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A life-long fascination in sciences provided me with the inspiration to graduate in exercise physiology (University of Sherbrooke, Canada, 2004), complete a PhD in physiology/biophysics (University of Sherbrooke, 2009) and continue in my current role as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBMS) of The University of Queensland. I am a physiologist first and foremost with a particular interest in understanding how skeletal muscle cell normally functions so as to try and elucidate what changes or factors contribute to various forms of muscle weakness with ageing, inactivity or various chronic diseases.

During my previous postdoctoral appointment at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 2010-2017), I have gained considerable experience using the "mechanically skinned muscle fibre" technique in animal muscle. Importantly, I have developed this technique for the first time in human muscle which allows the exciting opportunity to investigate cellular mechanisms of muscle weakness in different clinical population. This is vitally important since most of our existing knowledge on muscle function comes from studies on muscles obtained from animal models. This technical breakthrough has been recognized by editorials of different leading scientific journals in the field of Physiology. I’m now a world recognized expert of this technique which has immense potential for examining any number of physiological questions and even allows for biochemical analyses of any protein of interest in the same cell.

Dr Julian Lamont’s research interests include Political philosophy and economics, metaphysics, applied ethics, business and professional ethics, and bioethics.

He teaches in the areas of the Introduction to Social, Political and Legal Philosophy; Crime and Punishment: Issues in Legal Philosophy; Social and Economic Justice; Business and Professional Ethics; Political Philosophy.

Robyn Lamont is a post doctoral research fellow and physiotherapist researching the assessment and physiotherapy management of people with neurological conditions including people with Parkinson's disease. Robyn's current research focuses on the assessment of community ambulation and participation in people with Parkinson's disease and the factors associated with community ambulation ability and disability in this population.

Dr James A. T. Lancaster is an intellectual historian who received his PhD from the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is presently Lecturer in Studies in Western Religious Traditions in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, as well as the Editor (special issues) of Intellectual History Review. Previously, he was a UQ Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. As a member of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Francis Bacon edition, he has published widely on the philosophical and religious thought of Francis Bacon. His research and teaching interests and experience include the history of science and religion, the history of atheism and irreligion in the early modern period, and the history of the psychology of religion.

Dr Dillon Landi is a Lecturer in Health, Wellbeing and Education in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. His research and teaching focuses on equity, diversity and inclusion within sport, health and physical education. He is internationally recognised for his contributions to these areas and has published extensively in leading journals and edited volumes across health, wellbeing, sport and education. His research has been cited in and informed policy documents, government reports and national position statements in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Dillon's research has been recognised and won major awards from prestigious organisations such as the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the British Educational Research Association (BERA), the Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d'Éducation Physique (AIESEP) and SHAPE America. He has also co-edited three Special Issues in high-impact journals on topics that reflect his commitment to inclusive scholarship: (a) Equity and Diversity in Health, Physical Activity and Education; (b) LGBTQIA+ Research in Physical Education; and (c) LGBTQIA+ Research in Sport, Human Movement and Education.

At the University of Queensland, Dillon teaches courses related to health and wellbeing, research methods and education. He is also actively engaged in mentoring students and early-career researchers in research on equity, diversity and inclusion in health, sport and education. He holds a PhD from the University of Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand) and two postgraduate degrees from Columbia University (New York, USA). Prior to joining UQ, he held academic appointments at the University of Auckland, Towson University (Maryland, USA), and the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). He currently serves as Managing Editor of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Q1, Taylor & Francis) and sits on the editorial board of Sport, Education and Society (Q1, Taylor & Francis).

A/Prof Landsberg's undergraudate and Honours studies, majoring in Chemistry, were completed at Central Queensland University and the CSIRO (JM Rendel laboratories) before he moved to the University of Queensland to study a PhD in Biochemistry (awarded 2003). He then moved to a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, spending time as a Visiting Scientist at Harvard Medical School (2008) and securing promotion to Senior Research Officer upon his return to IMB in 2009. He additioanlly spent time as a Visiting Scientist at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in 2010 and 2011.

