CSIRO’s Postgraduate Top-Up Scholarship Program provides opportunities in science and engineering for outstanding graduates at Australian tertiary institutions.
Each year, the Program supports postgraduate scholarships for students to work on a project relevant to one of several priority research areas.
Students are co-supervised by researchers in an Australian university and CSIRO.
Postgraduate Top-Up Scholarships are available to PhD students who have gained (or are expected to gain) first or upper second-class honours or equivalent in relevant research areas.
Students must also expect to receive a Research Training Program scholarship (RTP) or equivalent scholarship commencing in the year of the CSIRO scholarship (late 2023 or early 2024).
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
Study area: Chemistry, Computer Science & Information Technology, Engineering, Environmental & Biological Science, Maths, Physics
Student type: Domestic students
Student status: Future Students
Application process
Students must apply via the CSIRO Careers webpage - Studentships and Scholarships.
Eligibility requirements
Relevant projects
This package is available only to domestic candidates who complete research on specific topics.
This year, the topics that are available either anywhere in Australia or specifically in Sydney appear below:
- Assessing bushfire risk from space
- Modelling Antimicrobial Resistance under Climate Change
- How important are carp in contemporary food webs of the Murray Darling Basin
- Physics-Based Models for Space Weather Prediction
Other projects are available to candidates who are willing to shift to other cities in Australia.