motivated, and collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow to join our team and conduct research focused on physiologic waveform analysis, biomedical signal...

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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: Pathology

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: Psychiatry

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: Urology

Position with Guolan Lu

Start Date: The position is available immediately, and the start date is flexible
Posted on: May 22, 2026

The Lu Lab at Stanford University is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Scholar to help define a new frontier at the interface of spatial biology and therapeutics. The scholar will lead spatial-biology driven projects to identify novel spatial biomarkers,...

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