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Dr Mason began at The University of Queensland in late 2014 after holding academic positions at The University of Sydney and QUT. Prior to joining UQ he also worked as a catastrophe risk researcher for the industry-focused research centre, Risk Frontiers at Macquarie University. Matthew’s key areas of interest and expertise lie in the fields of:

• Wind Engineering
• Stochastic modelling of hazards, including convective storms and tropical cyclones
• Probabilistic modelling of structural and infrastructure vulnerability to wind, water and hail
• Catastrophe loss modelling for natural hazards
• Modelling and observation of the atmospheric boundary layer
• Wind tunnel testing and analysis
• Disaster insurance

Dr Mason is currently the Chair of the Standards Australia wind loading sub-committee responsible for maintenance of AS/NZS1170.2.

Karen is a Research Fellow in QAAFI at the University of Queensland whose research group is focused on the improvement of crops using genomic and biotechnological tools. She began her scientific journey through obtaining an Honours BSc in Pharmaceutical sciences (Genomics) from the University Ottawa where her honours focused on the impact of RNA stability in cold-treated wheat seedlings. From there she joined Ian Godwin's group in SAFS at UQ to start her PhD in developing and optimising biotechnological tools in sorghum to understand food and feed quality. As a research fellow, she has applied these initiatives to numerous tropical grain crops and using these tools to study a range of traits focused on understanding key developmental pathways.

Barbara’s research uses social psychological theory to solve real social problems. Over 19 years she has collaborated with a range of industry partners (e.g., Australian Red Cross Lifeblood; state police agencies) to design and evaluate theory-based solutions to problems as diverse as how to minimise bias in investigating allegations of sexual assault to how to maximise blood donor appointment attendance. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications including many focused on gender, prejudice, discrimination, and SoHO donor recruitment and retention that have been published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Law & Human Behavior, Transfusion, Transfusion Medicine Reviews and and other journals.

Dr Eve Massingham was a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Law, The University of Queensland looking at the diverse ways in which the law constrains or enables autonomous functions of military platforms, systems and weapons from September 2019 - August 2022. She is the co-editor of Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law (Routledge, 2020) and she has published a number of book chapters and journal articles in the fields of international humanitarian law and international law and the use of force. Eve is currently the International Committee of the Red Cross' Regional Legal Adviser for the Pacific. Eve has also worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross as the Regional Legal Adviser for East Africa and as a Policy Adviser in the Legal Division in Geneva as well as for Australian Red Cross as an International Humanitarian Law officer. She began her career at (then) Freehills (admitted 2004) and was an Associate to Justice Collier at the Federal Court of Australia. Eve has also served as an Australian Army Reserve Officer. Eve holds a Bachelor of Law (Hons) from Queensland University of Technology, a Master of International and Community Development from Deakin University, an LLM (Distinction) from King's College London and a PhD from the University of Queensland.

Dr Mostafa Kamal Masud is a CCQ Next Generation Cancer Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology (AIBN), the University of Queensland (UQ). In 2020, he received his PhD in Medical Biotechnology Diagnostics and Nanobiotechnology from AIBN, UQ. He received his MS and B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh. After completing his PhD, he was awarded a prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (success rate >10%) from Japan and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).He recently been awarded a highly prestigious ARC DECRA fellowship for the period 2024-2026 and a QLD Cancer Council fellowship for the period 2024–2028. His research focuses on the development of novel nanostructures and nanodiagnostic technologies to address critical issues in medical diagnosis. As an early career researcher, he has an excellent track record with more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious and high-impact journals in the area that achieve <2800 citations with an h-index of 29 (Scholar google link: https://bit.ly/2Vtv67l). He has developed new classes of superparamagnetic nanostructures and fabricated novel biosensors for the detection of disease-specific biomolecular targets e.g., for miRNA, DNA, exosome and protein biomarker detection that have proven to be easy and effective, allowing for rapid diagnosis with minimal equipment. He made a major contribution to nanotechnology integrated-analytical and diagnostic fields by providing analytical and technological input as well as developing key collaborations with clinicians and biologists for translational research. His strategy is to create nano-architecture point-of-care diagnostic technology for early diagnosis of cancer that could hopefully lead to a healthy and happier life for humans.

Dr Sabine Matook is a scientist at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland. She has the position of Professor in Information Systems. Dr Matook received her doctoral degree from the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden, Germany.

Research

Sabine's scientific work focuses on data and IT artifacts in the two areas of information systems development (ISD) and social media. In these fields, Professor Matook's work focuses on examining how humans and technology function and interact with each other and the environment in which they operate. Her core focus is on data, and Professor Matook applies analytical techniques and scientific procedures to datasets, extracting insights for organizational operations. In her research work, she creates, designs, builds, and deploys analytic frameworks, reference models, and AI tools to obtain information for strategic planning and decision-making.

