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The Opportunity
As the successful candidate you will be leading a team that is responsible for developing and validating next generation high-throughput phenotyping tools for breeding, broad-acre farming and horticultural crop research.
Plant phenotyping is a rapidly emerging research area concerned with quantitative measurement of the structural and functional properties of plants. It is motivated by concerns over global food security and the need to double food production by 2050. As part of this role you will be allocated 80% to the High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre (HRPPC), a world-class plant analysis facility located at CSIRO Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park in Canberra. The centre which is part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Network for Australia provides a set of tools for Australian and International Plant Scientists to explore plant gene function and develop higher-yielding crops better suited to current and future environmental challenges. The centre exploits recent advances in robotics, imaging and computing to enable sensitive, high throughput analyses to be made of plant growth and function.
Your duties will include
Location: Black Mountain, ACT
Salary: $97,000 to $105,000 plus up to 15.4% Superannuation
Tenure: Indefinite
Reference: 59810
To be successful you will need
Essential Criteria:
Special Requirement:
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About CSIRO
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Applications Close
Tuesday 28 May 2019
We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date