Postdoctoral Fellowship In Edna Modelling

**Acknowledgement of Country**

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**Role highlights**
- **Support research that pushes the boundaries of eDNA science**:

- **Join a multidisciplinary, innovative and collaborative team**:

- **Launch your career at CSIRO - Australia's National Science Agency**

**About CSIRO**

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

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**The opportunity**

CSIRO has collected large amounts of valuable environmental DNA (eDNA) data and now has the chance to use this data to transform how we observe and protect marine ecosystems. Towards this end, CSIRO has recently formed a multidisciplinary team, in collaboration with the Minderoo Foundation, dedicated to pushing the boundaries of eDNA science through exploring eDNA enrichment, quantification and modelling/software methods.

We are seeking a creative and motivated Early Career Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join this team. This is a unique opportunity to take a lead role in eDNA modelling and software development and to conduct large-scale re-analysis of existing and emerging eDNA metabarcoding datasets obtained in Australian coastal waters.

**Your high-level duties will include**:

- Conduct large-scale analysis of pre-existing and new eDNA metabarcoding datasets obtained in Australian coastal waters.
- Co-develop a new computational tool and/or indices for detecting early signals of marine ecosystem change.
- Lead the analysis and publication of research outcomes in high quality publications.
- Carry out innovative, impactful research of strategic importance to CSIRO that will, where possible, lead to novel and important scientific outcomes.

**Role particulars**

**Location**:Perth, WA

**Salary**: AU$96,811 - AU$109,527 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) + 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure & work schedule**:Specified term of 3 years, Full-time

**Reference**:100927

**Essential criteria**
- A doctorate (or will shortly satisfy the requirements of a PhD). The doctorate must be in a relevant discipline area, such as ecology, computational biology or bioinformatics. Please note: To be eligible for this role you must have no more than 3 years (full-time equivalent) of relevant postdoctoral research experience.
- Experience in analysing large, complex ecological or biodiversity datasets.
- Strong proficiency in statistical modelling, including experience with species distribution models, community ecology metrics, or similar frameworks.
- Strong programming skills in R, Python, or similar, with the ability to write reproducible, well-documented code.
- Familiarity with high-performance computing (HPC) environments for large-scale data analysis, including workload managers such as SLURM.

For full details about this role, and other criteria, please review the Position Description.

**Not sure if you meet all the criteria?**

**Setting you up for success**

**Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements**

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process. CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities. To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO.

**Inclusion and belonging**

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong. We recognise true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more. We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Gold Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

**Eligibility**

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**How to apply**

**Applications close**

5 October 2025, 11:00pm AEDT