Within the context of ISD, she seeks to understand why and how the data, information needs, and behaviors of teams and individuals dynamically impact the design and development of the IT artifact, including technology-mediated teams (including human-AI hybrids). Her interests also motivate the work in social-artificial intelligence algorithmic technologies in social media. Based on Professor Matook's data-driven findings, key organizational decision-makers gain insights into how to respond to sudden virtual events, prevent data threats, and protect personal information.

In 2022, Sabine was recognized for her excellence in science and her scientific publications with the 2022 UQ Business School Research Award. Already in 2009, Professor Matook received this scientific honour for her research and development work.

Sabine is a Senior Research Fellow with the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute. She has also held visiting positions at the University of Arizona (Eller College of Management), Georgia State University (J. Mack Robinson College of Business), the University of Louisville, Technische Universitaet Dresden (Germany), Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Austria), and the University of La Serena (Chile).

Her research is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (single CI) Grants in the fields of Sabine's expertise, especially information systems development and social media.

Sabine's science articles published and presented at ICIS 2023, coauthored with Nadia Bello Rinaudo and Alan Dennis, about "AI Algorithms and Time Experience in Social Media: Explaining Discontinued Use" received the Best-Paper Runner's up award (selected from more than 200 accepted short papers).

Dr. Matook's work has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, the Journal of Business Research, Decision Support Systems, and the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. Over the years, Sabine Matook has presented numerous research papers at international conferences, including the ICIS, ECIS, and PACIS.

Teaching and Learning

Sabine Matook is a passionate educator and a champion for work-integrated learning in higher education to train the next generation of scientists.

In February 2024, Sabine was recognised by the 2023 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) with a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for "For innovatively designing a digital work-integrated learning partnership approach that enhances students' employability in Business Information Systems while inspiring them to ‘give-back’ to community organisations."

She received the 2022 UQ Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and the 2021 Teaching Excellence Award of the UQ Faculty BEL on "Enhancing Employability". She was also awarded the 2021 UQ Business School Award for "Innovation in Large Courses".

She is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE -- which indicates an advanced level of professional standing regarding her expertise in teaching and learning in higher education. In 2022, Sabine was appointed to the HEA@UQ Review Panel as an Assessor.

Sabine Matook produced in 2023 a train-the-trainer workshop for low-code development for the AIS Digital Academy.

Sabine also engages in the scientific scholarship of teaching with a focus on digital employability through citizen development. Her work is currently under review in high-quality academic journals, whereas Sabine published initial findings at the 2021 Australasian Conference on Information Systems and, in 2024, at the Journal of Information Technology and, in 2025, at Business & Information Systems Engineering.

An opinion piece at The Conversation about "How work-integrated learning helps to make billions in uni funding worth it" and an article in the Campus Section of the Times Higher Education about "Helping students to see the future career value of their work-integrated learning" reached a large readership and influenced the practices of science educators in Australia.

Service

Professor Matook is an active and engaged member of the scientific community in Australia and globally. She received multiple awards and recognitions for your extensive contributions to science.

Sabine Matook received the 2021 AIS Technology ATLAS Award. This award is given to scientists who have made the most significant contributions toward the intellectual infrastructure of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). In 2022, Sabine was awarded the AIS Vision Award to recognize her scientific contributions to the vision of the Association for Information Systems.

She is an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly (MISQ), a Senior Editor for the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) and for the former journal AIS Transactions on Replication Research (TRR), a member of the editorial review board for Information System Research andJournal of Management Information Systems, and has been an Associate Editor for Information Systems Journal (ISJ).

Sabine Matook is the AIS Council Secretary for The Association for Information Systems (Sep 2021- 2027).

In 2019, Dr. Matook served on the Expert Panel 'Information Systems' that reviewed the 2019 Australian Business Deans Council Journal Quality List, and in 2022, she served on the Expert Panel that reviewed the 2020 journal ranking list of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS)

Sabine Matook was the program chair for the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) in 2022 and 2021 and 2019. In addition, she served repeatedly as track chair for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) [2025, 2023, 2029, 2015], the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) [2024-2026,2020], Pacific-Asian Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) in [2024, 2022, 2020], and the Australasian Conference on Information Systems [2018, 2019].

Dr. Kate Beecher Matthews is an Early Career Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UQ Centre of Clinical Research. Her PhD research focused on the impact of long-term sucrose overconsumption on serotonin and dopamine, which are critical to the brain’s reward system.

Dr. Matthews has a keen interest in integrating her PhD expertise with breast cancer research, particularly in understanding the interaction between the nervous system and breast cancer cells in the brain. Dr. Matthews works in the Molecular Breast Pathology Lab with Prof. Sunil Lakhani, A/Prof Amy McCart Reed, A/Prof Peter Simpson, and Dr Vaibhavi Joshi. In collaboration with A/Prof Amy McCart Reed, she is investigating the genomic landscape of pre- and post-neoadjuvant treatment breast cancers.

