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Luna is a Lecturer in Management at UQ Business School. Her research explores human-AI interaction, creativity, and feedback, with a focus on how artificial intelligence shapes human behavior and how we can collaborate with AI most effectively.

Before joining UQ, Luna completed her PhD in Management Studies at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. She also holds a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Actuarial Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr Kristiana Ludlow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Behavioural Sciences, the University of Queensland, and an Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. She completed her Bachelor of Psychology with first class Honours in 2015, her Master of Research in Medicine and Health Sciences in 2017, and her PhD in in Health Innovation in 2020. Dr Ludlow has expertise in co-design, qualitative research and Q methodology. Her research interests include co-designing interventions and digital health tools with end-users, frailty, education, aged care, person-centred care, the role of family caregivers in care, missed care/unfinished care, and care prioritisation. She is passionate about collaborating with consumers, service users and health professionals to improve the delivery of healthcare and mental health services.

Annika Luebbe is an early career researcher with interests in rural mental health in Australia and abroad. Her works focus on strengths-based approaches to understanding the many contributions to mental health in rural, regional, and remote locations. Annika has experience in mixed-methods research, framework development, and mental health service evaluation. Her ongoing research in rural health contributes to the growing rural mental health literature, informing relevant rural solutions, policy, and practice.

Karen Luetsch's research interests focus on pharmacy and health professional education, pharmacists' attitudes and behaviours in practice and realist research in these settings. In addition patient-centred and interprofessional communication and practice are some of her past and current research topics. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Karen completed her undergraduate pharmacy training and PhD in Germany before moving to Australia in 1995. Karen has a background in hospital pharmacy as specialist pharmacist and manager as well as in the design, management and delivery of educational initiatives to health professionals across all health care settings.

As a senior research fellow at the University of South Australia Karen is undertaking a realist review and evaluation of a major educational programme targeted at optimising the utilisation of bDMARDs in auto-immune diseases.

Over 5 years of experience in translational biomedical research, specialising in monoclonal antibody-based therapies, immuno-oncology, target discovery and theranostics in cancer. My main research focus is on targeted cancer therapies, understanding how target receptor endocytosis affects antibody drug conjugate (ADC) and radioligand therapy delivery, immune-mediated ADCC, and how combination therapies with immune checkpoint inhibitors can potentially improve therapeutic outcomes for patients.

Dr. Ye Luo received his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015. He received his B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010, majoring in Mathematics and Economics. Dr. Ye Luo’s main research interests include high dimensional econometrics/statistics, machine learning and its empirical applications in economics and finance, for example, applying AI algorithms to develop smart, adaptive automated trading systems, applying big data methods/machine learning in default risk prediction, dynamic demand prediction, etc. He also has an interest and expertise in natural language processing.

Dr. Ye Luo has research papers published/forthcoming at Econometrica, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, American Economic Review, P&P, etc. Beyond Dr. Ye Luo’s academic research, he has a strong interest in connecting research in data science to the industry. He has given/been invited to give lectures at DiDi, ShunFeng Express, Novartis, etc.

Yadan Luo is currently a Senior Lecturer with Data Science Discipline, School of EECS, The University of Queensland. She received her BSc degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and her PhD in Computer Science from School of ITEE, The University of Queensland in 2017 and 2021 respectively. Her research interests mainly include machine learning from imperfect data, by leveraging domain adaptation, domain generalization, few-/zero-shot learning and active learning to empower the applications in computer vision and multimedia data analysis areas. Her work of image analysis published at Pattern Recognition Journal in 2018 is placed in the top 1% of the academic field of Engineering and is recognised as a Highly Cited Paper by Web of Science. Yadan was awarded the Google PhD Fellowship 2020 as a recognition of her research in the machine learning area and her strong potential of influencing the future of technology. She was also a recipient of ICT Young Achiever Award, Women in Technology (WiT.org) 2018 and a few other research awards.

[For Prospective Students] I am continuously looking for highly-motivated Ph.D. students to work on machine learning & multimedia data analysis, specifically for addressing domain shifts and generalisation issues. Please send me your CV if interested.

Dr Dan Luo is a designer and architectural researcher with a strong foundation in computer science. She earned a PhD in Architecture from Tsinghua University (2019), Master of Architecture from Columbia University (2014), and an MSc in Computer and Information Technology at the University of Pennsylvania(2023).

Dr Luo’s scholarship centers on digital design and robotic construction. After practicing at the pioneering firm UNStudio, she has focused on integrating advanced fabrication technologies with design build workflows to envision the future of automated construction. Her work has been published in leading journals and conference proceedings, and the robotic systems she developed have been deployed on active building sites.

