CSIRO, Canberra, Australia invites multiple online application for Postdoctoral Fellowships in various research areas. Candidates interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.
1. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The role of Research Scientist Staff in CSIRO is to conduct innovative research leading to scientific achievements that are aligned with CSIRO’s strategies. They may be engaged in scientific activity ranging from fundamental research to the investigation of specific industry or community problems.
This position is located in the Coastal Hydrodynamic Modelling (CHM) team who along with the Coastal Biogeochemical Modelling team sit within the Marine Systems Modelling and Informatics group in the Coasts and Ocean Research Program of the Oceans and Atmosphere Division. The two teams develop and apply integrated, multi-disciplinary models, linking hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics and biogeochemical processes, to address a wide range of coastal environmental issues. This group includes experienced physical and biogeochemical / ecological modellers, and strong technical software support.
Application Deadline: 13th November 2022
2. Postdoctoral Position in Hydrometallurgy Critical Minerals
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
As a Senior Research Scientist/ Engineer, you will conduct innovative research aligned with Program strategy in hydrometallurgy-based mineral processing, including critical mineral processing. Working closely with existing staff, you will engage in scientific activity ranging from fundamental research to the investigation of specific industry challenges. You will play a lead role in providing scientific leadership and pursuing new ideas and approaches with the intent to improve existing and create new commercial opportunities for mineral processing.
In particular, you will also leverage your status as a researcher (publications, citations, postgraduate completions and existing academic/research network) to deliver growth in postdoctoral fellows actively engaged in hydrometallurgical research relevant to critical minerals (e.g. lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, high purity alumina) through pathways internal and external to CSIRO.
Application Deadline: 27 November 2022
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3. Postdoctoral Position in Photovoltaics
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The CERC Fellow will play a critical role in the operation and growth of CSIRO’s Solar PV Performance Laboratory. They will share responsibility for procurement, commissioning and operation of three new facilities for solar photovoltaics testing at the Newcastle site. Working in a team of scientists, they will use these facilities for R&D associated with new thin-film solar PV technologies, including perovskite and organic solar cells. The research will likely include developing new approaches to reliable measurement of performance for these devices.
Application Deadline: 24 November 2022
4. Postdoctoral Position in Industrial Biotechnology
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This role represents a key component for the development of new research approach and technologies platform (i.e., digital systems) that can be implemented through the food supply chains for real-time monitoring of food safety assurance. The role will be closely integrated with other members of the novel functional food products team providing technology platforms, and expertise to support research commercialisation and/or grant funding which will form the basis for developing similarly essential aspects related to food safety and quality (i.e., freshness markers, allergens, contaminants, and chemical residues) across the agriculture sector.
Application Deadline: 31 October 2022
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5. Postdoctoral Position in Quantum Materials and Devices
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking an ambitious individual to join the Graphene Materials and Devices Team. The Graphene Materials and Devices Team has extensive experience in the production and application of graphene and other 2D materials. The team tackles global problems in the areas of clean energy, water, sensing and quantum technologies. Partnering with the Quantum Technologies Future Science Platform, the successful candidate will be pivotal in developing new areas of quantum technology research within CSIRO by working with 2D material systems to develop exciting and novel quantum devices.
Application Deadline: 1 December 2022
6. Postdoctoral Position in Co-Designed AI and Digital Data Translation Tools for Environment
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This project will examine if, and how, digital co-design approaches can fuse multiple sources of evidence to derive robust input to supporting management of wildlife species in ways which strengthen both social and technical confidence in a program’s outcomes. The focus of this position is on developing the next-generation of collaborative data collection and analytical approaches which enable to translation and communication of complex data streams into interpretable and meaningful data narratives, including through natural language processing, Artificial Intelligence enabled data visualization approaches and/or digital dashboard design.
Application Deadline: 16 November 2022
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7. Postdoctoral Position in Ecological Data Integration
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This project will examine if, and how, digital co-design approaches can fuse multiple sources of evidence to derive robust input to supporting management of wildlife species in ways which strengthen both social and technical confidence in a monitoring program’s outcomes. The focus of this position is on developing the next-generation of integrative data analytical approaches which enable the meaningful combination and use of multiple different data sources into best available and technically robust monitoring of state and change in ecosystems and/or species.
Application Deadline: 16 November 2022
8. Postdoctoral Position in Structural Geology
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.
