After obtaining his Ph.D., Kabir continued as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and then at Stanford.  He worked as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota from 2011-2012 before returning to Stanford as an assistant professor in September 2012. His primary research focus is community ecology and he encourages people in his lab to use a wide range of experimental approaches and technical tools, such as remote sensing, stable isotopes, gas exchange analyses and molecular genetics, to study a number of ecological topics. He works primarily on plant-fungal interactions.