Listed here are 38 Research and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University, USA Click on each opportunity for details and to apply on the job website.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Machine Learning and Design of Biological Systems
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
A postdoctoral position is currently available in the laboratory of Dr. Mor Nitzan at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to study spatial and temporal aspects of interaction patterns in biological systems. We are looking for exceptional candidates with background in machine learning and/or computational biology. Research will focus on both top-down and bottom-up mapping of lo…View Details
The Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellowship in Conservation Biology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University invites applications or nominations for the Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellowship in Conservation Biology. The Hrdy Fellowship is open to researchers at any rank; we encourage applications from both established scientists as well as those who have recently received their Ph.D. The fellowship supports visits of eithe…View Details
William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowships
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Canada Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs invites applications for the William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowship. Two fellows will be appointed for the 2020–2021 academic year, with the possibility of extending the fellowship for one additional year—conditional on the approval of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, WCFIA associat…View Details
Independent Fellows in Quantitative Biology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
We are looking for independent postdoctoral fellows to work at the interface between the life and mathematical sciences as part of Harvard’s Initiative in Quantitative Biology and its NSF/Simons Center for the Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology. Funds from the Simons Foundation will support the fellow for three years. If their work is theoretical or computational, fellows can w…View Details
Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellowship
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Overview of Program The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University is pleased to announce its new Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program. This Fellowship program will allow exceptionally talented recent graduates to gain experience in the world of academic research while working on critical questions for the field of education around improving short and long-term outcome…View Details
Onnela Lab Postdoctoral Research Fellow Position Digital Phenotyping / Smartphone Data Research
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Onnela Lab in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking candidates with a Ph.D. in biostatistics, applied mathematics, computer science, or a related quantitative field for a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position. This position involves developing statistical methods, data analytic tools, and mathematical models for analyzing smartp…View Details
2020-21 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. Migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the humanities as it does in shaping the activist vision of humanitarianism and human rights. Too often, the humanities are…View Details
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Rowland Institute at Harvard is seeking applications for Rowland Fellowships that commence in the 2020 calendar year. We seek the best young experimentalists in all fields of science and engineering. The Rowland Fellowship provides an opportunity to establish an independent program in the rich intellectual environment at Harvard and surrounding area. Candidates will have newly awarded docto…
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship- Opportunity Insights
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
We are looking to hire several full-time pre-doctoral fellows for the academic year 2019-20 to work with our research group on the Opportunity Insights (previously the Equality of Opportunity Project). The mission of the project is to develop scalable policy solutions that will empower families throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes. We pursue this …View Details
Postdoctoral Fellow with John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellows Program
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Shamble Lab at Harvard University is currently accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellow position. The lab works on questions at the intersection of sensory neurophysiology, biomechanics, and animal behavior. Rooted in evolutionary and comparative biology, our work is highly interdisciplinary and candidates from across the sciences and engineering fields are encouraged to apply. Rese…View Details
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Center for Writing and Communicating Ideas of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) seeks to provide GSAS students with the means to enhance the clarity and depth of their written and oral communications. The Center offers individual consultations, peer review groups, dedicated writing space, workshops, and other programming to support registered GSAS students at all stage…View Details
Postdoctoral Fellow – LInc-The Learning Incubator
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks applicants for full-time Postdoctoral Fellows with the SEAS Learning Incubator. The mission of the SEAS Learning Incubator is innovation of educational pedagogy in engineering and/or science. The position requires a combined expertise in a specific scientific discipline with in-depth knowledge of teaching m…View Details
Postdoctoral Fellow in Vertebrate Skeletal Biology and Evolution
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Stephanie E. Pierce Laboratory based in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. The Fellow will help deign and execute research on tetrapod bone microstructural evolution. The research will specifically focus on comparing bone histology across a broad range of fossil tetrapod species to gain better insight into physiology, growth, …View Details
Postdoctoral Fellow in Vertebrate Evolution and Paleontology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
We seek a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Stephanie E. Pierce Laboratory based in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. The Fellow will contribute to an NSF funded research project on the evolution of the mammalian forelimb. The primary aim of the research is to understand how shifts in forelimb morphology and posture during synapsid evolution contributed to the ecomorphologica…View Details
Research Associate/Research Scientist (ACTG)
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has an immediate opening in CBAR for a Ph.D.-level Research Associate or Research Scientist statistician to work in the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) and other infectious diseases projects. The ACTG is a very large NIH-funded collaborative clinical trials network with an international research agenda focuse…View Details
Research Associate: Biomedical Sciences Lab and Research Manager
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with significant experience in molecular and cellular biology and/or mouse genetics to join our dynamic research team. The successful candidate will play an integral role in ongoing studies exploring how the PI3K-mTOR signaling network is altered in cancer, diabetes, and aging, and how targeting components of the signaling network might lead to n…View Details
Postdoctoral Research Position in Quantitative Sciences for Cancer Research
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a Postdoctoral fellow position funded in large part by an NIH training grant on Quantitative Sciences for Cancer Research. Candidates have latitude to choose among several mentors across various institutes at Harvard; research can range from the most applied to the most theoretical as long …View Details
Molecular & Integrative Physiological Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Postdoctoral positions, including a named fellowship, are available at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our faculty includes Drs. Joseph D. Brain (toxicology, fate and biologic effects of nanoparticles and metals, ARDS), James P. Butler (physics, applied mathematics, sleep, respiratory mechanics), Philip Demokritou (effects of nanoparticles on biological systems, nanoscience, aer…View Details
