Research Fellow – Physiology

Job No.: 642442

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time 

Duration: 12-month fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $72,927 – $98,975 pa Level A (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day
• Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities
• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

Research within the Department of Physiology covers a wide range of integrative, cellular and molecular physiology, with particular strengths in sensory and systems neurosciences, cardiovascular and renal physiology, and metabolic disease. It is anticipated that the Department will play an important role in providing research underpinning the new heart hospital to be built on the Clayton campus. For more information please visit our website .

The Opportunity

We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to provide a variety of high-quality research services to the Karunakaran Lab (Cardiometabolic Inflammation and Cell Death) currently based at the Department of Physiology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), Clayton campus. You will form interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers within Monash University, including the newly built Victorian Heart Hospital (opening end of 2022).

You will work to conduct ethical, innovative and internationally competitive research investigating novel mechanisms by which inflammation and cell death drives cardiometabolic diseases (e.g. obesity, atherosclerosis) and how these processes link to the circadian clock, and vice versa. You will also be involved in processing clinical samples via collaborations at the newly built Victorian Heart Hospital (opening end of 2022). The ultimate goal of this research to is identify new mechanisms and potential therapies to treat cardiometabolic diseases (e.g. atherosclerosis, diabetes and obesity).

You will focus on conducting in vitro and in vivo mouse experiments, as well as flow cytometry and ‘omics analysis. The successful applicant will be on a fellowship-track and write grant applications and high impact research papers, conduct literature reviews, supervising or co-supervising under/graduate student(s) and 1x RA.

About you:

You will have:

• A doctoral qualification in the relevant discipline (i.e., CVD, cardiometabolic disease etc) or a closely related field
• A track record of refereed research publications
• Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to manage junior staff or supervise students, and adapt to the evolving research directions
• Experience in mouse models of cardiovascular and/or metabolic diseases, and/or bioinformatics and ‘omics data  

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

This position is for 1 year, with the opportunity for renewal to 3 years.

The successful applicant will need to possess a current valid Police Check.

Your application must address the selection criteria. Please refer to “How to apply for Monash Jobs “.

We encourage applications from First Nations people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.

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Enquiries

Dr Denuja Karunakaran, Laboratory Head, Cardiometabolic Inflammation and Cell Death, +61 3 9905 2560

Position Description

 Research Fellow – Physiology

Closing Date

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 11:55pm AEDT

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