Congratulations to Erica Plummer and Sabrina Salberg on Bridging Postdoctoral Fellowships

L-R: Dr Erica Plummer and Ms Sabrina Salberg

Congratulations to Dr Erica Plummer and Ms Sabrina Salberg who have been awarded Bridging Postdoctoral Fellowships. It was a very competitive round.

The Bridging Postdoctoral Fellowships (BPF) support the career development of promising newly-qualified postdoctoral researchers and final year PhD students. They are intended to provide initial support for recent PhD graduates and final year PhD students while they apply for externally-funded fellowships.

Ms Sabrina Salberg is a PhD student who started her research project in 2020. She is supervised by Professor Richelle Mychasiuk in the Department of Neuroscience. Her research focuses on chronic pain, as well as traumatic brain injury. See a 2021 blog story featuring her research.

Dr Erica Plummer completed her PhD in 2021, investigating the pathogenesis of bacterial vaginosis. Her supervisor was Dr Lenka Vodstrcil. She is currently a research fellow at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre.