Postdoctoral Scholars

Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of California, Santa Barbara

UCSB hosts nearly 300 postdoctoral scholars each year as they pursue further research training in the sciences, engineering disciplines, social sciences, and the humanities. In the past several decades, UCSB has earned a reputation as a distinguished research and teaching institution and is one of only 62 research-intensive universities elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. Our faculty includes five Nobel Prize winners and scores of elected members of national and international academies and societies, as well as dozens of winners of prestigious national awards.

UCSB is home to eleven national centers and institutes, eight of which are sponsored by the National Science Foundation, including the Materials Research Laboratory, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, the Southern California Earthquake Center, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Other centers and institutes engaging significant numbers of postdoctoral scholars in advanced research include:

• California Nanosystems Institute (in collaboration with UCLA)
• Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
• Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
• Institute for Quantum and Complex Dynamics
• Marine Science Institute
• Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials
• Neuroscience Research Institute

Especially active as well with postdoctoral research are the departments of:

• Chemical Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
• Physics
• Psychology

Postdoctoral scholars find a highly collaborative, and often interdisciplinary, array of advanced research endeavors at UCSB.

IMPORTANT LINKS

Postdoc Processes Meeting Presentation

UCSB Information on Postdoctoral Scholars

Summary of on-line and people contacts for information on policies affecting postdoctoral scholars, appointment procedures, benefits information, international scholars, etc.

APM-390

Sections of the University of California Academic Personnel Manual that define the research expectations for postdoctoral scholars, the mentoring of postdoctoral scholars, appointment criteria, grievance processes, etc.

The Red Binder

Sections III-18, III-19, and III-20 of the UCSB Campus Policies and Procedures on Academic Personnel (Red Binder) pertaining to the appointment of postdoctoral scholars.

The University of California Council of Postdoctoral Scholars

• Link to the UC CPS Website
• 2007-08 Representative to be appointed

FAQs About Union Representation

TOOLS

Chart Defining "Postdoctoral Scholar" Positions

Chart defining the criteria required for appointing postdoctoral scholars into the three title codes (3252, 3253, 3254) or for using more appropriate title codes.

Forms for Appointing a Postdoctoral Scholar and for Requesting an Exception to Appointment Criteria

• Postdoctoral Scholar Appointment Form Letter
• Summary B (to confirm open recruitment processes)
• UCSB Biography
• Postdoctoral Appointments: Requesting Exceptions to Policy

Postdoctoral Salary Scales

The minimum and maximum annual salaries for postdoctoral scholars at UCSB

Benefits Information for Postdoctoral Scholars

A link to the Human Resources web site and to Cyndi Richardson, the benefits administrator.

PPS Entry for Postdoctoral Scholars

A guide to the codes used for entering postdoctoral scholars with title codes 3252, 3253, and 3254 into the Payroll/Personnel System (PPS)