Postdoctoral Research Fellow Computational Methods for Fluid-Granular Flows

Job No.: 690226

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 3-year fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $86195 - $116981 pa Level A (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
• Join our inclusive collaborative community
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them

The Opportunity

Join an ARC-funded research project developing numerical methods to simulate the flow of dense viscous liquids through a deformable granular mush. The project aims to improve fluid-dynamical understanding of how magmatic ore deposits form. Such deposits contain critical minerals including nickel copper cobalt and platinum-group elements that underpin the global transition to Net Zero.

You will be responsible for developing novel numerical methods to model continuum problems in a two-liquid/granular medium and for interpreting the results physically. These models will capture how a dense fluid migrates spreads and becomes trapped within a deformable yield-stress material. Working alongside a co-supervised PhD student and the wider investigator team you will build and extend simulation tools to explore droplet migration instability and gravity-driven flows within this setting. There is scope to bring your own perspective to the numerical approach and your work will feed directly into peer-reviewed publications in leading fluid mechanics journals and presentations at both specialist and general conferences.

The position is part of an interdisciplinary team spanning applied mathematics and economic geology and is based in the School of Mathematics at Monash University. You will work closely with A/Prof Anja Slim at Monash Dr Edward Hinton at the University of Melbourne and A/Prof Duncan Hewitt at the University of Cambridge. The position includes extended visits to Cambridges Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. You will also have regular opportunities to work with the projects economic geology team testing your models against real field and experimental data and seeing your results feed directly into questions about how magmatic ore deposits form and where they might be found.

This is a chance to help develop some of the first physical models of how magmatic ore deposits form. Despite their economic importance these systems remain largely unexplored from a fluid-dynamical perspective offering substantial scope for fundamental new insights.

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To Apply

Applicants should submit the following documents::

• Cover Letter (max 1.5 pages): Detail your suitability for the role and explicitly address Key Selection Criteria 3 4 and 5. (Note: Candidates lacking direct experience with criterion 5 are still encouraged to apply and may highlight equivalent relevant experience.)
• Research Statement (max 1 page): Summarize your current research achievements and future research objectives.
• Curriculum Vitae (CV): Include your academic degrees publication record contact details for three professional referees and a brief note on your fields publication conventions (e.g. author order).

Applicants nearing PhD completion are welcome to apply; any job offer will be contingent upon fulfilling all requirements for the PhD award.

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Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people culturally and linguistically diverse people people with disabilities neurodivergent people and people of all genders sexualities and age groups.

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Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role as determined by the University.

Enquiries: Associate Professor Anja Slim School of Mathematics and School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment ()

Position Description:Research Fellow

Applications Close: Monday 5 October 2026 11:55 pm AEDT

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