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Role highlights
- Pioneer technologies that improve bioactive therapeutic delivery
- Join an innovative team in Livestock & Aquaculture
- Launch your career at CSIRO – Australia’s National Science Agency!
About CSIRO
As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.
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The opportunity
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system, wherever they pursue their subsequent careers.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and the demand for sustainable production systems are driving urgent global need for smarter, non-antibiotic interventions in animal production. While many next-generation therapeutic strategies, such as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), probiotics, bacteriophages, and immune modulators, show promise, their effectiveness is often limited by challenges such as poor stability during feed processing, low stability in water, rapid degradation in the gastrointestinal tract, or limited bioavailability at target tissues.
The successful candidate will address these barriers by developing oral delivery platforms for fragile therapeutics and functional compounds in feed. Leveraging CSIRO’s unique integration of feed manufacturing, materials science, aquaculture nutrition and health, this fellowship will pioneer encapsulation and smart carrier technologies that improve the stability, precision, and efficacy of bioactive delivery in monogastric animals, with a focus on aquaculture species. A key component of the project will be to explore the use of low-cost, sustainable materials such as biochar and agricultural by-products, including the valorisation of agricultural waste streams through dry fractionation, as carrier matrices for oral delivery platforms.