Employment and Research Postings
For posting opportuinities in Entomology, please send details to the ESC Secretary, Sara Edwards, at ESCSecretary@esc-sec.ca.
Permanent Opportunities
Temporary/Contract Opportunities
Research Technician, R&D Contract – Biological Crop Protection (12 months)
Vineland Research & Innovation Centre
Work closely with applicable R&D staff; greenhouse and field managers; lab staff to carry out daily research tasks, review projects, experimental design and review results. Assist in coordinating and monitoring greenhouse and field experiments, including sampling plants, soils and substrates in the field and greenhouse. Conduct data collection and maintain detailed records of activities. Keep up to date on methods for plant health assessments and phenotyping of plant material; conduct plant assessments with photographs and physical measurements, where applicable.
Deadline: Sept 12, 2025
Details and application: here
Graduate Research Opportunities
PhD and MSc Opportunities in Global Change Ecology – University of Guelph
The Grainger Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting one PhD student and one MSc student (both fully-funded) to start in September 2026. The Grainger Lab investigates the effects of temperature, habitat fragmentation and invasive species on competition, eco-evolutionary dynamics, population dynamics, dispersal, and range expansions. To do this, we conduct lab and field experiments with insects (Tribolium flour beetles and milkweed aphids) that test fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology.
To learn more about our research and how to apply, please visit www.tessgrainger.ca.
Deadline: October 15th 2025
Post-doctoral Research Opportunities
Post-Doctoral Positions (10): Entomologist / Taxonomist
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genetics
The CBG (Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph) is hiring 10 entomologists to help improve identifications on barcoded material. Our collection already has well over 15M barcoded specimens (all fully digitized) and is growing fast, with plenty of novel taxa to be found among them. Most candidates will be hired as Postdoctoral Scholars, and applications from outside of Canada are welcome. These will be 2-year appointments with a salary range of CAD $62,500 – $70,000. Strong preference will be given to candidates with expertise in one of the following groups: Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera (especially Chalcidoidea and Formicidae), Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera, Collembola.
Details and application here.
Deadline: September 15, 2025
Start Dates: October 1, 2025 or September 30, 2027
This post is also available in: Français