15 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Queensland, Australia

This is an exciting opportunity to join UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation to contribute to the development of innovative approaches to exploit genetic variation and accelerate the improvement of legume grain crops for Australia, such as chickpea, faba bean and lentil. In this position, you will develop and apply innovative breeding approaches and contribute to UQ’s leading AI-guided breeding pipeline, to rapidly stack high-value haplotypes for a range of traits into elite germplasm. This will require the integration of several technologies, such as genomics, machine learning, genetic simulation and speed breeding. This is a unique opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow to learn from leaders in the field and to further develop their expertise and research profile.

The primary purpose of this position is research into new herbicides candidates for weeds of national significance and interactions with biological control agents developed for those weeds. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Level A) and Research Fellow (Level B) to engage in research in a vibrant multidisciplinary team in the field of Developmental Science. The team is led by ARC Laureate Professor Karen Thorpe with a strong focus on the impacts of early life experiences of life course trajectories of health, education and social inclusion. A particular remit is examining strategies to disrupt cycles of disadvantage as an active group within the ARC Centre of Excellence for children and families across the Life Course (Life Course centre).

The team has a strong commitment to grow the research profile of early and mid career researchers to achieve national recognition – supporting engagement with industry and research fellowships. At this level it is expected that you will efficiently manage service and engagement roles and activities.

Join our pioneering team at the University of Queensland’s Child and Youth Mental Health group, where we’re on the cutting edge of genetic epidemiology research in children and young people’s mental health. We’re seeking a dynamic Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Fellow to lead the charge in uncovering the genetic factors behind childhood psychiatric disorders. As part of prestigious initiatives like the PRE-EMPT Centre of Research Excellence and the Youth-GEMs consortium, you’ll play a vital role in shaping the future of mental health interventions for young people. Based in the heart of Brisbane’s cultural precinct at the Child Health Research Centre, this is an opportunity to make a real difference.

This Postdoctoral Research Fellow position will focus on investigating the molecular and genetic basis of bacterial and fungal resistance to existing and novel antimicrobials. The successful candidate will contribute to and support the Blaskovich group’s research program focused on the discovery and development of novel therapeutic leads to treat bacterial and fungal infections, including fundamental investigations into the interactions of antibiotics with bacteria in order to rationally design better antibiotics. 

Contribute as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to develop more climate resilient hybrid crops, funded by the Australian Research Council in partnership with GenTech and the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.

This project will use multi-disciplinary approaches to advance understanding of the reproductive steps which limit hybrid seed set under high temperatures and develop more resilient sorghum hybrid crops for both Australia and globally.

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2) gathers a critical mass of expertise to tackle the world’s biggest challenge – carbon dioxide. Led by Professor Xiwang Zhang, GETCO2 is a $45M, 7-year collaboration funded by the ARC, university, industry, and government partners. Our national university partners are The University of Queensland, Griffith University, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, RMIT, Monash University and University of Adelaide. GETCO2 is the world’s largest research endeavour focusing on conversion of CO2 into useful products such as fuels and chemicals. Acting as a focal point for research, training, technology translation and advice, GETCO2 is positioned as a global leader in carbon dioxide transformation. The Centre aims to generate long-term economic, social, and environmental benefits by building capacity and capability to address national and international net-zero obligations.

Large biobanks, such as the UK Biobank, have rich phenotypic and genetic information that can be used to address fundamental questions about the association between genomes and phenomes, the association between different traits (including disease) and the limits of phenotypic prediction from multivariate data. This Project aims to use multi-modal imaging data from the UK Biobank to dissect genetic variation of phenotypes derived from imaging data and quantify their association with other (non-imaging) complex traits.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (Level B or C) to work within the Children’s Intensive Care Research Program (ChIRP) on leveraging large volumes of granular paediatric intensive care data to develop risk prediction models, and translate models into clinical practice. The successful applicant will ideally have a growing research profile in data science, machine learning, or digital signal processing (research experience or interest in child health/intensive care research desirable), and will be expected to efficiently manage service and engagement roles and activities alongside their research.

This exciting opportunity is a 2-year appointment and is part of a collaboration between three leading institutions: the University of Queensland, Monash University and Bondi Bio. You will contribute to characterising a library of genetically engineered cyanobacterial strains for the production of natural products in instrumented photobioreactors and perform detailed multi-omics characterisation.

Join the prestigious Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research (AWaGHR) Centre at the UQ School of Public Health, a leading institution ranked among the top 50 worldwide universities. We are actively seeking an exceptional Senior Research Fellow to drive forward our pioneering work in women and girls’ health research.

In this pivotal role, you will have the opportunity to shape and develop a robust research program contributing to the advancement of health and health service use for women and girls. Your expertise will play a vital role in shaping research directions and fostering innovation within our dynamic Centre.

As a Senior Research Fellow, you will leverage your extensive research experience in women’s health service use (particularly Medicare and PBS usage) to lead and contribute to groundbreaking studies, publishing your findings in esteemed international and national journals. You will also play a key role in securing research funding, driving projects that aim to translate research knowledge into tangible improvements in clinical practice and public health policies.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow to take a leading role in hydrogeochemical modelling and monitoring of mine waste rock dumps as part of an ARC-Linkage project. The Research Fellow will work with a team of geochemists, hydrologists and geophysicists in the Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry, School of Civil Engineering and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The Research Fellow will also collaborate with project industry partners, and international research partners in Canada and France.

An exciting opportunity exists for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with expertise in disaster risk and vulnerability as it relates to infrastructure and the built environment. This position is for a 1.5 year appointment and will look to develop our understanding of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure assets, networks, and buildings to a range of natural hazards (primarily wind, flood and fire). The purpose of this work is to, where possible, develop quantitative fragility or vulnerability models that can be used within risk assessment or disaster scenario planning frameworks.