Postdoctoral Fellowship

CSIRO

At CSIRO, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology.

Over nearly a century, we've been improving the lives of people everywhere with our science. We’ve advanced Australia with a range of inventions and innovations that have had significant positive impact on the lives of people around the world, like fast WiFi, polymer banknotes, the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet and Aerogard.

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.     The Australian e-health research centre (AEHRC) is CSIRO’s digital health research unit delivering innovation to the health system. It is the largest eHealth research group in Australia with more than 100 research scientists working with clinicians and industry to identify the clinical and/or health challenges. AEHRC is worldwide and unique in covering the full value chain from basic science through to clinical application and assessing their impacts on Australian and international health systems.    Within the AEHRC, the charter of the Transformational Bioinformatics Group is to develop novel bioinformatics solutions for research and industry using the latest developments in cloud and BigData infrastructure.    The CERC Fellow will join AEHRC and collaborate closely with external collaborators (including the NSW Health Pathology and commercial entities) to innovate and evaluate new technology (e.g., genomic sequencing) for the detection of more preventable childhood diseases and enable the rapid addition of new diseases in newborn and neonatal screening programs. However, the inclusion of genetic information, the most personally identifiable information, necessitates robust privacy and security solutions and innovative approaches to informed consent. Therefore, the CERC Fellow will aid in developing novel approaches for dynamic consent and building engineering solutions around this, among other aspects of genome informatics for the research program. 

• 🧩 Data Cleaning and Preparation
  

  Extract and clean data ready to use in analysis or to users

• 📶 Data Analysis and Reporting
  

  Analyze data to discover and communicate insights, and offer concrete recommendations for key stakeholders to make critical decisions

• 📊 Data Management and Visualization
  

  Create and maintain the organization’s Business Intelligence tools, and present complex data in simple, visual ways for key stakeholders

• 🤓 Learning agility
  

  Identifies and applies strategies to enhance reception, retention and use of newly acquired information, skills, and abilities

• 🧮 Numerical problem solving
  

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

• 🔍 Attention to detail
  

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables