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Prof Lipman is Executive Director of the Burns Trauma & Critical Care Research Centre; Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, The University of Queensland and until recently (for 23 years) was Director of Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital; He holds Honorary Professorial appointments at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Unversity of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Qeensland University of Technology.

He has qualifications in anesthesia and intensive care and has set up and been in charge of a number of Intensive Care and Trauma Units in South Africa before coming to Australia in 1997. he currently manages a large multidisciplinary research team with an output of over 120 peer-reviewed articles per annum. He has supervised dozens of PhD students to completion and is currently supervising 6 PhD, 1 MPhil and 1 MBBS/Hons students. Prof Lipman has been instrumental in developing the anaesthesiology and critical care component of a graduate medical program for Queensland and continues to lecture to medical and postgraduate students.

Prof Lipman is the author of over 550 peer reviewed publications, 30 book chapters and has been invited to deliver over 120 lectures at national and international conferences in many countries across the world. His research interests include all aspects of infection management in intensive care and he has a special interest in the pharmacokinetics of antibiotic dosage, an area in which he received his MD in 2006. His research into antibiotic usage in acute situations has received international recognition and he is regarded as an expert in the field. As such, he and his research team have conducted and presently conduct a number of clinical trials in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Europe and the UK.

Prof Lipman is an Editorial Board member for 10 International Journals, is Section Editor on four Antibiotic related Journals, reviews for 23 journals and is an external reviewer for NHMRC project grants (Local) as well as equivalent for a number overseas countries.

He is Chief Investigator on a 7000 patient International Randomised Controlled Trial comparing bolus dosing versus continuous infusions of meropenem and piperacillin-tazobactam

Natalie Lis’s research examines how architecture mediates human–bird relationships through built structures such as chicken coops, cockfighting arenas, observation hides, sky burial sites, and penguinariums. By exploring the material, cultural, and symbolic roles of these spaces, her work brings fresh insight to urgent contemporary issues including animal ethics, sustainable agriculture, and designing for a more-than-human world.

Dr Robyn Littlewood – Chief Executive, Health and Wellbeing Queensland

As leader of the state’s first dedicated prevention agency, Dr Littlewood is a passionate advocate for health promotion in Queensland.

Dr Littlewood believes every Queenslander has the right to better health, with expertise in driving outcomes for individual patients and populations in the area of non-communicable diseases. She is relentless in driving policy and action to achieve fairness for all and reach the right communities at the right time.

An experienced leader, researcher, clinician, academic and educator, Dr Littlewood has more than 25 years’ experience working with the most vulnerable patients and families across paediatric obesity prevention, nutrition and dietetics.

Dr Littlewood holds a raft of formal qualifications in dietetics, business, research and executive leadership from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), James Cook University and The University of Queensland (UQ). These include a PhD, Master of Business Administration, Master of Medical Science and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. As such, bringing universities, industry, government and communities together to solve problems is key to her work.

She currently holds three Adjunct Professor appointments with Griffith University, QUT and UQ, and is proud to be working with these outstanding teaching and research universities. Dr Littlewood remains passionate about education, fostering student learning opportunities at HWQld.

Before her Chief Executive appointment in 2019, Dr Littlewood was a member of the inaugural HWQld board and held titles including Director, Health Services Research, Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service and Conjoint Associate Professor, Nutrition at UQ. While Director of specialist private nutrition practice ChildD, she led the first national paediatric dietetics training course in Australia, alongside Dietitians Australia.

Dr Littlewood has been awarded for her work and proudly accepted the QUT Outstanding Alumni Award (Health) in 2020. She has also held several Board roles including Board Director, Dietitians Australia, and has been awarded Fellow, Dietitians Australia for her service.

Dr Littlewood holds a range of national and Queensland clinical and academic positions and has been an invited speaker at state, national and international conferences. Her extensive list of publications includes co-authoring ‘Digital health and precision prevention: shifting from disease-centred care to consumer-centred health’ in peer-reviewed journal, Australian Health Review.

She is most passionate about children’s health, especially those who need it the most. Through her role at HWQld, Dr Littlewood’s focus remains firmly on driving an agenda of equity to ensure the next generation of Queenslanders live healthy and active lives.

Dr Qiao Liu is an Honorary Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland and Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. His previous posts include Associate Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland; Lee Ka Shing Visiting Professor at McGill University Faculty of Law; and specially appointed Tengfei Adjunct Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Law (China).

Professor Liu teaches in and researches a wide range of business-related common law and Chinese law topics including contract, commercial law, unjust enrichment, international commercial law (sale of goods, transfer of funds etc) and financial transactions, with a particular interest in comparative study of Chinese and Anglo-Australian private law. He has published widely in the above areas. His articles have appeared in leading journals including the Modern Law Review, American Journal of Comparative Law and the Cambridge Law Journal. His book entitled “Anticipatory Breach” (Hart Publishing Oxford 2011) is regarded by epic common law courts and top scholars as a leading monograph on an important topic of English contract law. Professor Liu’s works have been cited by epic common law courts including the High Court of Australia, the Singapore Court of Appeal and the New Zealand Court of Appeal as well as by the English High Court and the House of Lords.

