Postdoctoral Fellow in Freshwater Science

The GRIL node at McGill University comprises seven aquatic scientists (see below) that span a broad range of expertise; we are advancing knowledge regarding landscape-scale processes, long-term changes in aquatic structure and function, impacts of aquatic invasive species and climate change, ecotoxicology, as well as ecosystem-scale trophic interactions and evolutionary dynamics. We are also connected to a larger interuniversity group (GRIL), that has a long-standing history of research excellence.

To advance bold new ideas in freshwater science and to facilitate new collaborations among this group as well as other McGill students & faculty, we are looking to recruit a postdoctoral fellow. Broadly, we will select a candidate to develop projects that bring our research groups together, rather than working exclusively with only one or two faculty members. In addition to conducting their own original research, the successful candidate will also collaborate with the interuniversity GRIL group to develop a synthetic project, typically done by organizing a workshop. The candidate should be prepared to start at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in spring 2027.

Assuming satisfactory performance, the selected postdoctoral fellow will be provided funding for two years. The candidate would receive a salary of $55,000/yr. + McGill University benefits.

Application requirements: Candidates will be required to submit their CV, a research proposal in freshwater science (approximately 2 pages in length), three representative publications and the names and contact information for three references. More information about GRIL-McGill members can be found on each of the respective PIs websites. Applicants should hold a PhD degree by the time the position starts in a field relevant to the call and should be no more than 3 years post-PhD (leaves not included). We will start reviewing applications on Oct 26, 2026; applications will be accepted until a suited candidate has been found.

Please send your applications as a single PDF file (file name as GRIL_lastname.firstname.pdf) to [email protected]

GRIL-McGill members & their areas of expertise:

Melania Cristescu: Population genetics, Invasive species, Environmental DNA

Lars Iversen: Macroecology, Functional Traits, Global Change

Gregor Fussmann: Experimental ecology, Biodiversity, Community dynamics

Anthony Ricciardi: Invasion ecology of fish and aquatic invertebrates

Irene Gregory-Eaves: Global Change, Anthropocene, Paleoecology

Nathalie Tufenkji: Emerging contaminants, including microplastics

Andrew Hendry: Eco-evolutionary dynamics, Contemporary evolution