Postdoctoral Fellowship (09) at University of Queensland, Australia

We are seeking a highly motivated and inquisitive Postdoctoral Research Fellow to contribute to world-leading, industry-connected research within the Australasian Transformer Innovation Centre (TIC) at The University of Queensland. This role sits within a collaborative, ambitious research environment focused on advancing transformer operation, monitoring and life management in renewable-dominated power systems. Working alongside visionary academics, industry experts and research partners, you will help translate cutting-edge research into real-world impact for Australia’s evolving energy network.

Join a visionary and collaborative research environment at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, where discovery science meets real-world impact. This role offers an exceptional opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow in Molecular Biology to contribute to an ambitious program focused on developing next-generation peptide and protein therapeutics for drug-resistant cancers.

Working alongside peptide chemists, biologists and clinicians, you will lead innovative research from early-stage discovery through to translation and commercialisation, supported by world-class infrastructure and a culture that values curiosity, collaboration and purpose.

Join a visionary and collaborative research environment within the Walker Research Group, where you will play a central role in advancing vaccine functional assay development. This role is ideally suited to an early‑career researcher who is passionate about translational science and wants to contribute meaningfully to research that moves discoveries from the laboratory towards real‑world impact.

Working alongside inquisitive colleagues, you will contribute to projects focused on enzyme assay development, recombinant antigen cloning and purification, and biochemical assay testing to investigate correlates of protection, including pathways towards commercialisation of University intellectual property.

The University of Queensland is strengthening its national research capability in plant phenomics through its participation in the Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN). Established under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, APPN provides cutting-edge infrastructure and expertise to advance agricultural productivity across Australia’s diverse production environments. UQ joined APPN in 2024, creating new opportunities for ambitious researchers to work at the intersection of advanced sensing technologies, computation and plant science.

Working under the broad direction of the UQ Node Director, you will contribute specialist expertise in high‑throughput and 3D plant phenotyping, support delivery of national research infrastructure, and play a leading role in developing APPN capabilities at UQ. The role combines hands-on research, platform leadership and collaboration with industry, government and academic partners in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment.

Join a collaborative and fast-growing quantum research environment focused on solving real-world decarbonisation challenges through cutting-edge quantum computing.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow to undertake research in quantum algorithms, error correction, and fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures, with applications to decarbonisation. Based within the Queensland Quantum Decarbonisation Alliance (QDA), you will work with Eleanor Rieffel in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland.

You will join a curious, ambitious and supportive team within a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary community spanning academia, industry and government, contributing to impactful research at the forefront of quantum innovation and sustainability.

This is an exciting opportunity for an emerging researcher to contribute to world-class coastal engineering research within the School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will undertake advanced research in coastal morphodynamics, drawing on a unique three-decade dataset from the Tweed Sand Bypassing Project to develop, test and operationalise coastal models and AI/ML forecasting tools. Working within a highly collaborative and inclusive research environment, the role offers exposure to globally recognised academics, strong government and industry partnerships, and a supportive platform for launching an international academic career.

Join a globally connected research community at the University of Queensland and help shape the future of synthetic biology and pharmaceutical chemistry. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, you will advance your research profile in protein engineering for biocatalysis, working at the frontier of engineering enzymes to enable new-to-Nature chemistry. The aim of this project is to make drug development cleaner, greener and more sustainable by developing biological catalysts of fluorination chemistry based on catalytically versatile and robust enzymes created by ancestral sequence reconstruction.

At UQ, you’ll collaborate with leading researchers in a supportive, high-impact environment that values curiosity, innovation and real-world outcomes. In addition to progressing cutting-edge research, you will contribute to the stewardship of laboratory systems and ensure compliance with WHS, OGTR and regulatory frameworks, while engaging with the broader research community.

If you are motivated to push the boundaries of enzyme engineering and build an emerging international research profile, this role offers the platform, resources and collaborative culture to help you thrive