Postgraduate Internship Awards

Our Postgraduate Internship Awards (PIA) allow students to work with the APPN team as interns, to learn about image and data analysis while pursuing their own research with our world-class infrastructure.

This is your chance to investigate your plant science questions with the support of the highly skilled APPN team and the incredible technology and infrastructure we have available. We welcome your applications.

– Richard Dickmann, APPN Chief Executive Officer

Priority research areas include:

  • Tolerance to abiotic stress
  • Improving resource use efficiency in plants
  • Statistics and biometry
  • Application of mechatronic engineering to plant phenotyping
  • Application of image analysis techniques to understand plant form and function
  • Students proposing other topics will also be considered.

What’s included?

  • Up to $10,000 towards infrastructure use
  • Up to $1,500 towards accommodation near an APPN node (if required)
  • Up to $500 towards travel (if required)
  • A hands-on role with the APPN team – building industry contacts and learning about experiment design, uses for advanced plant phenotyping technologies, and image analysis.

How to apply

  1. APPN offers 2 PIA rounds p.a. Submission deadlines: 30 May & 30 November
  2. Postgraduate students, currently enrolled at an Australian university, are eligible to apply.
  3. Please review the PIA Conditions of Entry before you apply (this document provides contact details of the APPN Nodes that offer internships).
  4. Contact the relevant APPN Node before completing your application to develop a project plan and discuss the costs involved (Node contacts are listed on the PIA Application Form)
  5. Email your application to Kirsten O’Donnell at the APPN Head Office.