Postdoctoral Fellowships

AARMS postdoctoral fellowships attract talented young mathematical scientists from around the world to pursue advanced research.   The annual competition for fellowships opens in October each year.  We highly recommend that you read the RULES at the bottom of this page before applying.

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

Seth K. Asante

Seth K. Asante completed his Ph.D. in 2021 at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr. Bianca Dittrich. His primary research focused on mathematical foundations of non-perturbative approaches to quantum gravity, particularly in spin foam models, and loop quantum gravity.  In December 2025, Seth joined the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton as an AARMS Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Professors Edward Wilson-Ewing, Viqar Husain and Sanjeev Seahra. Seth’s current research interest centres on developing computational tools and packages for quantum gravity by importing techniques from pure and applied mathematics. He aims to make quantum gravity more computationally accessible to enable concrete test of their mathematical consistency and physical relevance. 

Sebastiano Argenti

Sebastiano Argenti completed his Ph.D. in 2025 under the supervision of Onofrio Mario Di Vincenzo at University of Basilicata, Italy. His primary research interest is about polynomial identities of associative algebras with additional structure, where he worked on several classification results of extremal varieties. He also worked on some applications of algebraic methods to graph theory, in particular regarding the classification of distance-biregular graphs.

In September 2025, Sebastiano Argenti joined Memorial University of Newfoundland as an AARMS Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Mikhail Kotchetov and Yuri Bahturin. His current research is focused on the classification of gradings on non-associative algebras and on the investigation of polynomial identities.

Denys Bulavka

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Shanwei Ding

Shanwei Ding completed his Ph.D. in 2024 under the supervision of Professor Guanghan Li at Wuhan University. His primary research focused on using curvature flows to prove geometric inequalities in the space form and to establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions to prescribed curvature measure or area measure problems. In September 2024, Shanwei Ding joined Memorial University of Newfoundland as an AARMS Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Professors Deping Ye and Professor Nguyen Hoang Lam. His current research interests include curvature flows and their applications, convex geometry, and optimal transport. He aim to explore the connections between PDE and these problems, and to attack these problems. 

Serhii Koval

Serhii Koval is an AARMS Postdoctoral Fellow working jointly at Saint Mary’s University and Memorial University of Newfoundland under the supervision of Professors Mitja Mastnak and Mikhail Kochetov. His work is focused on deformations of Nichols algebras, theory of Hopf algebras, gradings on Lie algebras, and their applications to mathematical physics. Serhii holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he was supervised by Professors Alex Bihlo and Roman Popovych. His doctoral work was devoted to the development and application of algebraic methods based on Lie theory and representation theory to studying differential equations and integrable systems.

Rules and procedures

Please read these rules carefully. Every year a large quantity of applicants are rejected for not having read the rules.

Eligibility and place of tenure

AARMS postdoctoral fellowships are awarded, on the recommendation of its Scientific Review Panel (SRP), to beginning researchers who received their PhD no more than four years before the Stage 1 deadline given below. Applications will be considered from those who anticipate receiving their PhD before the proposed start time of the fellowship, however the PhD must be in hand before actually beginning the fellowship. AARMS will provide $32,500 per year for the fellowship and the supervisor is responsible for organising matching funds of at least $20,000.  In addition, AARMS will provide travel funding of up to $1500 per year for all AARMS funded postdocs.

It is typically expected that the proposed supervisor will not be the same person as the applicant’s PhD supervisor, and that the proposed Postdoctoral Fellowship will be at a different university than the one at which the PhD was awarded. The proposed supervisor(s) must be a full-time tenure track or tenured faculty member at an AARMS member university, and the proposed research must be in the Mathematical Sciences or a closely related field.  A co-supervisor who is outside of Atlantic Canada may be proposed but the postdoc may not spend more than one semester per year outside Atlantic Canada.

AARMS Postdoctoral Fellows will be employees of the university where their supervisor is located.  Each university in Atlantic Canada applies their own HR policies.  The funding provided by AARMS is a contribution to the postdoctoral fellowship position, but any person considering taking up a position as an AARMS Postdoctoral Fellow should confirm with the host university how those funds will be used to provide salary and benefits before committing to the position.

