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Yayong Li has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the supervision of Dr. Nan at The University of Queensland, where his research focuses on graph representation learning, PIML, and AI for agriculture. He specializes in machine-learning methodologies for dynamic and weakly supervised settings, such as incremental learning, few-shot learning, and learning under label noise.

Zhiqi Liang is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland. She teaches on the Master of Physiotherapy (Musculoskeletal) Program and maintains a clinical role at the Headache Clinic in the University of Queensland. Her research is on neck pain and headache, especially migraine, exploring mechanisms of neck pain in headache and treatment directions, including patient preferences, for individualised management. In 2024, she was awarded the David Lamb Award by the International Federation of Manual and Musculoskeletal Physical Therapists Incorporated (IFOMPT) for high quality research that has made an impact to musculoskeletal physiotherapy internationally. Zhiqi has been a musculoskeletal physiotherapist for more than 15 years and her clinical expertise is recognised by Fellowship within the Australian College of Physiotherapists, where she has been actively involved as an examiner and facilitator for the Specialisation Training Program and currently serves on the Board of Censors.

My research focuses on liver biology and pharmacology and I am a research team leader of the joint liver cancer research program of Frazer Institute and Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation from 2019. My long-term goal is to direct a research group exploring strategies to improve liver cancer outcomes in patients, working closely with clinicians to enable bench-to-bedside translation.

Jacki Liddle is a research fellow and occupational therapist researching quality of life, participation and life transitions. She uses innovative technology, along with qualitative and quantitative research methods to investigate the needs and experiences of people living with neurological conditions (dementia, Parkinson's disease, stroke), older people and their caregivers. She has worked with a multi-disciplinary team co-designing technology with people living with dementia and their care partners to support communication. Currently, she is in a conjoint position with Princess Alexandra Hospital, supporting the development, conduct and application of research that improves outcomes for patients.

She has also been involved in developing technology to measure outcomes including lifespace, time use, and activity and role participation to help monitor and improve community outcomes. Dr Liddle's PhD focused on researching the experiences related to retirement from driving for older people, which led to the development of the CarFreeMe program to improve outcomes related to driving cessation. Versions of the program for older drivers, people living with dementia and people with traumatic brain injury have been developed and trialled.

Peter Liesch is Professor of International Business at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia. He is Discipline Leader of the International Business Group in the UQ Business School. His Ph.D in Economics on the topic of Government-Mandated Countertrade was awarded by The University of Queensland. His research interests are firm internationalization and international business operations in their entirety. He previously held the position of Professor and Head of the School of Management and occasional Acting Dean and Associate Academic Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Law, The University of Tasmania. At The University of Queensland, he championed the formation of the UQ Business School in the early 2000s. He has been a Vice-President (Administration) of the AIB. He is a Fellow of the AIB and an Advisory Board Member of the AIB Research Methods-Shared Interest Group, Professional Member of the Australian Economic Society Queensland branch, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Managers and Leaders.

His publications appear in the international business suite of journals, the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Management Studies, and others. He was awarded a Fiftieth Anniversary Silver Medal for publications in the Journal of International Business Studies in 2019. He serves as an Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, and has been a Senior Editor at the Journal of World Business and the Australian Journal of Management. He has co-edited Special Issues with the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review and the Journal of Business Research.

Peter co-authored the textbooks, Dowling, P., Liesch, P.W., Gray, S. and C.W.L. Hill. (2009). International Business, Asia-Pacific Edition, McGraw-Hill, Sydney; and Hill, C.W.L., Hult, T., Wickramasekera, R., Liesch, P.W. and K. Mackenzie. (2017). Global Business: Asia-Pacific Perspective. McGraw-Hill, New York. He was an early adopter of the AIB 39 Country Initiative with a container of textbooks delivered to Riara University, Kenya, 2016, from the UQ Business School. He was seconded to The University of the South Pacific in the early 1980s, in Western Samoa and Fiji, applying his early education in agricultural economics, which he also put to use on his own farm at the time. He has held three Australian Research Council Grants with co-researchers, Institutional logics in organisations: The interplay between managerial and professional logics in hospitals (2009–2015) ARC Linkage Projects; Through the eyes of the Chinese: Attitudes to and opinions of Australia and their influence on Sino-Australian business exchange (2007–2010) ARC Linkage Projects; and A Study of Dynamic Capabilities in Australian and US Born Global Firms (2005–2007) ARC Discovery Projects. He is a partner in a AUD7 million Australian Strategic University Reform Fund Grant in Agri-Food Innovation in Australia, recently (2021) awarded to The University of Queensland, researching agri-food global value chains for Australian firm participation.