Professor Kelly Matthews is an expert on the student experience in higher education—recently ranked amongst the top 5% of cited scholars globally in higher education, teaching and curriculum, and student partnership—and is an award-winning university teacher.

Her research, spanning over 150 publications and 100 invited talks, is about impact---shaping how students actively participate in their learning, directly improving experiences for students and informing the practices of teaching staff globally. Awarded an Australian Teaching Fellowship and a Higher Education Academy Principal Fellowship, Kelly has

• established influential international writing groups that mentor and motivate emerging scholars to publish about their educational practices,
• co-founded the International Journal for Students as Partners to enable students and staff from across the world to shape what counts as knowledge,
• created and sustained the Students as Partners Network to both celebrate and inspire educational practices across universities worldwide, and
• led collaborative, multi-institutional projects that recognise and promote educational leadership and change through applied research.

In 2025, Kelly is leading a multi-institutional project with Deakin, Monash, and UTS to shape AI policy and practice through student voice.

Kelly is the Academic Lead for Student Experience and Strategic Initiatives in the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Portfolio in the Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation.

I study design as a collaborative process that materialises alternative social futures. Those futures are sometimes new products, systems, services, infrastructures and technologies. But they can also be social contracts, agreements, processes, ways of working and new possibilities for our collective lives together.

I currently lead research projects in three broad domains: designing advocacy, designing the materials of participation, and augmenting skill and expertise through design.

The designing advocacy project has worked with a range of stakeholders with reduced agency such as people with mental health needs, chronic illnesses, injured workers, and other stigmatised or at-risk groups. We have developed methods for the inclusion of their perspectives in design processes, insights about their specific conditions and needs, critical analyses of how they are conceptualised from the perspectives of technologists and service providers, and design proposals for services and technologies that amplify their agency.

The designing the materials of participation project develops formats and processes for participatory design—the inclusion of stakeholders in the design of systems that will affect the organisation of their work and life. In this project we study how technologies and systems are used in microanalytic detail, analysing how tools and materials shape people's interactions. We use this understanding as a basis for the design of new methods and processes (and sometimes new matierals) for involving people in the design process, and giving them greater autonomy over the systems they will use.

The augmenting skill and expertise through design project studies specialist work practices for the purposes of developing technology support for that work. We have worked with aeromedical teams, audiologists, passport officers, emergency first responders, quick service chefs, primary school teachers, and other professional contexts of use to understand the local and particular skills that enable those workplaces to function effectively and collaboratively. We use these understandings to inform the deisgn of technologies and work practices that support, and preserve, those core professional skills.

The constants across these projects relate to the design process—the methods used to understand people, identify design opportunities, facilitate collaboration between project stakeholders, champion users' contexts and requirements, prototype early solutions, evaluate concepts in the field, and build new technologies. This results in a variety of research contributions: new design methods and perspectives that have been tailored for specific contexts of use, identification of the potentials and limitations of different approaches to design and analysis, the discovery of context-specific issues for the design of new systems, new understandings of people, their work and contexts of use, and the design and evaluation of bespoke technologies.

Professor Jason Mattingley was appointed as Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Queensland in January 2007, a joint appointment between the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Psychology.

He completed a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours at Monash University (1988), a Master of Science Degree in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Melbourne (1990), and a PhD in Psychology at Monash University (1995). In 1994 he was awarded an NHMRC Neil Hamilton Fairley Post-Doctoral Fellowship, which he took to the University of Cambridge. Here he worked jointly with Professor Jon Driver in the Department of Experimental Psychology and Professor Ian Robertson at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. While in Cambridge he was elected a Fellow of King’s College.

Upon returning to Australia Professor Mattingley was appointed as Senior Research Fellow (later Principal Research Fellow) at the University of Melbourne, where he was Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory within the School of Behavioural Science (2000 – 2006).

Professor Mattingley has won numerous accolades for his research, including an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (2012), the Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science Award from the Australian Psychological Society (2012), and the Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award (Faculty of Biomedical and Psychological Sciences, 2016).

He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2007, and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2016.

Dr Graeme Mattison is an Advanced Trainee in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Lecturer within the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences. He has recently completed a PhD entitled, "Integrating Wearable Devices into the Patient-Centred Digital Healthcare Environment". He is the recipient of The 2024 UQ Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Thesis by Research award. Dr Mattison is a scholar with the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre and has a keen interest in the integration of digital health innovations into existing healthcare platforms to improve outcomes, particularly in chronic respiratory disease. He also holds a keen interest in undergraduate and prevocational medical education.