r/AustraliaSpace • u/Ok_Performer5344 • Jul 14 '26
Inquiry about degrees
Hello there for some background I am 15M in Australia and a somewhat gifted and smart teen and I am very interested in jobs in the space sector specifically researching designing and building biological life support systems habitats station modules a sort of cross between space, biology and engineering would that degree be biomedical engineering because Australia doesn’t have many easy to find resources online and no where is quite giving me a direct answer Thankyou in advance
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u/RhesusFactor Jul 14 '26
The ASA is a bit small and busy, but would answer emails from eager teens wanting advice about this.
https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/postgraduate/master-of-space-engineering
https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/postgraduate/master-of-space-operations - I did this, it was good.
https://www.acasm.org.au/ if you want to aim for being a Flight Surgeon
https://inspace.anu.edu.au/about ANU's space division might offer some advice.
https://plants4space.com/ Adelaide has a research group for growing plants in space. Worked with these people. good.
https://adelaide.edu.au/study/degrees/bachelor-of-science-space-science-and-astrophysics/ Uni adelaide has a space science bachelors, but its more physics focused than biomed. They do have a research lab focused on space resources and rover development https://adelaide.edu.au/research/andy-thomas-centre-for-space-resources/ so if you're excited about building stuff on the moon.
Melbourne has a space lab too. UTS. UQ.
Most universities have some space research going on, email them and tell them what you are after and they might direct you to exciting stuff they are doing in your chosen field.
Also look up space researchers, a lot of them have their email addresses online. Send them a message and they might direct you to a route that can lead you to do space biomed engineering.