Open Postdoctoral Positions

We are now accepting applications for Stanford PRISM, a postdoctoral recruitment program that connects advanced graduate students with potential postdoctoral mentors at Stanford. The deadline to apply is August 26, 2025 - APPLY NOW!


 

Department: Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Position with Brian Bateman

Start Date: Flexible Start Date
Posted on: June 19, 2025

Our research team is looking for a postdoctoral scholar interested in epidemiological research on the use of medications among pregnant and postpartum individuals. The position is NIH-funded and the scholar will work closely with Drs. Brian Bateman and Stephanie Leonard. Our projects employ...
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Department: Applied Physics

Position with Michel Digonnet

Start Date: Around end of summer 2025
Posted on: May 29, 2025

The research will consist in characterizing the noise, drift, and sensitivity to rotation of a three-axis resonant laser gyroscope. 


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Department: Biochemistry

Position with Haopeng Xiao

Start Date: As early as September 2025 but flexible
Posted on: August 30, 2025

Combining mass spectrometry-based proteomics and metabolomics, data science, and mechanistic biology to define the function and druggability of proteins.


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Department: Biology

Position with Ayelet Voskoboynik

Start Date: ASAP but flexible
Posted on: May 20, 2025


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Position with Vanessa Barone

Start Date: September-December 2025
Posted on: July 01, 2025

Evolution of asymmetric cell division in spiralian embryos


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Position with Li Wang

Start Date: Fall 2025 but flexible
Posted on: July 08, 2025


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Position with Gretchen Daily

Start Date: As soon as possible
Posted on: July 29, 2025

The Stanford Natural Capital Project seeks candidates to support a research program aimed at the implementation and scaling of natural capital approaches within country governments and International Financial Institutions (IFIs). Appointments will be made as Postdoctoral Scholars through the...
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Position with Lauren O'Connell

Start Date: as early as September 2025
Posted on: August 06, 2025


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Department: Biology, Hopkins Marine Station

Position with Vanessa Barone

Start Date: September-December 2025
Posted on: July 01, 2025

Evolution of asymmetric cell division in spiralian embryos


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Department: Biomedical Data Sciences

Position with Pascal Geldsetzer

Start Date: As soon as possible (but also interested in candidates who want to start later)
Posted on: June 05, 2025


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Position with Summer Han

Start Date: December 1, 2025 (Flexible)
Posted on: August 13, 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow in Large Language Models and Electronic Phenotyping in Cancer 


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Position with Sylvia Plevritis

Start Date: As soon as possible
Posted on: September 11, 2025


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Department: Biomedical Informatics

Position with Summer Han

Start Date: December 1, 2025 (Flexible)
Posted on: August 13, 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow in Large Language Models and Electronic Phenotyping in Cancer 


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Department: Cardiovascular Institute

Position with Han Zhu

Start Date: Jan 2026
Posted on: September 30, 2025


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Department: Chemical Engineering

Position with Brian Hie

Start Date: Early/mid 2026
Posted on: November 10, 2025

Postdoctoral researcher in synthetic genomics, synthetic biology, and generative biology


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Department: Chemistry

Position with Lynette Cegelski

Start Date: Sept-Oct 2025
Posted on: August 05, 2025


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Department: Electrical Engineering

Position with Michel Digonnet

Start Date: Around end of summer 2025
Posted on: May 29, 2025

The research will consist in characterizing the noise, drift, and sensitivity to rotation of a three-axis resonant laser gyroscope. 


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Department: Emergency Medicine

Position with Michelle Lin

Start Date: ASAP (rolling)
Posted on: October 08, 2025


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Department: Energy Science and Engineering

Position with Arun Majumdar

Start Date:
Posted on: November 11, 2025

Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Opening at the Majumdar Group at Stanford University


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Department: Epidemiology and Population Health

Position with Pascal Geldsetzer

Start Date: As soon as possible (but also interested in candidates who want to start later)
Posted on: June 05, 2025


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Position with Summer Han

Start Date: December 1, 2025 (Flexible)
Posted on: August 13, 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow in Large Language Models and Electronic Phenotyping in Cancer 


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Department: FSI Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD)

Position with Frank Wolak

Start Date: ASAP
Posted on: August 04, 2025


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Department: Genetics

Position with Matteo Molè

Start Date: Available immediately, depending on visa status and requirements.
Posted on: August 18, 2025

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Position with Jesse Engreitz

Start Date: Immediate
Posted on: September 04, 2025

The laboratories of Dr.