Dr Luo is also a key researcher within the ARC Advance Timber Hub, Blue Economy CRC, Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre, and Transport Academic Partnership Project, leading projects with public agencies and academic partners. Her extensive collaborations span international networks of partners. Her projects have been exhibited at the Milan Triennial, the Architecture Center New York, and the China Millennium Monument. From 2014 to 2019, she served as Director of International Collaboration for the China Building Centre, where she curated international design competitions and educational programs for universities, developers, and government agencies.

A/Professor Bin Luo is currently an ARC Future Fellow and Group Leader in Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at the University of Queensland (UQ). He received his doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry from National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in July 2013. In August 2014, Dr Luo joined UQ as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AIBN. He then secured highly competitive UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2015-2018), ARC DECRA Fellowship (2018-2021), and ARC Future Fellowship (2021-2025).

Research interests in Luo group mainly include

• Design of functional materials for next generation energy storage applications, including multivalent metal batteries, redox flow batteries and solid state batteries.
• Exploring new conceptual energy conversion or storage systems (e.g. flexible/micro-batteries, solar rechargeable battery).
• Revealing the structure-performance relationship of functional materials via in/ex situ investigations.
• Interaction of biomaterials and energy storage.

Dr Hai Thanh Luong is currently conducting his Research Fellow in Cyber Criminology at the School of Social Science and a member of HDR Committee as well as collaborating with UQ Cyber Centre. Additionally, he is a member of the Global Initiative Network's Expert against Transnational Organized Crime (GI TOC) and also a senior researcher and chair of the Asian Drug Crime Research Committee at the Institute for Asian Crime and Security (IACS), the U.S while holding an Associate Research Fellow at the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University. Dr Hai has a Bachelor of Law (Criminal Investigation) and has spent twenty years researching and teaching in police institutions across the mainland Southeast Asian region, particularly in Vietnam. In 2010, as one of the new emergent scholars for the Australian Development Scholarship in non-traditional security threat fields, he was awarded a full scholarship to gain a Master in Transnational Crime Prevention at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. In 2017 he earned a PhD (criminology) at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, after examining the complicated structure and modus operandi of several transnational drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle across the borderland between Vietnam and Laos in his thesis. His interests include cybercrime, policing in cybercrime/cybersecurity, drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, police training, environmental crimes and biological threats. As a research fellow in cyber criminology at the UQ, he prioritises exploring what, why, and how the human factors impact trends and patterns of cybercrime and applying criminological theories to analyse the criminal network structure and crime script of cyber-related crimes. His latest book 'Transnational Drug Trafficking across the Vietnam and Laos Border' was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. He has also published several papers in various academic journals (Asian Survey; Journal of Crime and Justice; International Journal of Cyber Criminology; International Journal of Drug Policy; Policing and Society; International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy; and Trends in Organized Crime, among others). In 2020, he was awarded the Young Asian Criminologists from the Asian Criminological Society (ASC).

As a member of the Asian Regional Law Enforcement Management Program (ARLEMP), funded by the Australian Federal Police and hosted by the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam and RMIT Hanoi, he contributed to building a comprehensive connection among law enforcement agencies, policymakers, and academia across Asian countries to prevent and combat serious and transnational crimes since 2005. Accordingly, he has collaborated with law enforcement agencies (police, customs, border guards, coast/maritime guards, and rangers) to exchange, discuss, and research the trends and patterns of transnational crimes across the Southeast Asia region through joining and consulting at the Australia-Mekong Partnership and the U.S.-Mekong Dialogue against Transnational Crimes. Recently, he presented and worked closely with many international and regional organisations, including the UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand), ASEANPOL, and AFP and consulted with the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam and the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam. He has gained research funds from the GI TOC, UNODC, Harm Reduction International, International Drug Policy Consortium, Australian Government, the U.S. Department of State, and Vietnamese Government in recent ten years.

Matthew heads the Ecological Cascades Lab [link] in the UQ School of the Environment, is a Chief Investigator with the UQ Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, is the Director of the TERN Wildlife Observatory of Australia, and is an ARC DECRA Fellow from 2022-2025.

We are accepting qualified PhD students for domestic and international wildlife projects. Potential PhD topics include: How does the loss of apex predators influence lower trophic levels? How does selective hunting of particular species (e.g. pigs) affect non-hunted competitors (e.g. deer)? How does wildlife influence plant communities and traits? How do invasive predators affect biodiversity? How can we integrate existing camera trap datasets to conduct powerful analyses and for monitoring? How will climate change impact the phenology of trees and thus fruit resources for animals?

Our lab is interested in all aspects of wildlife ecology, including food-web ecology, plant-animal interactions, and applied conservation science. We have experience with tropical forests in Southeast Asia using a variety of flora and fauna sampling techniques (cameras, vegetation surveys, fenced animal exclosures, invasive species, hunting surveys, and before-after zoonotic disease). We also run the largest camera trapping surveys across the Wet Tropics forests of Queensland. Most sampling is geared to assess the impacts of habitat fragmentation, agriculture, hunting, climate change, and invasive species on wildlife communities and plant-animal interactions.

