12 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Queensland, Australia

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.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to focus their efforts on developing their expertise and emerging research profile in material chemistry for energy storage. You will collaborate on research for flow battery projects to support the work of the Luo Group.

At this level it is expected that the incumbent will contribute to service and engagement roles and activities.

This exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow offers a chance to apply and enhance your skills in food technology. You will have the opportunity to develop expertise and bolster your research profile within a multidisciplinary project team. This role will involve exploring the application of specific materials in food and beverage applications. Additionally, the successful applicant will be expected to contribute to service and engagement in the Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA). There may also be opportunities to develop teaching skills during the appointment.

As a Research Fellow contributing to this research program, you will require experience that can contribute to current research in:

• Life course epidemiology

• Maternal and child health

• Social determinants of health

• Health and environment

• Social and biological disadvantage

• Health services

• Wellbeing of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people

• Evidence-based social and health policies and practices

These positions will work on a range of projects, beyond a narrow research specialisation, including Category 1 and externally commissioned research projects. These projects will be in multidisciplinary teams and often in collaboration with non-university stakeholders from government, industry, the not-for-profit sector, and end-user communities. These positions will also prepare and present training courses as required and include project management and administrative tasks.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Horticulture Breeding and Genomics Leader at the Senior/Principal Research Fellow level in the Centre for Horticultural Science (CHS) in the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI).  You will lead and leverage your established record of achievement and national/international recognition to engage in current and new horticultural breeding programs.   You will use predictive and genomic informed breeding methods and collaborate with the expertise in QAAFI’s animal and crop centres. You will be expected to perform a range of high-level service and engagement roles and activities and collaborate with QAAFI’s alliance partner, DAF.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Fellow to focus their efforts on developing their expertise and emerging research profile in synthetic clinical data generation and federated learning.

Access to clinical data for medical research and education is often difficult because of lengthy data sharing agreements and privacy concerns. Two complementary approaches to facilitate access to clinical data are:

• the generation and distribution of synthetic clinical data, i.e. data with similar statistical properties as the real data that was used to generate them, but without identifiable patient information.

• federated learning, whereby a machine learning model can be trained by using data from different clinical sites but without requiring central data aggregation.

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.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow to join our world-leading School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences to support a NHMRC-funded project which aims to evaluate innovative footwear technology for balance rehabilitation in clinical populations.

This role offers a platform on which to further your expertise and growing research profile to achieve national and international recognition in the areas of postural control and motor control. Specifically, you will be responsible for leading complex laboratory-based studies which requires specialised skills in data acquisition and processing using high-density electromyography, 3D motion capture systems, and force plates. At this level, you will also assist in coordinating the activities of other staff, supervising Higher Degree by Research students, and efficiently managing service and engagement roles and activities.

We are seeking a Research Fellow to contribute to the Acquired Brain Injury in Children (ABiC) program. This person will have expertise in concussion, traumatic brain injury, and cutting-edge neuroimaging technologies. They will be required to engage in research to further their expertise and growing research profile, aiming for national recognition in their discipline.

As a Research Fellow within the ABiC program, you will mentor and supervise students, conduct data analyses, manuscript preparation, and pursue independent and collaborative funding opportunities to support research initiatives. The successful candidate will demonstrate competitive proficiency for the NHMRC investigator grant scheme.

An exciting post-doctoral research position is available to join a collaborative group of researchers designing impactful coral reef interventions in Palau (Micronesia) and the Philippines, with a view to sharing outcomes globally. The team partners reef ecologists at UQ with researchers at the University of the Philippines, the Palau International Coral Reef Center, and the University of Newcastle (UK). Specifically, we are developing intervention strategies, including restoration, that help coral reefs adapt to climate change and in a range of ecological environments.

The position is based at UQ but will involve field travel to Palau and potentially the Philippines. Specific activities include both field studies to measure key ecological processes as well as the use of an existing ecological model to simulate alternative management strategies. The project will have practical benefits for reef restoration but also contribute to a broader theoretical agenda on how to construct complementary management approaches to maximise the future trajectory of corals.

Synthetic biology is characterised by a cyclic workflow based on the design, build, test, learn paradigm. The emergence of genome-foundries allows for the rapid, but still costly, generation of large numbers of engineered strains. The University of Queensland is establishing a complementary facility to genome-foundries, the Integrated Design Environment for Advanced biomanufacturing (IDEA bio, https://www.ideabio.org.au/). This facility will consist of a TEST capability that allows for a deep phenomic characterisation of mutant strains, in partnership with Queensland Metabolomics and Proteomics (Q MAP https://www.qmap.org.au/) and the Australian Genome Foundry (Macquarie University), as well as a LEARN capability that seeks to learn from large ‘omics data sets and direct strain optimisation, pathway optimisation and metabolic engineering to advance synthetic biology efforts in Australia.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who specialises in metabolic modelling and ‘omics data driven characterisation of cells. You will join a team of researchers to establish systems biology-based workflows to drive the data-driven bioprocess optimisation capability of this facility, including strain design. The position is primarily computationally based and will work with a bioinformatician/data scientist to use modelling and machine-learning approaches to learn from large data sets to inform further strain engineering or bioprocess optimisation rounds.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to focus their efforts on developing their expertise and emerging research profile in ultracold atoms and hydrodynamics of quantum fluids. As research focused academic at level A 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, it is expected that you will contribute to service and engagement roles and activities as well.

This position is in the theoretical group for Quantum Many-Body Dynamics (QMBD) led by Prof. Karen Kheruntsyan. The QMBD group is a recent offshoot of the quantum gases, condensed matter, and AMO physics research efforts that have been a core research strength in Quantum Science in the SMP for more than two decades. Other quantum gases, condensed matter, and AMO theorists that we closely interact with include Prof Matthew Davis, Dr. Joel Corney, A/Prof Jacinda Gringes, Prof. Ross McKenzie, and Prof. Ben Powel. We also closely interact with the UQ Bose-Einstein Condensation laboratory, led by Prof. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop with Dr. Tyler Neely, and with the Quantum Optics laboratory of Prof. Warwick Bowen.