PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Australia

The University of Melbourne, Australia, is offering fully funded Research Training Program Scholarship support for graduate research degrees across a wide range of disciplines, including Master’s by Research and PhD programmes. The scholarship provides 100% tuition-fee remission, a living stipend of AUD 41,100 per year for 2027, relocation support, and Overseas Student Health Cover for eligible international students. Research Master’s students may receive up to two years of funding, while PhD c...

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Parkville, Melbourne, Australia, is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join the Beavis Laboratory. The 12-month, full-time position will be supervised by Professor Paul Beavis and offers the opportunity to develop independent research directions aligned with the laboratory’s goals. The successful researcher will lead a high-impact cancer immunology project focused on engineering next-generation CAR T cells for solid tumours. The work will emphasise CRISPR-me...

Garvan Institute of Medical Research is seeking a domestic PhD candidate for a project on the immunogenomics of arthritic joint disease in the Masle-Farquhar Lab. The candidate will apply genomic technologies and analytical pipelines available at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to Garvan’s rapidly growing Arthritis Tissue Biobank. The research will analyse the world’s first single-cell, long-read sequencing dataset integrating transcriptomes, clonotypes, isoforms, and acquired mutations d...

A UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship is available in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia, for research on AI-guided molecular recognition. The project combines native mass spectrometry, robotic chemistry and artificial intelligence to develop faster and more informative methods for discovering and characterising molecules that bind to proteins. The successful PhD researcher will contribute to multiplexed, multistage mass spectrometry, automated sample...

The University of Queensland is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Research Officer in severe thunderstorm observations and analysis at the St Lucia Campus in Brisbane, Australia. Working with researchers from the School of Civil Engineering, the School of the Environment and the Bureau of Meteorology, the appointee will undertake fieldwork across Southeast Queensland during severe thunderstorm events. The research involves operating mobile radar, LiDAR and weather-monitoring ...

The University of Melbourne is seeking a part-time Research Fellow for a 12-month fixed-term project on the political ecology of fire and climate change adaptation in the Philippines and Timor-Leste. Based in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, the successful candidate will conduct critical ethnographic research with Indigenous and rural communities, examining fire politics, gendered livelihoods, agrarian change and climate resilience. The role involves engaging respectfully...

The University of Sydney is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Immunotherapy for a full-time, fixed-term appointment at the Camperdown Campus in Australia, working with Professor Cameron Turtle. The successful researcher will conduct independent and collaborative research supporting the School’s research agenda, with a focus on immunotherapy, T-cell immunology, CAR T-cell therapy, and transcription-factor analysis in CAR T cells. The role includes developing an independent research pro...

The University of Sydney is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the School of Medical Sciences at the Darlington Campus in Australia. The successful researcher will contribute to the School’s medical science research agenda through independent and collaborative original research. Working with Professor Margaret Sunde, the postdoctoral researcher will develop research expertise, conduct scholarly activities, build a developing research profile, collaborate with academic, i...

The University of Queensland is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Medicinal Chemist for a fixed-term appointment through December 2028 at the St Lucia Campus in Brisbane, Australia. Based in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, the successful candidate will develop a research program in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and development . Work will include hit-to-lead and lead optimisation, synthetic organic chemistry, small-molecule and peptide synthesis, compoun...