Dr. Lieske’s overarching research theme is spatial decision support. Topics include city analytics, the costs of sprawl, planning support system theory and implementation as well as regional environmental change. Additional areas of expertise include the effective use of geographic visualisation as a communication and decision support tool.

Rain Liivoja is a Professor and Deputy Dean (Research) at the University of Queensland Law School. He also holds the title of Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki, where he is affiliated with the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights.

Rain's research focuses on the legal challenges associated with military applications of science and technology. His broader research and teaching interest include general international law, the law of armed conflict and human rights law. He is the author of Criminal Jurisdiction over Armed Forces Abroad (Cambridge University Press 2017), and a co-editor of several books, including Autonomous Cyber Capabilities under International Law (NATO CCDCOE 2021) and the Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict (Routledge 2016).

Rain is a Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security, and the General Editor of its Information Portal on the Legal Review of Weapons. Rain is also Vice President (Australia) of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, and Deputy Chair of the Queensland Division Council of the Australian Red Cross.

Before joining the University of Queensland, Rain held academic appointments at the Universities of Melbourne, Helsinki and Tartu. He has been a Visiting Legal Fellow at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and a Senior Fellow with the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has also been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University, the University of Oxford and the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, as well as a visiting lecturer at the Estonian Military Academy and the Riga Graduate School of Law.

Rain holds an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Tartu, and a masters and a doctorate in public international law from the University of Helsinki. He completed a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching at the University of Melbourne. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Emeritus Professor Ian Lilley FSA FAHA (BA Hons, MA Qld, PhD ANU) is an internationally-renowned leader in archaeology and heritage across Australasia, the Asia-Pacific and globally. He is based in the UQ School of Social Science, to where he moved in retirement in 2019 after 25 years leading the academic program in UQ's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSISU). From 2015, he was also the invited inaugural Willem Willems Chair for Contemporary Issues in Archaeological Heritage Management at Leiden University in the Netherlands, from which he retired at the end of 2022. Leiden is continental Europe's leading university in archaeology and among the global Top 10 in the discipline.

Ian has an exceptional research record and remains research active. He is currently a CI on a $2M NHMRC Medical Research Future Fund grant concerning the mental health impacts of climate change damage to heritage as well as a member of the Policy Working Group on a $35M ARC Centre of Excellence on Transforming Human Origins Research. In addition, he is an Advisor to the Centre for Global Heritage and Development based in Leiden's Faculty of Archaeology and an Honorary Professor in the Centre for Heritage and Culture within the Institute for Community and Regional Development at the University of Southern Queensland. Ian has supervised 20 PhD and MPhil research projects to completion in various schools across UQ as well as 10 others at Leiden and as external supervisor at several other universities in Australia and overseas.

Ian's pioneering Honours and Masters research examined the precolonial archaeology of Southeast Queensland. Following ground-breaking work in Papua New Guinea with the Australian Museum during time out from his MA, Ian then did his PhD on ancient maritime trading systems which linked the New Guinea mainland and nearby Bismarck Archipelago. During his PhD, he took time out to lead a team in PNG's Duke of York Islands as a part of the international ANU-National Geographic Lapita Homeland Project. He then built on his PhD with a UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship, for which he won National Geographic funding to return to PNG. He has since undertaken archaeological and cultural heritage research, consultancies and advisory missions throughout Australasia and the Asia-Pacific and in Europe and the Americas, most recently with the Asian Development Bank regarding its heritage safeguards and the Chilean Ministry of Culture and Heritage concerning proposed new national heritage legislation. Ian's current work focuses primarily on global issues in World Heritage, particularly in relation to Indigenous and other traditional/ descendent communities. He is also involved in the global fight against looting and illicit cultural trafficking, in collaboration with the Antiquities Coalition in Washington DC. In 2024, he published a policy brief with the Coalition regarding the G20's plans for heritage protection. In addition, Ian is an accredited Subject Matter Expert with the US Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), which endeavours to find and repatriate the remains of missing service personnel. In that broad connection, he undertook a project with Dutch partners including the Netherlands Ministry of Defence and funded by the Netherlands Embassy, concerning the WWII headquarters of the Netherlands East Indies government in exile, which were located at Wacol just outside Brisbane.

