12 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Queensland, Australia

The grains industry has a gross value of > $30 billion per year produced from sowing 25 M ha of crops and is a major export industry for Australia. The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) uses grower levies to fund more than 800 research, development and extension (RD&E) investments worth $177 million (2022-23). UQ co-invests in grains research including via a new initiative, Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI) which involves researchers and students from the Schools of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, Maths and Physics, and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science as well as from QAAFI (Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation – co-funded by the Queensland Government).

AAGI is a five-year strategic partnership across UQ, Curtin University, and the University of Adelaide that is aimed at harnessing analytics to drive the sector’s profitability and global impact. AAGI gives Australian growers an opportunity to be world leaders in analytics-driven decision making to drive efficiency and precision and support farm enterprise risk management. AAGI at UQ provides an exciting environment for researchers to focus their efforts on developing their expertise and emerging research profile in their discipline.

This is a fixed-term position for up to 3 years. This postdoctoral fellowship position based in the School of Mathematics and Physics will apply mathematical optimisation methods to examine analyse and optimise supply-chain related to the inputs (seeds, fertiliser, management etc) and outputs (yield and quality traits) associated with the on-farm production as well as storage and off-farm movement of grain crop products. In addition to AAGI, this position will service research needs of other UQ and GRDC supported projects

This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work with multidisciplinary academic and industry partners and apply their skills in formulation technology. We are seeking an outcome-driven scientist to progress multiple research projects and teach and mentor students in pharmaceutical formulations relevant to the ARC Training Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance (CEAStAR).

Based at UQ’s School of Pharmacy, the Postdoctoral Research Fellow will play an integral role in engaging with industry and external partners to foster the Centre’s collaborative partnerships. The formulation theme will explore developing and optimising translatable formulations delivering multiple antimicrobial agents. Working closely with theme leaders and industry partners, these projects are highly multidisciplinary and time bound.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to focus your efforts on developing your expertise and emerging research profile in gas fermentation. As a research-focused academic at level A, focusing on gas fermentation, you will be supported and guided by more senior academic research staff with the expectation of an increasing degree of autonomy over time. At this level, you are also expected to contribute to service and engagement roles and activities.

These are two exciting opportunities for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow to contribute to an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on Human Sensorimotor Control within the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. As the Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow, you will work as part of an international team but will be based in the Centre for Sensorimotor Performance.

This project focuses on enhancing understanding of human motor behaviour from a physiological and computational perspective, and would suit applicants with expertise in electrophysiology, computational modelling, and/or biomechanics methods.

We are seeking an inspired and talented postdoctoral researcher in molecular immunology to join our team. The project will explore the molecular basis of immunity to infection, inter-individual immune variation, and vaccine responsiveness using samples from human experimental infection models, vaccination, or clinical settings. The primary focus of the research is to accelerate the development of immunotherapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics against chronic infectious diseases as well as other autoimmune or neurodegenerative diseases caused by infectious agents, using systems immunology as a platform. It will provide an opportunity to be involved in cutting-edge advances spanning diverse fields of immunology and functional genomics, including single-call and spatial transcriptomics. The work will complement ongoing systems-based and therapeutic development efforts at UQ directed at infectious and chronic disease and is anticipated to have broad application to many disease targets. The successful applicant will be encouraged to pursue independent research interests and supported in their career development.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to apply their subject matter expertise and advanced knowledge of Neuroscience to join the research team led by Dr Tara Walker.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to focus their efforts on developing their expertise and emerging research profile in their discipline. At this level it is expected that the incumbent will contribute to service and engagement roles and activities.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Research Fellow, with expertise in clinical pain science, to join our world-class School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. This is an exciting opportunity to engage in research to further your expertise and growing research profile to achieve national recognition in clinical pain science and an opportunity to manage service and engagement roles and activities.

The successful applicant will take a leadership role in research projects funded by a new NHMRC Synergy Grant, and will play a central role in the administration and organisation of the relevant project(s) within Professor Paul Hodges’ research group within the School. The role includes engagement with chief investigators and associate investigators for the grant across Australia and internationally.

The projects encompass the development and testing of multimodal measurement tool(s) to identify the predominant mechanism for a patient’s pain (in collaboration with the International Association for the Study of Pain Terminology Task Force), and research to understand the neurobiology of pain. Projects include consensus projects with international expert leaders in pain research, cohort studies with diverse measurement methods, and studies to investigate neurobiological mechanisms that underpin different pain presentations.

The focus of our research is to uncover the interplay of environmental factors and genetics on the function of dopaminergic neurons. The position is supported by the NHMRC.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to focus their efforts on developing their expertise and emerging research profile in chronobiology and sleep and will be supported and guided by more senior academic research staff with the expectation of an increasing degree of autonomy over time.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Research Fellow, with expertise in the areas of social connections and wellbeing in older adults, to join our world-leading School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Our School has a long tradition of high achievement in teaching and research in audiology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech pathology. As one of Australia’s leading health and rehabilitation educators, the School is recognised internationally for its teaching and research staff, alumni and quality of students. 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to engage in research to further your expertise and growing research profile to achieve national recognition in your discipline. At this level you will also be responsible for efficiently managing service and engagement roles and activities.

An exciting opportunity exists for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow skilled in advanced transmission electron microscopy characterisation. This position is for a 3-year appointment and will look to further develop advanced transmission electron microscopy imaging methods for electrocatalyst and membrane materials in carbon dioxide electrolysers. The purpose of this work is to build a better understanding of the structure-property relationships in carbon dioxide electrolysers to allow for improved material design.  

This position is part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence, Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2). GETCO2 is a national research Centre which is administered by the University of Queensland (UQ) and has Nodes at the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Monash University, RMIT, Griffith University and University of Adelaide.