At the end of 1994, Stow returned to Australia as a Wellcome Trust Senior Medical Research Fellow to set up a cell biology laboratory[4] at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

Additionally, Stow currently serves as the Deputy Director (Research) and Group Leader at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, holding a joint appointment with the School of Biomedical Science at The University of Queensland, a role that was renewed in 2012.

Stow's academic journey at the university includes a period spanning from 2001 to 2006 when she held the position of NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (continuing), Associate Professor, and Group Leader within the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences.

In the year 2000, Stow undertook the responsibilities of Principal Research Fellow (continuing), Associate Professor, and Group Leader at the Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology (now the IMB) and the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

During the years 1994 to 1999, Stow held the position of a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow (fixed term), serving as an Associate Professor and Group Leader at the Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology (now the IMB) and the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.