Duration

Normally two years. Funding for the second year is dependent upon satisfactory performance demonstrated in the detailed progress report submitted by the supervisor(s).

Application

Applicants must first choose one or more faculty members from AARMS member universities who they wish to nominate as potential supervisors.  Applicants may also nominate a team of Atlantic researchers as co-supervisors, possibly at different Atlantic Canadian Universities.  Candidates are strongly encouraged to contact prospective supervisor(s) in advance to gauge their interest/ability to support the applicant as a postdoctoral fellow.

Once the potential supervisor(s) have been selected, the applicant should create an application in response to the “AARMS Postdoctoral Fellowship” advertisement on MathJobs.org.  The application should include:

  • A cover letter stating the proposed supervisor(s).

  • An up-to-date CV including publication list.

  • A detailed description of the research area and the research to be carried out during the tenure of the fellowship as well as a description of how the candidate would interact with the supervisor(s).

  • Letters of reference from at least two referees.  Referees should be persons who are familiar with the candidate’s work and can comment on their suitability for an AARMS postdoctoral fellowship.

  • Completion of our EDI Self-Identification Questionnaire.

We highly recommend that you complete this stage of the application well before the deadline.  People you ask to provide letters of reference are usually very busy and may not be able to respond in time if you give them short notice.  Without the required letters of reference your application will not be successful.

It is permitted for a supervisor to support more than one applicant, subject to the following restrictions:

  • The supervisor is only permitted to support as many applicants as the supervisor has financial resources to fund, considering that all such applicants might be successful.  The supervisor must demonstrate this financial capacity to support all applicants in the letter of support.

  • The supervisor is encouraged to provide, in the letter of support, a ranking of the multiple applicants for whom they are named as the sole supervisor.AARMS aims to increase the participation of under-represented groups in the mathematical sciences. We welcome postdoctoral applications from Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.

Assessment

Applications will be reviewed by the Scientific Review Panel, who will make a recommendation to the Director.

Timetable

Dates which fall on a holiday or weekend will shift to the next business day.

October 9 – MathJobs.org will begin accepting Stage 1 applications

November 15 – Stage 1 application deadline.  All material from applicants, including letters of reference, must be received by MathJobs.org by 11:59 pm, Atlantic time.

November 16 – 23 – AARMS contacts potential supervisors named in Stage 1 applications.

December 14 – Stage 2 application deadline.  Letters of support from potential supervisors must be received by 11:59 pm, Atlantic time.

February 1 – Deadline for the assessment phase. Initial offers on Postdoctoral fellowships are made within the next few weeks. The department/university offered an award is requested to provide to AARMS a signed “funding package”, showing the annual contributions by the supervisor(s), the department, and the university. Their amount has to be at least $20,000 and may require that the fellowship holder teach up to one class each term (including spring/summer sessions). If an offer is declined AARMS reserves the right to either offer or to refrain from offering a fellowship to the next candidate in the ranking. If a successful candidate has also been offered an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship it is permitted to accept the AARMS award as well. In this case AARMS will contribute $7,500 per year on top of the NSERC award. No matching fees will be required from the supervisor(s).

June 30 – Deadline for reports from supervisors of renewing PDFs. The supervisor must submit a detailed progress report, outlining the research work and listing publications, talks, etc.  The PDF is also expected to acknowledge the support of AARMS in their publications.

August 31 – Latest possible termination date for the second year of a PDF.

September 1 – Start time for the fellowship. AARMS will transfer $32,500 when the PDF starts their programme, and the same amount at the beginning of the second year. This is done upon receipt of a formal invoice from the hosting department/university. It is acceptable for the start of a fellowship to be delayed up until December 1, but funding will be reduced proportionate to the delay. This reduction will be reconciled in the second year of funding.Apply

Applications

All applications should be submitted through MathJobs.org. A link will be provided here when the site is open to receive applications.