Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Behavioural Neuroscience

Job No.: 691914

Location: Alfred campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 12 month fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $83,280 - $113,025 pa HEW A (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
• Join our inclusive, collaborative community
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them

The Opportunity

The Department of Neuroscience has an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Join a cutting-edge NHMRC-funded translational research program investigating the neurobiology of impulsive behaviour and its relevance to addiction and psychiatric disorders. The role offers the opportunity to work within a growing and highly collaborative team, contributing to multidisciplinary preclinical studies that combine behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging and molecular approaches to understand how glial and neuronal interactions shape impulsive behaviour.

As the successful candidate, you will take a key role in the coordination and delivery of in vivo rodent studies, with responsibilities spanning behavioural testing, surgical procedures, tissue collection and downstream analyses. You will help implement, optimise and refine experimental techniques across the program, with additional scope to contribute to advanced neuroimaging and single-cell transcriptomic studies. This role is well suited to a versatile and motivated early-career researcher looking to build broad expertise, contribute to high-quality research outputs, and develop independence within a supportive environment.

About you

You will hold a PhD in neuroscience or a closely related discipline, with experience in rodent in vivo research and a strong interest in behavioural neuroscience. You will be organised, motivated and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team, with evidence of an emerging research profile, including peer-reviewed publications. Experience in rodent behavioural assays, surgical procedures, tissue processing, histology, microscopy, neuroimaging, fibre photometry or transcriptomic methods is advantageous, but not essential.

About Monash University

At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.

We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.

Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.

In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.

Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities. 

Learn more about Monash.

Today, we have the momentum to create the future we need for generations to come. Accelerate your change here. 

Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

To Apply

For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

Enquiries: Dr Bianca Jupp, Head, Maladaptive Motivated Behaviour Laboratory, Email: bianca.jupp@monash.edu, 

Position Description: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Applications Close: Sunday 12 June 2026, 11:55pm AEST