Postdoctoral, Biomedical Engineering jobs

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DIVISION OF SCIENCES | TE ROHE A AHIKĀROA
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY | TE TARI MĀTAURANGA MATŪ

Mō te tīma | About our team

The University of Otago, established in 1869, has a long and distinguished tradition of teaching and research. The Department of Chemistry at the University of Otago is the oldest chemistry department in New Zealand. It has grown to be one of the largest Departments in the Division of Sciences and contributes to various courses and programmes in Sciences and Health Sciences.

Responsibility for the Department's dual mandate of teaching and research is shared among full-time academic staff and a number of teaching and research fellows, assisted by a similar number of technical, secretarial and general staff. As such, the Department is one of the largest and most active in New Zealand, with working conditions and facilities that rival those of many overseas departments.

The role | Te mahi

The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund has awarded the Ennis group a research grant to investigate the formation and structure of mixed clathrate hydrate minerals relevant to Titan’s surface; including the study of possible astrochemical pathways toward higher-order organic molecules. This postdoctoral fellow position is to support and advance all objectives of this laboratory astrochemistry research project, including the coordination of overseas experiments with expert collaborators at ANSTO Melbourne and Sydney, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California USA and the University of Western Australia.

Key tasks of the role include:

• Contributing to the design and development of new laboratory capabilities including gas delivery manifolds, thin film deposition and thickness verification, vacuum hardware, photolysis setups.
• Carrying out the optimisation and maintenance of sample synthesis equipment, high vacuum equipment, gas handling systems and cryocooler hardware.
• Synthesis, purification and handling hazardous gaseous samples including astronomical nitriles.
• Performing data analysis including vibrational spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, X-ray and neutron diffraction crystallography. Perform supporting computations such as DFT calculations.
• Contributing toward novel experiment design.
• Liaising with international team to coordinate remote experiments and write beamline proposals.
• Assisting with the writing of scientific papers and journal articles.

Kā pūkeka me kā wheako | Your skills and experience

Pūroko | Further details

This is a full-time (1.0 FTE), fixed-term position (for 2 years), available from 1 March 2027, based in Ōtepoti, Dunedin.

The salary for this position is $92,350 per annum.

Applications from candidates with Māori and Pacific backgrounds or strong competencies in these areas are warmly encouraged.

Applications quoting reference number 2601192 will close at 11:59 PM (NZST) on Sunday, 20 September 2026.

Contact: Dr Courtney Ennis

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