CSIRO Postgraduate Scholarship Program

The CSIRO Postgraduate Scholarship Program places emphasis on ten areas of science that have high priority within CSIRO. CSIRO will offer honours scholarships and arrange jointly supervised PhD programs in these 10 areas. There are five groups of Divisions within CSIRO and each group, under the leadership of a Group Executive, nominated two areas of research they regarded to be the areas in which they would like to join universities in supervision of both honours and PhD students (see below).

Opportunity

For students who are excited by the prospect of being involved in one of the ten areas and, secondly, that
For CSIRO and university scientists who jointly decide to attempt to gain support either for Honours students or PhD Scholars in these areas.

Honours and PhD scholarships will be awarded to projects in the ten priority areas in 2010-11 allowing continuity from Honours to PhD where appropriate. A further ten research areas will be chosen in future years.

Priority areas

Please note: The priority areas in which scholarships will be available may change from year to year.

CSIRO groups of Divisions and their priority areas for the Honours and PhD Scholarships are:

Group	Priority Research Areas	CSIRO Contact for information
Agribusiness	Plant development	Frank Gubler 02 6246 5269 Frank.Gubler@csiro.au Simon Robinson 08 8303 8611 Simon.Robinson@csiro.au Lynne McIntyre 07 3214 2321 Lynne.McIntyre@csiro.au
Agribusiness	Metabolomics	Mary Ann Augustin 03 9731 3486 Maryann.Augustin@csiro.au John Oakeshott 02 6246 4157 John.Oakeshott@csiro.au
Energy	Renewable energy technologies	David Cornforth 02 4960 5199 David.Cornforth@csiro.au
Energy	Carbon capture and storage	Storage Neil Sherwood 02 9490 8976 Neil.Sherwood@csiro.au Capture Paul Feron 02 4960 6022 Paul.Feron@csiro.au
Environment	Climate predications via new ocean observing system technology	Trevor McDougall 03 6232 5250 Trevor.McDougall@csiro.au
Environment	Human impacts on marine ecosystems	Beth Fulton 03 6232 5018 Beth.Fulton@csiro.au Campbell Davies 03 6342 5044 Campbell.Davies@csiro.au
Information Sciences	Sensor and sensor networks	Michael Bruenig 07 3327 4431 Michael.Bruenig@csiro.au
Information Sciences	Astronomy and space science	Robert Braun 02 9372 4271 Robert.Braun@csiro.au
Manufacturing, Materials and Minerals	Modelling of droplet-droplet coalescence	Phil Schwarz 03 9545 8568 Phil.Schwarz@csiro.au William Yang 03 9545 8722 William.Yang@csiro.au
Manufacturing, Materials and Minerals	Adaptive and responsive advanced materials	Ivan Cole 03 9545 2054 Ivan.Cole@csiro.au Geoff Naylor 03 5426 4046 Geoff.Naylor@csiro.au Cathy Foley 02 9413 7413 Cathy.Foley@csiro.au Scott Furman 03 9545 2787 Scott.Furman@csiro.au Calum Drummond 03 9545 2050 Calum.Drummond@csiro.au

Value

CSIRO will provide a $5000 grant for the Honours Scholarships. The funds will be made available as a grant from CSIRO to the university. Joint supervision for both Honours and PhD Scholarships is expected but where geography might present some difficulties leaders of the CSIRO groups and the university groups can discuss sensible arrangements.

In the case of the PhD Scholarships, the CSIRO prefers to offer a $7000pa topup to an APA or other scholarship and provide $10000pa for operational costs of the research. The operational funds will be provided under the care of the CSIRO Division involved.

How to apply

Prospective students may apply by completing the application form available under the relevant research area on CSIRO Positions Vacant. See CSIRO career options for guidance.

When completing the application form, students are asked to:

respond to selection criteria
provide academic referees
have the form endorsed by both the university and CSIRO supervisors.

All applicants and universities will be advised of the outcomes of the application process during the third week of December.

Closing date

30 November (offered annually).

Links

Scholarships calendar

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