Four (4) PhD Positions, Queensland Alliance of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia (2016)

Queensland Alliance of Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) is a new research centre, funded by Queensland Health and UQ that is committed to establishing and maintaining multidisciplinary research expertise across a range of environment health sciences. These include environmental aspects of toxicology, human health epidemiology, microbiology, health risk assessment, health risk communication, identification and analysis of emerging environmental health risks, and state­of­the art monitoring and analytical techniques, methodologies and technologies for environmental hazards and exposures. The Faculty is strongly committed to the advancement of quality inter­professional education and genuine inter­disciplinary research in the health sciences. Further information is available at www.health.uq.edu.au/habs. QAEHS will work closely with Queensland Health to develop its research directions, and to provide expert opinion and advice, as well as relevant training for Queensland Health staff. In addition, staff will pursue research excellence through competitively funded research and government or private consultancies. Supervision of research students and some coursework teaching are other core components of QAEHS' activities.

The role
Four PhD opportunities are available in the QAEHS Exposure Monitoring Team for students with Honours/Masters degrees in fields relating to analytical chemistry or environmental toxicology. The research will be supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project titled "Estimating per capita use and release of chemicals through systematic collection and analysis of wastewater treatment plant influent, effluent and biosolids".

There are opportunities to work with large population-based samples and data sets collected during the 2016 Australian Census, preparare and analyse samples, design and construct experiments, evaluate, interpret and publish results, and to supervise honours and masters students.

The PhD candidate will have an Honours or Masters degree, or equivalent, in Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science or Environmental Toxicology, or a relevant discipline.

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