Ian is a Fellow and past International Secretary and Vice President of the Australian Academy of Humanities, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, a federal statutory body. At UQ, Ian is an emeritus member of the UQ Centre for Marine Science. Externally, Ian is a member of Australia ICOMOS, for which he convenes the Strategic Advocacy Reference Group regarding state and federal heritage issues. He is also an ICOMOS International World Heritage Assessor and past Secretary-General of the ICOMOS International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM). In these connections, he sat on the Conservation Advisory Committee for the Port Arthur World Heritage site complex and on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Willandra Lakes World Heritage region. In addition, he is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, for which he is a member of the World Heritage Specialist Group, as well as the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy. In these capacities, he undertakes IUCN assessments of World Heritage cultural landscapes. He was also a member of the Advisory Group for a major IUCN-coordinated multi-agency project to reshape the assessment of protected area management effectiveness to include cultural as well as natural factors. ICOMOS and IUCN are the statutory independent Advisory Bodies to UNESCO on cultural and natural heritage respectively, and Ian is one of the few people globally who is a member of both world bodies. He is also immediate past Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, the region's peak professional archaeological body, served three consecutive terms as President of the Australian Archaeological Association and is past Chair of and continuing invited Advisor to the International Government Affairs Committee (IGAC) of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), the world's largest professional archaeological body. Among other matters, IGAC advises SAA on submissions to the US State Department regarding bilateral international agreements on the trafficking of cultural property. Ian also served for 10 years on the Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Arcaheology Forum, run by the Institute of Archaeology in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His other professional interests are archaeology and social identity, archaeological ethics, and the role of archaeology and archaeological heritage in contemporary society.

Dr Kieren Lilly is a social psychologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), University of Queensland. Kieren’s research examines experiences of inequality and discrimination, with a particular focus on the relationships between social identity, relative deprivation, political ideology, and collective action. For instance, his doctoral research explored the causes, consequences, and trajectories of relative deprivation among the general public, while his more recent work examines the factors shaping support for right-wing reactionary movements, typologies of authoritarianism, and perceptions of reverse discrimination among advantaged groups.

Kieren is also deeply committed to supporting LGBTQIA+ research and equity. He leads and collaborates on projects investigating (a) the relationships between identity, health, and well-being among LGBTQIA+ populations and (b) attitudes towards LGBTQIA+ people and social policy. Kieren’s research aims to challenge dominant, binary views of sexuality and gender, including via studies of sexual fluidity and transnormativity. In 2025, Kieren was awarded the UQ Ally Award in recognition of his commitment to promoting inclusion and community for transgender and gender-diverse staff and students.

At ISSR, Kieren works as part of the URBANiQ: Urban Intelligence for Healthy & Equitable Places @ The University of Queensland team, contributing to high-impact research related to urban liveability and community well-being. He also works on several commissioned projects monitoring and evaluating public programs related to substance use, criminal justice, and primary care. Kieren specialises in advanced quantitative research methods, including longitudinal, multilevel, person-centred, and quasi-experimental approaches, and has expertise in managing large-scale panel and administrative data sets.

Junxian Lim is an accomplished molecular biologist at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. With a strong background in cell biology, protein biochemistry, and pharmacology, he has established himself in the field. Collaborating with researchers at universities, institutions, as well as international industry partners like AstraZeneca and Sosei Heptares, he has contributed significantly to advancing scientific knowledge.

Throughout his doctoral studies, Junxian authored seven ground-breaking studies focused on the development of novel bioactive inhibitors targeting immune cells and inflammatory diseases. These contributions have paved the way for innovative approaches to drug development. Utilizing his expertise, he has successfully developed and characterized a diverse range of protein and cellular assays that enable in-depth investigations into immunity and inflammation. His research findings have been published in prestigious scientific journals, including Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Diabetes, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, and the British Journal of Pharmacology. His work has been highly cited, reflecting its impact and significance within the scientific community.

Recognized for his outstanding mentoring abilities, Junxian has supervised or co-supervised the research of two completed PhD students, six completed MPhil students, and three completed Honours students. The success of his former students is a testament to his dedication and guidance. They continue to excel and actively contribute to research endeavours around the world, spanning countries such as Australia, Singapore, Korea, India, Japan, and China.

Beyond his research and mentoring achievements, Junxian actively participates in the scientific community. He serves on the editorial boards of esteemed journals like Journal of Translational Medicine, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences and Biology. This involvement allows him to stay at the forefront of scientific advancements and contribute to the dissemination of knowledge within his field.