Associate Professpr Phil Jobling completed a BSc (Hons) and a MSc in the Department of Zoology (University of Melbourne) focusing on comparative physiology of a range of vertebrates, and then a PhD in Physiology in the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology (University of Queensland). After an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh PA, he returned to Australia on an NHMRC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship to the Flinders University of South Australia. He then was employed on a 5-year NHMRC Project Grant studying the Autonomic control of the Female Reproductive Tract. A research theme he continues at the University of Newcastle.

Associate Professor Jobling taught his first medical student at the University of Melbourne and taught students in Medicine, Veterinarian science, Dentistry, and Science during his PhD. He also taught into the Postgraduate medical degree at Flinders University. He was recruited to the University of Newcastle in 2004 into the Discipline of Physiology teaching physiology into Medicine and Allied health a position he still holds. His research currently encompasses Female reproductive tract – pelvic pain, Cancer Neuroscience including glioblastoma and Physiological Biomarkers of health in endangered frogs. In addition to his work with the Brain Health team at HMRI. He facilitates the One Health program at the Centre for Conservation Science that looks at human health in the context of biodiversity and the species that surround us. Including emerging fungal and viral pathogens threats linked to climate change.