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August 20, 2025

**Job Description**
This Postdoc position involves exploring the geochemical behaviour of critical metals in the Earth’s crust, investigating variables such as composition, temperature, pressure, and oxygen fugacity. The primary focus is to understand how these critical metals are mobilised and concentrated to form ore-bodies, utilising world-leading experimental and analytical facilities at the Research School of Earth Sciences (ANU) and the Australian Synchrotron.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Demonstrated record of academic excellence in research (publications, funding, esteem measures)
• Self-motivated
• Experience in solid media high pressure experimental petrology
• Experience with a range of microbeam techniques for characterisation and quantitative analysis of experimental run products
• Familiarity with key concepts regarding the geology and formation of critical minerals deposits

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Earth Sciences
• Geochemistry
• Petrology
• Mineralogy
• Geosciences

**Experience**
Other:
• Early career geoscientist

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Experience
Other: • Early career geoscientist
Work Level
Postdoc
Employment Type
Full-time, Research Job, Temporary
Salary
Annual Salary: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuation Position Classification: Academic Level B Benefits: 17% superannuation
Valid Until
September 16, 2025
Details
Full-time / Temporary Duration: up to 3 years
School / Department / Center / Lab
• Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES) • Experimental Petrology group • ANU College of Science and Medicine (CoSM)
Supervisor(s)
Greg Yaxley Andrew Berry
Supervisor Email
greg.yaxley@anu.edu.au andrew.berry@anu.edu.au indigenous.employment@anu.edu.au
Australian National University
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