PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Neuroscience in Australia

This full-time Research Fellow position at Monash University’s Clayton campus sits within an exciting structural biology research program focused on the structure and molecular mechanisms of the heme biosynthetic machinery. The successful researcher will lead independent projects using advanced cryo-structural methods, especially single particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) and cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), to help reveal how these important biological processes work at the m...

Australian National University is offering a postdoctoral research position within the Research School of Biology in the ANU College of Science and Medicine. The project is part of a National Health and Medical Research Council Ideas Grant focused on testing a delivery system for releasing therapeutics in the gut to help prevent urinary tract infections. The successful fellow will contribute to a biomedical research program that combines mouse experimentation with metagenomics and RNAseq analyse...

This Research Fellow position at the Australian National University sits at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, and psychology. The project is a collaboration between ANU and the Australian Government, focused on understanding personality in online environments by extracting psychological insights from digital text data. The fellow will work closely with a psychology post-doctoral colleague and contribute to research that fine-tunes and builds orchestration pipelines f...

RMIT University in Melbourne is offering a grant-funded PhD opportunity focused on myelin repair and therapeutic design . The project will investigate how the brain builds and repairs myelin, the insulating material that supports efficient neural communication, and how therapeutic strategies might be designed to promote this repair. The doctoral researcher will work across the Fleiss and Holien labs and use a combination of knockout mouse models and in vitro systems . The research will examine t...

The University of Queensland is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bioinformatics and Research Software Engineering to join the Integrated Design Environment for Advanced Biomanufacturing (IDEA Bio), based at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. The fellow will work with the LEARN team in a collaborative research environment focused on synthetic biology, advanced biomanufacturing and data-driven bioprocess optimisation . The project involves transforming ferment...

IDEA Bio at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to build computational infrastructure for the LEARN team. The role sits within a collaborative environment focused on synthetic biology and advanced biomanufacturing, where the fellow will develop open-source tools and reproducible workflows that turn complex biological datasets into actionable insight. The project brings together fermentation, proteomics, me...

This postdoctoral role is based in IDEA Bio at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus. The successful researcher will work within the IDEA Bio LEARN team on the biological interpretation and integration of multi-omics data to generate practical insights for advanced biomanufacturing. The project brings together fermentation, proteomics, metabolomics and ¹³C-labelling data to understand microbial metabolism in depth. Th...

This PhD scholarship is based at Monash University’s Clayton campus in Melbourne and sits within a Monash AI Institute collaboration between the Arts and IT faculties. The project investigates communication and navigation for blind and low vision people, with a particular focus on how people interact with digital navigational technologies and use multimodal information to build a navigational frame of reference. The student will carry out detailed linguistic and multimodal research on real-world...

Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Devenney team and contribute to a Centre of Excellence biomarker program in dementia and related neurodegenerative diseases. The role is based at NeuRA's world-class research facilities in Randwick, Sydney, Australia. The successful researcher will lead biomarker discovery and multimodal data analysis across well-characterised clinical and research cohorts. Research activities will integrate biomarke...