Find your place at WashU!
Washington University in St. Louis invites you to join us as a postdoctoral researcher. Offering you great benefits and a rewarding training opportunity, we seek talented scholars committed to attaining academic and research excellence while promoting environments that are respectful, collegial, and supportive.
We welcome postdoctoral candidates from different backgrounds and different parts of the world. We strongly encourage postdoctoral candidates from underrepresented groups in scientific fields to find a postdoctoral position at WashU. This includes:
- Individuals from minoritized racial and ethnic groups such as Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders;
- Individuals with disabilities;
- Individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds;
- Women from the above identities and other historically resilient groups.
Open postdoctoral positions
Washington University Jobs
Visit the WashU jobs board and use the “Postdoc (Fixed Term)” filter to find postdoctoral openings.
You can also subscribe to The Postdoc Update, the newsletter for WashU postdocs, for recently released positions.
WashU Postdoctoral Fellowships
This is only a sample of the postdoctoral fellowship opportunities available at WashU in different disciplines:
W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biomedical Research
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Gerty and Carl Cori Fellows Program
Department of Genetics Postdoctoral Fellowships
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Living Earth Collaborative
Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences
John C. Danforth Center for Religion and Politics Fellowship
Department of Pathology & Immunology Postdoctoral Research
Department of Sociology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Movement Science
The McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
The McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Rita Levi-Montalcini Postdoctoral Fellowship in Regenerative Medicine
Postdoctoral Training Grants
This is only a sample of the postdoctoral training grants available at WashU (only for U.S. citizens and permanent residents):
Clinical Research Training Center NIH Training Grants
Translational Imaging in Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (TIRS) Program
Pediatric Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research Training Program
Women’s Health with a focus on Female Lower Urinary Tract Disorders (T32)
Siteman Cancer Center Postdoctoral Training Opportunities
Psychiatry Postdoctoral Research Opportunities
Cancer Prevention and Control, Division of Public Health Sciences of the Department of Surgery
Skeletal Disorders Training Program
Transdisciplinary Training in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
TL1 Translational Sciences Postdoctoral Program
Mentored Training Program in Clinical Investigation
LEADers to Accelerate Global Mental Health Disparities Research Program
Browse Washington University Schools
Visit the websites of the labs or research groups you are interested in and get in contact with the principal investigator (send a cover letter and your CV).
McKelvey School of Engineering