Prior to joining UQ, Matthew worked with the Smithsonian Institute’s Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) to coordinate surveys of wildlife communities in Sumatra, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. These projects link apex predators to herbivores to trees and have revealed how oil palm expansion has restructured ecological communities and triggered trophic cascades. Matthew has now begun a large long-term project in the Dja Faunal Reserve of Cameroon with the Congo Basin Institute and collaborates closely with UCLA on these projects. Matthew obtained his PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley.

Experienced human factors and ergonomics researcher across a range of industries, particularly mining. Current projects are in the areas of mining automation, human systems integration, equipment design to reduce injury risk, whole body vibration, manual task risk assessment, diverty and incusion in the design of mining equipment to reduce injury risk, high reliability organisation (HRO) research, and most recently understanding how increasing the attractiveness of work will impact and impreve the health,safety and well being of the mining industry work force.

Danellie has held a research position within the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre since 2010. Prior to joining the centre she was director and principle physiotherapist of a combined physiotherapy clinic and ergonomics consultancy. She is a certified professional ergonomist (CPE) with the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc.

Research Interests

Danellie has a broad range of research interests across the scope of human factors and ergonomics. She has undertaken work in health and safety in developing countries including sub sahara Africa and PNG funded by the International Mining for Developing Countries program, and been part of research grants by CSIRO (National Flagship Minerals Down Under project), the Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP), the Coal Services Health and Safety Trust (NSW), and Resources Safety and Health Queensland.

Overview

Deborah Lynch is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Student Engagement, Experience and Employability (SEEE) Academic Lead in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work (NMSW) since September 2021. In this academic leadership role, Deborah engages with staff and students groups across the different disciplines and programs in NMSW to facilitate participatory practices and create multiple opportunities for students to engage, express themselves, connect and belong. This has involved partnering with students from each discipline in the School in a Student-Staff Partnership (SSP) Project to co-create a NMSW Student Experience Action Plan (SAP). The SSP project positioned student voices at the heart of the process and emphasised the added value of interdisciplinary connections to facilitate the interchange of knowledge, practice and skills between disciplines that side-steps separate and distinct professional silos.

Since joining UQ, Deborah has undertaken a range of leadership roles in the School. From 2013 until 2016, she was Program Lead of the Bachelor of Social Work and subsequently Bachelor of the Social Work (Honours) overseeing the program through the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Academic Program Review (APR), mapping to AQF Level 8 (Honours) and Reaccreditation of the Program by the Australian Social Work Education and Accreditation Standards (ASWEAS) in 2016. She resumed this leadership role to lead the APR and Reaccreditation of the Program in 2021. She was the Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Program Lead in the School from 2019 to 2021 leading the program through COVID-19.

Deborah teaches social work across undergraduate and post-graduate programs in the School and supervises Higher Degree by Research students. Her main teaching areas are group work, community development and international social work. She brings many years of experience in hospital and community-based social work as well as international community development practice in South Africa, India (Kolkata and Bangalore), Nepal (Kathmandu) and Indonesia (North Sumatra) to her teaching. Central to her pedagogy is modelling professional practice by example, and creating safe, supported and enabling learning environments where social work students can build their repertoire of practice skills and capacities which empowers them as learners and future professionals. Deborah grounds her social work teaching in values such as social justice and human rights, criticality and working collectively to nurture dynamic, innovative forms of practice that can respond to contemporary community, environmental and societal issues. Deborah is passionate about social work and the environment and researches and incorporates ecosocial work into her community development teaching. She is a member of BrisLETS which is a Brisbane-based local energy trading system.

Since joining UQ, Deborah has attained recognition for her teaching through receiving the following awards: Dean's Scholar Commendations for Teaching (2012 and 2013); School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work Teaching and Learning Award: Respect and Support for the Development of Students (2016); UQ Teaching and Learning Award: Commendation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2017); and Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Teaching and Learning Award: Commendation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2022). She became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy through the HEA@UQ program in June 2019 which is an established international recognition scheme for university educators. Currently she is an Affiliate Academic with the UQ Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) which is an academic outreach role offered by ITaLI to UQ academics who can demonstrate expertise in teaching and learning.