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Department: Graduate School of Education

Position with Jason Yeatman

Start Date: Open position
Posted on: June 10, 2025

Deep Phenotyping of Learning Differences


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Position with Susanna Loeb

Start Date: August 1, 2026, with some flexibility
Posted on: October 06, 2025

SCALE Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity with Professor Susanna Loeb
 


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Position with Jelena Obradovic

Start Date: Summer or Fall 2026
Posted on: October 09, 2025

The Equity in Early Education Postdoctoral (E3) Fellowship Program trains the next generation of scholars to conduct research toward equitable, impactful, and sustainable early childhood care and education systems.


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Position with Adriana Umaña-Taylor

Start Date: September 2026
Posted on: October 12, 2025


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Position with Katharine Sadowski

Start Date: July 1, 2026
Posted on: October 16, 2025


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Department: Gynecology and Obstetrics

Position with Matteo Molè

Start Date: Available immediately, depending on visa status and requirements.
Posted on: August 18, 2025

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Department: Health Policy

Position with Pascal Geldsetzer

Start Date: As soon as possible (but also interested in candidates who want to start later)
Posted on: June 05, 2025


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Position with Grant Miller

Start Date: September 1, 2025
Posted on: June 13, 2025

NOTE: This position has been filled. 

 

The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship position to join a project investigating trafficking risks in charcoal supply chains in Brazil. 


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Department: Humanities and Sciences

Position with Katherine Casey

Start Date: July-September 2026
Posted on: October 10, 2025

The Stanford King Center on Global Development’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program offers fellowships to outstanding new PhD recipients who have a demonstrated ability to generate high-quality, policy-relevant research on critical issues related to global development.


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Department: Jewish Studies

Position with Rowan Dorin

Start Date: September 1, 2026
Posted on: October 16, 2025

The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University invites qualified candidates to apply to the Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellowship.  The Reinhard Fellow will be appointed for one academic year, beginning in the Fall of 2026.


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Department: Linguistics

Position with Meg Cychosz

Start Date: Flexible; Spring or Summer 2026
Posted on: September 19, 2025

The Speech and Cognitive Development Lab (PI: Cychosz) in the Stanford University Department of Linguistics seeks a postdoctoral researcher to investigate fundamental questions about how children acquire language and develop communication skills. 


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Department: Mechanical Engineering

Position with Sindy Tang

Start Date: ASAP
Posted on: June 17, 2025

We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative postdoctoral researcher to lead the development of an automated platform for microscale tissue dissection, based on our recently published µDicer device (https://www.nature.com/articles/...
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Position with Arun Majumdar

Start Date:
Posted on: November 11, 2025

Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Opening at the Majumdar Group at Stanford University


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Department: Med: PCOR

Position with Pascal Geldsetzer

Start Date: As soon as possible (but also interested in candidates who want to start later)
Posted on: June 05, 2025


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Department: Medicine, Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR)

Position with Pascal Geldsetzer

Start Date: As soon as possible (but also interested in candidates who want to start later)
Posted on: June 05, 2025


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Department: Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

Position with Han Zhu

Start Date: Jan 2026
Posted on: September 30, 2025


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Department: Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Position with Eran Bendavid

Start Date: As soon as possible
Posted on: August 19, 2025


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Department: Medicine, Immunology and Rheumatology

Position with Titilola Falasinnu

Start Date: September 1, 2025
Posted on: July 07, 2025
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pain, Rheumatology, and Real-World Evidence

Institution: Stanford University


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Department: Medicine, Primary Care and Outcomes Research

Position with Pascal Geldsetzer

Start Date: As soon as possible (but also interested in candidates who want to start later)
Posted on: June 05, 2025


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Department: Microbiology and Immunology

Position with Priscilla Yang

Start Date: TBD
Posted on: August 21, 2025


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Department: Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Position with Ruth Huttenhain

Start Date: Start date is negotiable.
Posted on: October 01, 2025

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Department: Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Position with Lawrence Recht

Start Date: Flexible
Posted on: July 06, 2025


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Position with Juliet Knowles

Start Date: January 1, 2026
Posted on: August 04, 2025

High Throughput Drug Screening for Neurodegenerative Diseases Across the Lifespan


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Position with Michael Greicius

Start Date: January 2026
Posted on: October 10, 2025


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Department: Neuroscience Institute

Position with Pascal Geldsetzer

Start Date: As soon as possible (but also interested in candidates who want to start later)
Posted on: June 05, 2025


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Position with Neir Eshel

Start Date: As early as summer 2025
Posted on: June 17, 2025


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