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Laboratory of Drs. Robert V. Farese, Jr., and Tobias Walther, and the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA Work as a member of the research analytical platform at Harvard Chan to provide mass-spectrometry analyses for projects investigating the cell biology of lipid metabolism. Specifically, under the general supervision of…View Details
Research Associate – Bioinformatics Trainer and Analyst
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
We are looking for a bioinformatician or computational biologist interested in working with our bioinformatics training team to provide education and training to the Harvard community. The ideal candidate will be interested in training biologists to analyze data, and in working with data from a wide variety of experimental platforms, particularly next-gen sequencing technologies. This role prov…View Details
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Huttenhower lab in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (http://huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. This grant-funded position will provide the opportunity to carry out microbiome research in either or both of two collaborative networks: analyses of type 1 diabetes with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), a…View Details
Postdoctoral research fellowship position in Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking candidates with a PhD in Statistics/Biostatistics for a postdoctoral position. The position involves the development and implementation of methodology for the design and analysis of longitudinal and/or cluster-correlated continuous, categorical or survival outcomes. Specific methodologic challenges that …View Details
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics is recruiting a Cambridge-based Research Fellow with top-notch research skills to evaluate research project proposals and support a portfolio of development economics projects. The Research Fellow will report to the Weiss Fund faculty director and the program director and contribute to data analysis, development economics research, and progra…View Details
Postdoctoral Research Position in Statistical Genetics and Genomics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in statistical genetics and genomics is available at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. This position involves developing and applying statistical and computational methods for analysis of high-throughput genetic and genomic data, including Whole Genome Sequencing association studies, integrative analysis of genetic and genomic data high-dimensiona…View Details
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nutrition Agriculture and Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Nutrition and Global Health Program in the Department of Global Health and Population, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher with an interest in global nutrition to join its research team. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will focus on assessing nutrition outcomes using data from Nutrition Innovation Lab (NIL), a project under…View Details
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department while also strengthening connections across the University’s acade…View Details
2019-20 College Fellows (in multiple areas)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Please visit https://facultyresources.fas.harvard.edu/how-apply for a list of open College Fellow positions. The College Fellows Program (https://facultyresources.fas.harvard.edu/college-fellows-program) at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences identifies exceptional scholars who have recently completed their doctoral work and have demonstrated excellence in teaching. College Fellows teach within…View Details
Postdoctoral Fellow – Global Maternal and Child Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The HaSET (“happiness” in Amharic”) Global Maternal and Child Health Research Program at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position. Our program works closely with partners in Ethiopia and Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health to generate evidence to improve maternal and child health programs and policies. In addition, we provide technic…View Details
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
We are seeking a candidate with expertise in computational and systems biology to work as part of a multidisciplinary team developing methods relevant to the study of genetics, gene regulatory networks, and the use of quantitative imaging data as biomarkers. Our goal is to use these methods to better understand the development, progression, and response to therapy. The successful applicant will…View Details
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor Marcia Castro is seeking a highly-motivated and capable postdoctoral researcher with an interest in inter-disciplinary research, predominantly quantitative. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Castro on several projects related to infectious diseases and other health outcomes in Brazil. The work involves the analysis of large datasets assembled from varied data sources, with t…View Details
Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Associate Position in Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
A Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Associate position in biostatistics and biomedical informatics is available at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The positions involve developing and applying statistical and computational methods for analysis of electronic health records (EHR) data including narrative data extracted via natural language processing, codified phenotype data as …View Details
John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University seeks applicants in the life sciences for appointment as a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow. The Fellow will be housed in the Northwest Science Building and affiliated with one of the Life Science departments in FAS. The environment is an intensively collaborative, interdisciplinary center, where scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds study cellular pathway…View Details
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Onnela Lab in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking candidates with a Ph.D. in biostatistics, applied mathematics, statistical physics, computer science, or a related quantitative field for two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions. These positions involve developing statistical methods, data analytic tools, and mathematical models…View Details
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Huttenhower group in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (http://huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to lead molecular and microbiology research in the group’s laboratory. The successful candidate will be primarily based in the group’s wet lab, comprising facilities for microbia…View Details
Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) at Harvard University welcomes applications for a postdoctoral fellow to work in the field of infectious disease modeling with Dr. Alison Hill and Professor Martin Nowak. We are seeking a motivated and creative PhD-level scientist with experience applying mathematics to biological systems. In particular, we are seeking a postdoc to contribute to …View Details
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The malaria genomics group within the Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program at the Broad Institute develops and applies genomics approaches to address key questions in malaria biology and to support global malaria elimination efforts. A major focus of our group is to understand the evolution and transmission of malaria parasites in natural settings, including the development and spread of a…View Details
William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowships
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Canada Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs invites applications for the William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowship. Two fellows will be appointed for the 2018–2019 academic year, with the possibility of extending the fellowship for one additional year—conditional on the approval of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, WCFIA associat…View Details Bookmark
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Department if Genetics and Complex Disease(GCD) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) seeks candidate for the position of Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Farese and Walther Laboratory studies the biochemistry of cellular lipid metabolism and homeostasis. We are particularly interested in neutral lipid synthesis and Lipid Droplet biogenesis.View Details
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