Professor Liu has been Founding Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (OUP) since 2013 and has served as its Editor-in-Chief since late 2017. He is also Foreign-related Commercial and Maritime Adjudication Expert at the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing, a United Nations Commission on International Trade Law expert for updating the UNCITRAL Digest of Case Law on the CISG and currently a contributor to Chitty on Contracts: Hong Kong. Professor Liu has won highly prestigious and fiercely competitive grants in Australia, China and elsewhere, and has served as expert witness in law courts in Australia, Singapore and Greater China in a number of international commercial cases and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and a listed arbitrator with the South China International Arbitration Centre (Hong Kong).

Dr. Jiajun Liu is Principal Research Scientist and Science Leader for the Distributed Sensing Systems Group (DSSG) at the CSIRO, and leads the Distributed Intelligence team in the DSSG. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor@UQ. He received his PhD/BEng from the University of Queensland, Australia, and Nanjing University, China, in 2013 and 2006, respectively.

His research interest covers a range of topics in Machine Learning and Data Science, including efficient neural nets, graph learning, and multimedia/multimodal analytics. At CSIRO he is looking into how to make sensing systems more intelligent and efficient, by developing knowledge distillation and efficient neural architectures to enable efficient AI models on edge devices and distributed sensing applications.

He also serves as a reviewer/TPC member/Area Chair for numerous international journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, The VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Clustering Computing, Ad Hoc Networks, Neurocomputing, Multimedia Systems, ACM Multimedia Conference 14' 21', CIKM 21', PAKDD 17~20', APWeb 16', etc.

Dr Liu is a research fellow at Frazer Institute specialising in pharmacometrics, using mathematic models to understand how medicine behave in the model and to support evidence-based dosing decisions. Her research focuses on population pharmacokinetic (popPK) and physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling, dose optimisation, and model-informed precision dosing.

Her work combine clinical data, pharmacology, and quantitative mdoelling to better understand variability in drug exposure and response across different patient populations. This helps inform dosing strategies and supports the development of safer and more effective treatments.

She provides pharmacometric support across a range of research projects, designing and applying PopPK/PBPK models to characterise drug disposition and predict treatment outcomes under different dosing scenarios. Through simulation and quantitative analysis, she helps research teams evaluate dosing regimens, understand patient variability, and generate evidence to support clinical and regulatory decision-making.

Shuang is an internationally recognised intercultural communication expert, specialising in the areas of ageing and immigration, acculturation, identity negotiation, and intercultural relations. Her research examines how older people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds build a sense of home as they live and age in a foreign land; how family and community care can be integrated to provide culturally appropriate, accessible and sustainale care for older people; how older people interact with their physical, social, cultural, and digital environments to develop attachment to place; and the consequences of these interactions for well-being. Shuang's work has been published in high-ranking international journals, and two sole authored books: Identity, hybirdity and cultural home (2015; Rowman & Littlefield) and Chinese migrants ageing in a foreign land (2019; Routledge). Her lead-authored textbook, Introducing intercultural communication: Global cultures and contexts, is in its 4th edition, and previous three editions have been adopted in 26 countries across 4 continents, with holdings in libraries of prestigeous institutions including Stanford University, Yale University, University of Oxford, University of Cape Town, and University of Zurich. Shuang is a fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research.

Shuang welcomes inquires from prospective Higher Degreee by Research students who are interested in working with her on their theses in any of the related research areas.

Dr. Min Liu is currently an ARC DECRA at the University of Queensland. He received his PhD in Polymer Science and Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Qiang Fu, Prof. Paul Webley, and Prof. Greg Qiao. He then joined the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral fellow, where he worked with Prof. Zachary Hudson on self-assembling block copolymers and porous materials from 2022 to 2024. Subsequently, he moved to the University of Toronto to work with Prof. David Sinton and Prof. Edward Sargent (2024-2025), focusing on electrochemical CO and CO2 reduction.

Dr. Guoquan Liu has more than ten years experience in sorghum tissue culture and genetic transformation. He developed a highly efficient sorghum particle transformation system in 2012. Since then, hundreds of transgenic plants have been regenerated from tens of constructs that are invoved in plant disease resistant genes (e.g. Lr34), report gene (gfp), specific-promoters (e.g. alpha- beta- kafirin, A2, LSG), G proteins etc.. He has trained many students how to transform sorghum including honor students, master students, and PhD students.

He has focused on improving sorghum grain yield and grain quality through biotechnologies including genetic transformation, genome-editing, synthetic biology, and plant apomixis.

Dr Minran Liu is a Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS) at the University of Queensland. His teaching and research focus on Chinese politics and strategy, East Asian politics, and Asia-Pacific regional security.

He is currently a Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the International Studies Association (ISA) Asia-Pacific. He is a Research Associate at the Second Cold War Observatory, an Adjunct Fellow at the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney, and an Honorary Member of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Before joining UQ, he was a Lecturer in International & Political Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra. He was a Lecturer in International Relations in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, where he was the Degree Director of the Master of International Security program. He has extensive experience in professional education and regularly provides commentary on politics and international relations to broader public audiences through Australian and international media outlets.