Since her first research paper on child sexual abuse in The South African Medical Journal in 1988, Deborah has published on systems, policies and practices in health, education and justice that impact on children, young people, families, and communities. In Australia, she developed the North Sydney Area Health Service’s response to young people and adults who experienced childhood sexual abuse, and contributed to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) policy and protocols in New South Wales (and subsequently in Ireland). In Canberra, Deborah developed support programs for refugee children with the Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation and Network Service (TRANSACT). Her publications on children’s rights and child protection foreground the critical contributions of child protection practitioners, academics, non-government organisations, professional groups, children’s rights advocates and child abuse survivor groups to policy, theory, research, and practice. Working with East Cork Area Development (ECAD) which is a community partnership between public, community and voluntary sectors; youth organisations in East Cork; and the Health Service Executive (HSE), Deborah collaborated on a community-based project which explored the needs of over 700 young people in Cork, Ireland.

Deborah is committed to international outreach, engagement and leadership in social work and community development research and education.Through international collaborations in social work in Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and Singapore, Deborah contributes to interdisciplinary leadership in collaborative projects and journal publications including the British Journal of Social Work, European Journal of Social Work, Social Work Education and Ethics and Social Welfare. She co-authored Social Work and Community Development: A Critical Practice Perspective (2015; Palgrave McMillan) with Dr. Catherine Forde at University College Cork in Ireland and in 2021 she co-edited a themed section of the Community Development Journal with Dr Catherine Ford (University of Cork) and Dr Athena Lathouras (University of the Sunshine Coast). The section focused on community development and social work education and explored contemporary themes such as COVID-related circumstances, digital technologies for social good, the climate crisis and economic inequality and achieving economic opportunity and justice. In addition, Deborah contributes to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through innovative conceptual papers such as the use of visual pedagogies to develop students’ observational skills and criticality in a digital era (The British Journal of Social Work) and on her teaching experiences and lessons learned during COVID-19 (UQ Teaching and Learning Newsletter; Social Dialogue).

Deborah builds interdisciplinary partnerships through research collaborations which align with, and support her program of research in community development. Her recent Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (2022-2025) focuses on how school-community partnerships underpinned by social justice principles can enable and empower young people experiencing disadvantages and vulnerabilities to engage in education. She is part of an established research team and program initiated by the UQ Humanities and Social Science (HASS) Strategic Research Funding (SRF) Scheme. This research builds on commissioned work with the Queensland Department of Education on school attendance.

Deborah is passionate about health equity. She is keen to draw on community development approaches in research scholarship to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, groups and communities. In November, 2023 she contributed to the Singapore Ministry of Health National Training Programme as a Visiting Expert in Community Development. Currently, through an inter-disciplinary Indigenous research collaboration within nursing and midwifery colleagues and HDR social work students in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, Deborah is researching community-based prevention programs and initiatives to address Rheumatic Heart Disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.

Dr Sasha Lynn is a registered clinical psychologist and Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. She specialises in child and adolescent development, with a particular focus on social and emotional learning (SEL), mental health, and wellbeing in educational settings. Her work spans psychology, education, and neuroscience, with an emphasis on research that is both applied and translational.

Dr Lynn’s research investigates how wellbeing and mental health influence developmental and educational outcomes, particularly in relation to emotion regulation, peer relationships, and classroom engagement. She is committed to embedding SEL meaningfully into the curriculum through developmentally informed, evidence-based strategies. A core feature of her work is the co-design of interventions with educators and students, ensuring student voice and agency are central to program design and implementation.

She has a particular interest in the use of gamification frameworks to increase engagement with SEL and mental health content, and her research spans both digital and face-to-face modes of delivery. Her work also explores how compassion-focused therapeutic approaches can be adapted to educational contexts to enhance both student and teacher wellbeing, classroom climate, and relational safety.

Dr Lynn is affiliated with the UQ Learning Lab and is a member of the Compassionate Mind Research Group. She has been involved in a number of large-scale projects across school and clinical settings, and brings nearly 20 years of direct experience in school-based clinical and mental health roles to her academic work. This practitioner perspective ensures her research remains grounded in the realities of education systems and responsive to the needs of schools.

She has contributed to the development and evaluation of interventions such as KooLKIDS and Mindfields HS, which have demonstrated promising early outcomes and attracted commercial interest. Dr Lynn’s broader goal is to support educators, families, and students by creating practical, evidence-informed approaches that foster resilience, emotional literacy, and a positive foundation for lifelong learning.

Professor Kristen Lyons is a public intellectual with over twenty years experience in research, teaching and service that delivers national and international impacts on issues that sit at the intersection of sustainability and development, as well as the future of higher education. Trained as a sociologist, Kristen is comfortable working in transdisciplinary teams to deliver socially just outcomes, including for some of the world's most vulnerable communities. Kristen works regularly in Uganda, Solomon Islands and Australia, and her work is grounded in a rights-based approach. In practice, this means centring the rights and interests of local communities, including Indigenous peoples, in her approach to research design, collaboration, and impacts and outcomes. Kristen is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Oakland Institute.