Careers

The EMU/AKCMM regularly offers attractive career opportunities. For over 50 years, our staff and students have helped to cultivate a leading national and international reputation for excellence in microscopy and microanalysis and have developed a culture in which service and training are just as important as the outstanding research results that we are achieving.

Academic, research and general staff positions

Scanning Electron Microscopist

Reference No. 601/1009
Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
Closing date: 9 November 2009

For the position description and for information on how to apply please go to the SydneyRecruitment website.

Post-doctoral Research Opportunities

Nanotube Nanothermometers – Synthesis, Characterisation and Application
Carbon nanotubes, discovered in the early '90s, are tiny, hollow cylindrical structures made of carbon molecules that are typically known for their strength and unique electrical properties. A carbon nanotube (CNT) filled with a low-melting-point metal such as gallium (Ga) creates a nanothermometer that allows temperature measurement at the nanometre scale. Though proven to work in simple systems, we need to fully develop this new nanotechnology and its method of implementation within a complex engineering environment to make nanothermometers a practical and important measurement tool. Funding from ARC has been approved recently for this ambitious program.

An exciting project on nanotube nanothermometers is available for an outstanding student considering a PhD in science. It will provide unique opportunities to develop skills in transmission electron microscopy with a focus on characterisation of the nanothermometers and the oxidation behaviour of Ga confined in nanotubes. The project offers the chance to work in a multidisciplinary research team and make use of the world-class research facilities of the Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis at the University of Sydney.

We are interested in talking to students who have, or will have in the next 12 months, an Honours 1 or 2A in Physics, Materials Science/Engineering or Nanoscience/Nanotechnology, or who have a Masters degree in one of these areas. To discuss the project or for further information, please contact , ph. 02 9351 7535.

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

See Available Research Projects section.
Applicants also please refer to the University’s Research Office website.