Senior Research Associate - Materials Science and Engineering

About the role

This job is based in Australia at one of Australia’s leading research & teaching universities, offering a vibrant campus life with a strong sense of community and inclusion. Enjoy a career that makes a difference by collaborating and learning from the best. At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work. The School of Materials Science and Engineering is one of the top-ranked Materials programs in the Asia‑Pacific region and is strongly positioned in every facet of materials science and engineering. It offers undergraduate programs in Materials Science and Engineering (Honours), as well as a number of combined degree programs with Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Commerce. The Senior Research Associate is expected to carry out independent and/or team research under the broad scope of advanced materials and manufacturing, with a specific focus in, but not limited to, physical properties characterisations of functional materials, advanced material fabrications with solid state reaction, vacuum‑depositions, and printing technologies. The position will focus on developing next‑generation advanced high‑throughput fabrications of multifunctional materials for electronic, energy harvesting, catalytic and many other applications.

Responsibilities

• Engage in individual and/or collaborative research in a manner consistent with disciplinary practice.
• Create scholarly impact in the discipline, which is recognised by peers in the advancement of disciplinary knowledge.
• Conduct research/scholarly activities under limited supervision, either independently or as a member of a team (as per the norms of the discipline).
• Establish a personal research portfolio and start developing independent research proposals.
• Contribute to the development of applications for competitive funding under the guidance of senior colleagues.
• Participate as co‑investigator or chief investigator in competitive grant applications or show evidence of active participation in research collaborations funded by competitive grants.
• Design research projects.
• Mentor and guide students and colleagues and develop the next generation of academics through involvement in supervision of HDRs (as per the norms of the discipline).
• Manage UNSW key laboratory, user training and create an effective system‑based schedule to ensure efficient usage for the day‑to‑day activities of printing equipment. The activities in laboratory management include to create and update safety work procedures, Risk Management Forms and managing relevant safety protocols in the laboratories.
• Conduct all required monitoring, maintenance, and calibration to ensure functioning of equipment and facilities.
• Establish partnerships with the leading manufacturing companies.
• Strengthen collaborations with other research organisations.
• Align with and actively demonstrate the Code of Conduct and Values.
• Cooperate with all health and safety policies and procedures of the School and University and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the health and safety of yourself or others.

Requirements

• PhD in Materials Science and Engineering or related discipline, and/or relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated experience in managing and operating key laboratory infrastructures for material research, such as physical and magnetic property measurement systems, thin‑film fabrications, solid