Open Postdoctoral Positions

Open Postdoctoral Positions are listed by Department.

Department: Epidemiology and Population Health

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 

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow with expertise in large language models (LLMs) and electronic phenotyping to join our dynamic team focused...

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Department: Neurosurgery

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 

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow with expertise in large language models (LLMs) and electronic phenotyping to join our dynamic team focused...

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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 

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow with expertise in large language models (LLMs) and electronic phenotyping to join our dynamic team focused...

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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: Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Position with Helen Bronte-Stewart

Start Date: Early 2026
Posted on: December 11, 2025

The Human Motor Control and Neuromodulation Lab under Dr. Bronte-Stewart, part of the Stanford Movement disorders Center within the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University’s...

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Position with Michael Greicius

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

The Greicius lab at Stanford University seeks a motivated postdoctoral fellow to join its multidisciplinary team studying the genomics of neurodegenerative diseases, with a special focus on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Current research focuses on using novel methods to detect genetic...

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Department: Chemical Engineering

Position with Brian Hie

Start Date: Early/mid 2026
Posted on: November 11, 2025

Postdoctoral researcher in protein biochemistry, protein evolution, and generative biology

Our lab’s mission is to ensure that the AI revolution in biology occurs in a way that benefits humanity. Our current focus is on advancing the state-of-the-art in generative modeling and...

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Position with Brian Hie

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

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

Our lab’s mission is to ensure that the AI revolution in biology occurs in a way that benefits humanity. Our current focus is on advancing the state-of-the-art in generative modeling and...

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Position with Meagan Mauter

Start Date: The position is available immediately and the start date can be negotiated based on the selected candidate's availability.
Posted on: December 01, 2025

The Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE) invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher...

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Department: Woods Institute

Position with Stephen Luby

Start Date: Fall 2025
Posted on: September 12, 2025

Postdoc Opportunity #2 with Project Unleaded: Survey/Data focus

Join the Stanford Center for Human and Planetary Health (HPH) and Project Unleaded for an...

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Position with Stephen Luby

Start Date: Fall 2025
Posted on: September 12, 2025

Postdoc Opportunity #1 with Project Unleaded : Laboratory/Measurement focus

Join the Stanford Center for Human and Planetary Health (HPH) and Project Unleaded...

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Position with Chris Field

Start Date: January 2026
Posted on: December 01, 2025

Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment and Sustainability Accelerator are launching a joint post-doctoral fellowship position to advance the use of biochar as a wildfire mitigation and carbon removal tool in California. The Post-doctoral Fellow will lead applied...

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Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Position with Jack Baker

Start Date: Fall 2026 (negotiable)
Posted on: December 16, 2025

The Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative (SURI) seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to join its community. SURI is working to tackle one of the major global challenges of this century: ensuring that our communities–increasingly urban, complex,...

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Position with Meagan Mauter

Start Date: The position is available immediately and the start date can be negotiated based on the selected candidate's availability.
Posted on: December 01, 2025

The Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE) invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher...

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Department: Urology

Position with Guolan Lu

Start Date: February 1st, 2026 (flexible)
Posted on: October 20, 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow in AI for Spatial Biology

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The Lu Lab at Stanford University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with deep expertise in advanced AI and generative...

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Department: Radiation Oncology

Position with Jason Sheltzer

Start Date: Flexible
Posted on: November 29, 2025

The Sheltzer Lab at Stanford University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a cutting-edge project applying CRISPR to dissect the consequences of copy-number alterations in iPS cells.  

This project focuses on 8p...

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Position with Anusha Kalbasi

Start Date: November 1, 2025
Posted on: October 09, 2025

Post-doctoral Scholar in Cancer Immunology — Stanford University

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...

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Department: Biology

Position with Luis Hernandez-Nunez

Start Date: Flexible (January-September 2026)
Posted on: November 27, 2025

Our lab investigates the functional principles, development, and computational properties of organism-wide circuits for brain-body interactions. We are an interdisciplinary team spanning engineering, neuroscience, developmental biology, genetics, applied math, and physics — united by...

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Position with Luis Hernandez-Nunez

Start Date: Flexible (January-September 2026)
Posted on: November 27, 2025

Our lab investigates the functional principles, development, and computational properties of organism-wide circuits for brain-body interactions. We are an interdisciplinary team spanning engineering, neuroscience, developmental biology, genetics, applied math, and physics — united by...

