Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation | Centre for Crop Science
Full-time fixed-term position for up to 20 months
Base salary will be in the range $82,057.75 - $109,246.18 + 17% Superannuation (Academic Level A)
Based at our St Lucia Campus
Create change with impact as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow contributing to the future of profitable and sustainable agriculture.
In this role, you’ll focus your research on improving field crop adaptive traits — from resource-use efficiency to yield performance — helping to address global challenges in food security and climate resilience. Working within a world-class research environment, you’ll combine your skills in plant and crop physiology, modelling, phenotyping, data science, and statistics to uncover insights that drive real-world improvements in crop productivity.
You’ll collaborate with leading researchers and industry partners to translate discovery into impact, developing your research profile while contributing to outcomes that matter to farmers, communities, and the planet.
Key responsibilities will include:
Advance innovative research in crop physiology and modelling across multiple crops (including cereals and legumes), develop modelling software, combining experimental and modelling approaches to improve yield and resource-use efficiency.
Collaborate, mentor, and grow—supervise students, contribute to joint research projects and funding applications, and help develop an emerging research program with real-world impact.
Translate discovery into change by publishing in high-quality journals, engaging with industry and research partners, and contributing to UQ’s collaborative and purpose-driven research community.
This is a research focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ’s Criteria for Academic Performance.
As part of the UQ community, you will have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world, and within an environment where interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged.
At the core of our teaching remains our students, and their experience with us sets a foundation for success far beyond graduation. UQ has made a commitment to making education opportunities available for all Queenslanders, regardless of personal, financial, or geographical barriers.
As part of our commitment to excellence in research and professional practice in academic contexts, we are proud to provide our staff with access to world-class facilities and equipment, grant writing support, greater research funding opportunities, and other forms of staff support and development.
The greater benefits of joining the UQ community are broad: from being part of a Group of Eight university, to recognition of prior service with other Australian universities, up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, flexible working arrangements including hybrid on site/WFH options and flexible start/finish times, access to exclusive internal-only vacancies, and genuine career progression opportunities via the academic promotions process.
Completion or near completion of a PhD in Crop Science, Plant/Crop Physiology, Mathematical Modelling or a related field
Experience and expertise in experimental and/or modelling crop adaptive traits
Evidence of publications in reputed refereed journals and presenting at conferences
Demonstrated experience in organising tasks, working effectively in multi-disciplinary teams or individually and meeting deadlines.
Good interpersonal skills, including the initiative, drive and flexibility to achieve results.
High levels of personal integrity, transparency and capability.
Experience in computer coding for data analysis and visualisation (e.g. R, Python) is desirable
The successful candidate may be required to complete a number of pre-employment checks, including: right to work in Australia and education check.
You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Employer sponsored work rights are not available for this appointment.
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Dr Alex Wu at c.wu1@uq.edu.au.
For application inquiries, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team at talent@uq.edu.au, stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.
We welcome applications from all individuals and are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. To be considered, please ensure you upload:
Resume
Cover letter
Responses to the ‘About You’ section
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UQ is committed to a fair, equitable and inclusive selection process, which recognises that some applicants may face additional barriers and challenges which have impacted and/or continue to impact their career trajectory. Candidates who don’t meet all criteria are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their potential. The selection panel considers both potential and performance relative to opportunities when assessing suitability for the role.
Applications close Tuesday 18 November 2025 at 11.00pm AEST (R-57918). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for the week commencing November 24 2025.