In 2016, he joined UQ's School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences as a Group Leader in Cryo-EM and Macromolecular Structure and Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry and Biophysics, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. He has secured >$13.5M in competitive research funding since 2012, including major grants from the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council. He his research has been presented at over 70 national and international conferences and research institutions.

Dr David Lange joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland in early 2018. Originally from the the UK, he has a Masters and a PhD, both from the University of Edinburgh. Following completion of his studies, he spent a number of years working in the UK developing fire safety strategies for a range of premises including laboratory and commercial facilities, and residential buildings; as well as conducting fire risk assessments and risk engineering projects in a range of industrail areas including HPR facilities. He then spent 6 years working as a senior research scientist for SP / RISE in Sweden, conducting research in a range of different areas such as fire resistance, facade fire safety, crisis management and infrastructure resilience. His work at the University of Queensland covers a broad range of areas related to fire safety.

David is a Registered Professional Engineering in Queensland (RPEQ), a registered engineer in New South Wales, as well as a Chartered Engineer (CPEng) at the member grade of Fellow with Engineers Australia (FIEAust). He is on the National Engineers Register (NER) in Australia and is an APEC Engineer and an International Professional Engineering registered in Australia (IntPE). He is also a member of the SFPE.

His current research projects are in the areas of:

• Fire safety of timber buildings
• Design of buildings for vertical fire spread
• Lithium Ion Battery fire safety
• Structural fire engineering
• Fire engineering design
• Application and development of risk analysis techniques in fire safety engineering

Zannie Langford is an economist and social scientist. She has undertaken a range of applied research projects focusing on land tenure, global value chains, smallholder agribusiness and rural development financing in Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific. Her books include 'Assembling Financialisation: Local actors and the making of agricultural investment' (Berghahn books) and 'Globalisation and livelihood transformations in the Indonesian seaweed industry' (Routledge).

Erika is a demographer and social epidemiologist experienced in research and evaluation in the health and social services sector. Her experience bridges a number of health settings including primary health care, rural and regional health, community-controlled organisations, addiction services, and social enterprises. Erika is experienced in designing and leading strategic reviews, research projects, and evidence synthesis to inform policy development and reform. Her experience includes the development and evaluation of health system indicators; mapping, modelling, and simulating health systems; the evaluation and synthesis of health measures and interventions; the conceptualisation, development and operationalisation of health and service measures; and the analysis of large administrative and service data sets.

Erika is an English Australian who has worked on Indigenous-led projects relating to health, education, community development and systems integration. These include evaluations of government support services for Indigenous students, capacity building programs for staff and schools working with Indigenous students, the suitability of administrative data for Indigenous research, and the provision of integrated team care by a primary health network. She has published on the validity of Western health measures for Indigenous youth, health screening in primary health settings, the integration of health services, and a range of systematic reviews relating to health and education.

Gayan Lankeshwara is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Power, Energy and Control Engineering research group at The University of Queensland, Australia. He received the B.Sc.Eng. (Hons.) and M.Sc.Eng. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2016 and 2021, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in 2023. His research interests include grid integration of distributed energy resources, active distribution network management and machine learning applications in power systems.

Associate Professor Nina Lansbury (also published as Nina Hall) is an environmental public health research and teaching academic at The University of Queensland’s School of Public Health. Her current research at UQ examines environmental health aspects that support the health and wellbeing of remote Indigenous community residents on both mainland Australia and in the Torres Strait in terms of housing, water and sanitation, and women's health. She also investigates the impacts of climate change on human health, and this involved a role as Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6 WG II). Within the research sector, she was previously a senior research scientist at CSIRO, manager of the Sustainable Water program at The University of Queensland, and senior research consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS. Within the non-government sector, she was previously the director of the Climate Action Network Australia and research coordinator at the Mineral Policy Institute.

Conservation, biology and ecology of large marine vertebrates

Current research interests:

• Population ecology of dugongs and coastal dolphins
• Population genetics of dugongs
• Physiology, functional morphology and ecology of dugongs
• Health assessment of inshore marine mammals, particularly dugongs