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Department: Medicine, Hematology

Position with Asiri Ediriwickrema

Start Date: Flexible Start Date
Posted on: December 04, 2025

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral scholar in hematology, stem cell biology, and cancer biology to work in the laboratory of Professor Asiri Ediriwickrema in the Division of Hematology at Stanford University. This research opportunity will be focused...

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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: Pediatrics, Cardiology

Position with Jesse Engreitz

Start Date: Immediate
Posted on: September 04, 2025

The laboratories of Dr. Marlene Rabinovitch, Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), and Jesse Engreitz, Assistant Professor of Genetics are seeking a highly motivated and accomplished postdoctoral scholar to join their team of investigators in conjunction with the Basic Science and...

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Department: Genetics

Position with Jesse Engreitz

Start Date: Immediate
Posted on: September 04, 2025

The laboratories of Dr. Marlene Rabinovitch, Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), and Jesse Engreitz, Assistant Professor of Genetics are seeking a highly motivated and accomplished postdoctoral scholar to join their team of investigators in conjunction with the Basic Science and...

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Department: Ophthalmology

Position with Wendy Liu

Start Date: Immediately available
Posted on: August 27, 2025

We have an opening for a full-time postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Wendy Liu, MD, PhD in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University to conduct collaborative projects in vision research.

 

Position Description: Our laboratory is interested in...

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Department: Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

Position with Han Zhu

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

The Han Zhu lab is dedicated to discovering the underpinnings of immune-related diseases in the heart. Cancer therapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors may cause toxicity in the heart, including severe myocarditis, making it difficult for patients...

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Department: Cardiovascular Institute

Position with Han Zhu

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

The Han Zhu lab is dedicated to discovering the underpinnings of immune-related diseases in the heart. Cancer therapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors may cause toxicity in the heart, including severe myocarditis, making it difficult for patients...

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Department: Surg: General Surgery

Position with Samuel So

Start Date: January 2026 with flexibility
Posted on: September 11, 2025

A postdoctoral position is available immediately in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University. As part of the Asian Liver Center, our lab uses multidisciplinary approaches to identify and develop more efficacious methods for the diagnosis and treatment of...

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Department: Graduate School of Education

Position with Katharine Sadowski

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

The Stanford Graduate School of Education invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Professor Katharine Sadowski on research examining how local, state, and federal policies shape the supply of early childcare. The project aims to produce new evidence on childcare supply...

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Position with Adriana Umaña-Taylor

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

The Adolescent Ethnic-Racial Identity Development (AERID) Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Adriana Umaña-Taylor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who will contribute to building a new initiative focused on Identity and Positive Youth...

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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.

Why the E3 fellowship program? 

To reduce racial and...

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Position with Jelena Obradovic

Start Date: Summer/ as soon as possible
Posted on: January 23, 2026

Dr. Jelena Obradović is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to join her research group in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. We encourage applications from individuals from a broad diversity of PhD-granting institutions, backgrounds, and life experiences who would...

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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.

We invite...

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Department: Rad: Radiation Therapy

Position with Anusha Kalbasi

Start Date: November 1, 2025
Posted on: October 09, 2025

Post-doctoral Scholar in Cancer Immunology — Stanford University

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...

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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: 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: Chemistry

Position with Lynette Cegelski

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

Research Group and Open Position: Our research group integrates the power of experimental chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology and chemical biology together in creative and unconventional ways to deliver new discoveries and insights addressing problems in biology and medicine. Our group...

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Department: East Asian Studies

Position with Xueguang Zhou

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

The Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University is pleased to offer one postdoctoral fellowship in Chinese Studies, open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences studying any historical period.

The fellowship provides a 12-month...

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Department: Health Policy

Position with Maria Polyakova

Start Date: September 1, 2026
Posted on: November 24, 2025

The Secure Health Data Integration and Research (SHINE) Lab is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship position to join NIH-funded projects in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau's Enhancing Health Data (EHealth) Program that develop new...

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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.

We welcome applications from scholars in...

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Department: Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Position with Ruth Huttenhain

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

Summary of the position:

The Huttenhain Lab in the Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford is looking for postdoctoral fellows to study mechanisms of intracellular signal integration through G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) using cutting edge mass...

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Department: Microbiology and Immunology

Position with Priscilla Yang

Start Date: TBD
Posted on: August 21, 2025

The Yang Group in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine is currently recruiting postdoctoral fellows to work with a team developing using the concept of induced proximity to develop small molecule antivirals. We are particularly interested...

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