The successful candidate will join the CMR Discovery Program and will work with a multidisciplinary group of CSIRO researchers, mining and exploration industry and government agencies. The role will engage in applied research from basin to deposit-scale and will mainly focus on the structural evolution of sedimentary basins and orogenic belts, basin reconstruction, and integration of multi-disciplinary datasets in 3D basin or deposit models.
Application Deadline: 20 November 2022
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9. Postdoctoral Position in Quantum Optical Communications
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Quantum Technologies Future Science Platform (FSP) aims to establish and grow capacity in quantum technology research and development at CSIRO. The opportunity we are seizing leverages existing expertise while extending into new, uncharted areas of discovery in quantum science and technology. The ideal candidate will have an interest in industrial application of quantum technologies, in solving problems that may have real commercial value, and in making an impact to better the lives of Australians. These areas of focus represent the biggest challenge facing the evolution of “quantum technologies” into a bona fide industry: identifying applications where quantum advantage can be achieved.
Application Deadline: 1 December 2022
10. Postdoctoral Position in Quantum Software Development
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Quantum Technologies Future Science Platform (QT-FSP) aims to establish and grow capacity in quantum technology research and development at CSIRO and is part of a larger strategic investment in Quantum at CSIRO. The opportunity we are seizing leverages existing expertise while extending into new, uncharted areas of discovery in quantum science and technology.
Ideally, the successful candidate will have an interest in industrial application of quantum technologies, in solving problems that may have real commercial value, and in making an impact to better the lives of Australians. These areas of focus represent the biggest challenge facing the evolution of “quantum technologies” into a bona fide industry: identifying applications where quantum advantage can be achieved.
Application Deadline: 10 November 2022
11. Postdoctoral Position in Digital Transformation for Sustainability Science
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Reef Trust Partnership and the Reef 2050 Plan brings together researchers, government managers, Traditional Owners as First Nations peoples, farmers, fishers, and other stakeholders to generate novel and effective recovery pathways for the Great Barrier Reef.
Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) are a key environmental threatening process on the iconic GBR, and ~$20m/year is spent culling COTS to protect key reef assets within the GBR. To decide where these investments will be targeted, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority annually identifies “high priority locations” for COTS control using advanced digital decision-support tools balancing a range of environmental, economic and social values.
Application Deadline: 9 November 2022
12. Postdoctoral Position in Intelligent Crop Design
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
In this position you will develop cutting-edge technologies, leveraging big datasets and machine learning to design gene editing tools and strategies that will rapidly deliver bespoke crop solutions to grain producers. In collaboration with research partners and industry (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), CIMMYT Australia ICARDA Germplasm Evaluation (CAIGE) and Rebel Seeds), the CERC fellow will interact directly with beneficiaries of this research. Reinvention of the crop breeding process in this project will impact global food security through delivery of profitable and sustainable crops adapted to future climates.
Application Deadline: 28 November 2022
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13. Postdoctoral Position in Machine Learning
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The fellow will research, design, develop and apply new machine learning (ML) algorithms for causal inference in complex multiscale systems. These algorithms will address challenges concerning uncertainty quantification and propagation, probabilistic inference in high-dimensional systems, and modelling dynamics and causal relationships. It is expected that the solutions developed by the fellow will be based on sound mathematical and practical frameworks such as deep neural networks, variational inference, structural causal models, neural differential equations, and/or state-space models.
Application Deadline: 7 November, 2022
14. Postdoctoral Position in Quantum Battery Theories
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
CSIRO Manufacturing are seeking an early career researcher with experience in one or some of the following areas: atom-cavity physics, light-matter interaction, analytical and/or computational many-body, quantum thermodynamics, quantum information theory, quantum chemistry to join the Emerging Energy Technologies team. The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to the development of quantum battery theory and will work with experimentalists in the development of the quantum battery.
Application Deadline: 21 November 2022
15. Postdoctoral Position in Organic Solar Cells
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system. CSIRO Manufacturing has dedicated research teams focusing on printed organic solar cells. Our Printable Photovoltaics Team has an opportunity for a self-motivated and innovative postdoctoral fellow from a physical chemistry, chemistry, physics, engineering or materials science background to join an exciting, interdisciplinary team in the priority area of organic solar cells.
Application Deadline: 2 November 2022
16. Postdoctoral Position in Developing Acoustic Technology for Livestock Monitoring
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This project aims to provide novel monitoring technology to the farm, providing objective monitoring tools that currently don’t exist; based on monitoring approaches that at best are applied in a haphazard manner because of the cost associated with manual assessment, and considered inherently untrustworthy due to their subjective nature. This provides Agribusiness, government and farmers will have a robust and objective means of measuring and setting standards aimed at improving environmental and ethical (animal welfare) outcomes.
