Our Postdocs

Dr. Eriksson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Wiseman group in the Biological Sciences department. Dr. Eriksson's research focuses on how anthropogenic pollution impacts and affects fish at multiple levels of biological organization; ranging from (gen)omic alterations to physiology, and behaviour. 

Research Interests include: Environmental toxicology, (gen)omics, developmental toxicology, bioinformatics, biostatistics.

Research focuses on beef cattle welfare and behaviour, with a particular interest in how emerging technologies and artificial intelligence can support improvements in animal welfare and management.

Dr. Ghasemi Gojani is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience. His Research Interests include: current research focuses mainly on Alzheimer’s disease, specifically the impact of psychedelic microdosing on Alzheimer’s pathology

Research Interests include: Neuroscience; Alzheimer Disease; Social neuroethology

Research interests include: avian ecology with current project on Alberta's greater sage-grouse population.

Research Interests include: sporadic Alzheimer’s disease

Research interests include: cognitive neuroscience, digital neuroscience, video games, neuroimaging

Research interests include: high-energy astrophysics. Specifically, I do multi-wavelength analyses of X-ray binaries in the Milky Way and beyond

Research interests include: Food Microbiology and Bioinformatics.

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Dr. Pounder is an Alberta Innovates funded Postdoctoral Fellow working with Faculty Advisors Dr. Stacey D. Wetmore and Dr. Jean-Denys Hamel. Dr. Pounder's research interests include: Computational (bio)organic chemistry.

Earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Miami, Parth is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with the Wetmore Lab to build quantum computation models of DNA-editing enzymes to identify prospective targets for gene therapy. In his spare time, Parth is an avid sci-fi reader, audiophile and photographer. 

Kaniz Jannat is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health Sciences. She is committed to advancing evidence-based approaches that improve child health outcomes globally. Her postdoctoral research focuses on supporting children and youth with ADHD through innovative nutritional interventions as part of the POINT study. She has over a decade of experience in global child health research, including randomized controlled trials and community-based interventions aimed at improving nutrition, growth, and developmental outcomes.

She is particularly passionate about the role of gut health in shaping overall well-being and is working to advance research on microbiome-focused nutritional strategies for mothers and children. Her broader interests include designing and evaluating interventions that promote children’s health and support better long-term developmental and health trajectories.

Dr. John Robert White is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy whose work aims to fundamentally reconfigure biodiversity science through decolonial, biocultural data integration. He is developing “Ethnobiodiversity Informatics” as a paradigm-shifting framework for linking biological, cultural, linguistic, archaeological, and ecological datasets so that different disciplines and knowledge traditions can tag, annotate, and analyze data on their own terms. He is establishing an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural plant science and data lab that builds software, database add-ons, and shared reference collections (including phenology and diagnostic phytolith datasets for lesser-known crops and crop wild relatives) to enable interoperability analysis, expose cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary mismatches, and catalyze new research directions. Since 2010, he has worked closely with Kichwa communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon and is now extending this work through emerging collaborations with Blackfoot and other North American Indigenous groups to co-produce more just, usable, and future-oriented biocultural data infrastructures.