Senior Research Scientist - Infectious diseases

• ​​​​​​Bring your technical expertise in infectious diseases (high risk pathogens) with focus on immunology or multi-omics to work
• Work within a supportive, rewarding and collaborative team environment
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s leading scientific research organisation

Many of CSIRO's innovations were once considered impossible. Fast WiFi, Aerogard insect repellent and the plastic Australian banknote, to name a few. Until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge. We’re recruiting inventors, innovators and change makers. Join Team CSIRO and help make the impossible possible. CSIRO’s Health and Biosecurity research programs focus on health and biosecurity preparedness and responsiveness, digital health, and health and wellbeing. The Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) helps protect Australia’s multi-billion-dollar livestock and aquaculture industries, and the general public, from emerging infectious disease threats. It is a high-containment facility designed to allow scientific research into the most dangerous infectious agents in the world.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Dangerous Pathogens team within the Health & Biosecurity (H&B) business unit, based at the ACDP contributing to our research on the high consequence pathogens (including but not limited to Nipah, Ebola or Influenza) and work in the high containment facility managing research projects and contracts in a collaborative environment with a focus on immunology, multi-omics, vaccines/therapeutics and pathogenesis models development.

If you’re experience senior research professional with expertise in virology with focus in infectious diseases and knowledge of other disciplines and independently managed research milestone and demonstrated achievement to formulate, develop and complete an approved research program along with a dynamic team, then do not hesitate to apply! CSIRO will offer you a very supporting workplace culture and provide professional support as we are strongly committed to diversity and supporting flexible working arrangements. 

The appointee must be able to meet ACDP Security Assessment and Microbiological Security Requirements for personnel working on the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) site.