Job No.: 615278

Location: Monash Medical Centre

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 3-year fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $69,401 - $94,190 pa Level A / $99,147 - $117,738 pa Level B (plus 9.5% employer superannuation)

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Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

An exciting opportunity exists for a Research Fellow to join the Department of Psychiatry within the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health. The position is in the field of behavioural neuroscience. The focus of the position will be to manage the breeding and behavioural and electrophysiological characterization of two new strains of mice.

To be appointable into this position you must hold a doctoral qualification in the relevant discipline or a closely related field and possess Electrophysiology experience in mice - specifically LFP recordings, experience with behavioural testing of mice in a range of paradigms, experience with touchscreen testing units is particularly advantageous and experience with stereotaxic surgeries in mice and experience in breeding and maintaining mouse colonies.

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

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Enquiries

Dr Rachel Hill, Head, Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory - Rachel.hill@monash.edu

Position Description

Level A - Research Fellow - Behavioural Neuroscience / Electrophysiology

Level B - Research Fellow - Behavioural Neuroscience / Electrophysiology

Closing Date

Thursday 4 March 2021, 11:55pm AEDT

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