Lecturer or Senior Lecturer - One Health Microbiology

The position is based at UNSW in Sydney, Australia.

About the role

The Lecturer (Level B) / Senior Lecturer (Level C) is expected to carry out activities to develop their scholarly research and professional activities both nationally and internationally and to contribute significantly to achieving the teaching and service missions of the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences and the Faculty of Science at UNSW. This role is required to establish a distinctive research and teaching program in One Health microbiology, with a clear emphasis on environmental and planetary health. The Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer will draw on field, experimental, culture-based, genomic, multi-omic, computational, modelling or engineering approaches as appropriate to develop an independent research platform to study microbiomes. This role will also contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in microbiology and related disciplines and help renew the curriculum through research-led education.

Responsibilities

• Establish internationally competitive research in environmental One Health microbiology, producing high-quality research outputs and competitive grant applications.
• Develop new understanding of microbiome connectivity across environmental, plant, animal-associated systems, with environmental and planetary health as the primary focus.
• Collaborate across disciplines, Schools and Faculties, and develop productive partnerships with government, industry, environmental managers, agriculture, research organisations, communities and other research end-users.
• Contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in microbiology, microbial ecology, environmental biotechnology, genomics, One Health, planetary health or related areas.
• Develop research-led learning activities and resources and contribute to curriculum innovation, including the potential development and coordination of a 'Frontiers in Microbiology' course.
• Mentor and guide students and colleagues, develop the next generation of academics through involvement in supervision of HDRs