Application Deadline: 13 November 2022
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17. Postdoctoral Position in Food System Transformation
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Postdoctoral Fellow will make significant contributions in developing the evidence base and associated tools to establish a framework of the Australian food system. The framework will have the capacity to monitor and report performances across key dimensions of the food system (e.g. nutrition/health, economic, social, and environmental), help assess and compare the rate and robustness of progress over time, explore interrelationships, identify gaps and vulnerabilities, summarize environmental footprints, and present outlooks.
Application Deadline: 24 November 2022
18. Postdoctoral Position in Plant Synthetic Biology
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are thrilled to be able to deliver on the commitment we made in our strategy to invest in frontier science with the CSIRO Agriculture & Food Winanga-y Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. The name Winanga-y (pronounced win-na-gnay) is a cultural asset lent to us from the local Gamilaroi mob in Myall Vale. Winanga-y means to understand, know, remember, and think. The successful CERC Fellow will develop novel technologies to enable ultra-high-level expression of high value proteins in plants.
This project is driven by the growing demand for novel proteins in alternative food and pharmaceutical industries, and urgency for more sustainable methods of protein production. Using synthetic biology and advanced plant breeding technologies, the CERC Fellow will drive the research, design, development and testing of novel plant protein expression systems. This will involve considerations of RNA optimisation, subcellular targeting, protein modelling and a range of downstream protein functional analyses.
Application Deadline: 2 November 2022
19. Postdoctoral Position in Reproductive Biology and Genome Engineering in Mammals
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are thrilled to be able to deliver on the commitment we made in our strategy to invest in frontier science with the CSIRO Agriculture & Food Winanga-y Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. The word Winanga-y (pronounced win-na-gnay) is a cultural asset gifted by the Gomeroi Nation in Myall Vale to CSIRO’s Agriculture and Food Business Unit to name the new Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme. Winanga-y means to understand, know, remember, and think. This CERC Fellowship is in the field of reproductive biology and genome engineering in mammals. The broad aim of the project is to develop strategies to control the sex of offspring to improve animal welfare.
Application Deadline: 31 October 2022
20. Postdoctoral Position in Bioactive Peptide Research
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are thrilled to be able to deliver on the commitment we made in our strategy to invest in frontier science with the CSIRO Agriculture & Food Winanga-y Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. The word Winanga-y (pronounced win-na-gnay) is a cultural asset gifted by the Gomeroi Nation in Myall Vale to CSIRO’s Agriculture and Food Business Unit to name the Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme. Winanga-y means to understand, know, remember, and think.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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21. Postdoctoral Position in Nutritional and Health Qualities of Insect Protein
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are thrilled to be able to deliver on the commitment we made in our strategy to invest in frontier science with the CSIRO Agriculture & Food Winanga-y Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. The word Winanga-y (pronounced win-na-gnay) is a cultural asset gifted by the Gomeroi Nation in Myall Vale to CSIRO’s Agriculture and Food Business Unit to name the new Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme. Winanga-y means to understand, know, remember, and think. The global insect protein market is projected to reach USD $8 billion by 2030.
The safety of insect-based products needs full attention, as food safety is closely linked to legislative approval. Insects are increasingly processed as protein for feed and food, data on safety and nutrition (allergenicity, toxic potential, antinutrients, microbial risk and microbial/enzymatic stability, and nutrient stability) relates to processing conditions is limited. The CERC Fellow will closely work with domain-specific national and international collaborators to obtain skills in food processing, allergen detection and quantification using proteomics and analytical chemistry, big data mining strategies, and microbial screening for food safety using microbiological assays.
Application Deadline: 31 October 2022
22. Postdoctoral Position in Food System Transformation
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Postdoctoral Fellow will undertake analyses that explore the integrated set of social, technical, institutional, policy and power dynamics that constrain or facilitate change in different domains of the food system towards improved nutritional, environmental or social performance. The research will be an integral part of the Food System Horizon Initiative. As such the Fellow will work closely with team members to develop the overall vision, conceptual and operational approach and research profile of the Initiative. Guided by systems thinking the Postdoctoral Fellow will contribute to an advanced understanding of how and where Australia’s food systems needs to be transformed to become more sustainable, resilient and just in a globally changing world.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
