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Professor Emma Mace’s research interest is in developing and applying innovative genomics approaches to support sorghum improvement activities.

In Professor Mace’s current role leading sorghum genomics research components of research projects funded by the Grains Research Development Corporation (GRDC), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Australian Research Council (ARC),her work focuses on generating significant innovative outcomes across a range of applications, from basic through to applied, specifically in using technologies to bridge the gene to phenotype gap, and to elucidate the genetic basis of quantitative and qualitative traits.

Dr Macionis is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism, and is the Program Leader of the Bachelor of Tourism, Hotel and Event Management Program at UQ Business School. Niki is a Teaching-Focused academic with over twenty-five years experience in tertairy education. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and currently co-chairs the Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group within the Council of Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Educators (CAUTHE). Niki teaches both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in Service Management and Leadership and Principles of the International Tourism System. Her research interests are in student experiences, career paths of teaching focused academics and innovative teaching practices (such as gamification).

I am interested in ways to promote recovery in the brain following neurological injury, with specific expertise in the field of exercise and its impact on neurotrophic factors, including brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). My experience includes the physiological bases of exercise, exercise prescrition and clinical physiotherapy practice in the field of neurological recovery including people post stroke.

Professor MacKenzie works in the fields of environmental economics, environmental policy design, and political economics. He joined the University of Queensland in September 2012, after more than five years at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has published research articles on the economics of pollution markets, environmental auctions, and contests in outlets such as the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Public Choice, Environmental and Resource Economics. His work has won the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Award for outstanding publication in the journal Environmental and Resource Economics. He is a Co-editor of Resource and Energy Economics and his current research focuses on environmental offsets, resource conflict, and the political economy of environmental regulation.

His passion is understanding how environmental markets operate. He has led numerous interdisciplinary teams in investigating environmental markets in collaboration with policymakers at the council, state, and federal level. His funding has been supported by the ARC (Discovery Project), Agrifutures, Rural Economies Centre of Excellence, Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government, and the Australian Federal Government’s $5bn Future Drought Fund (Regional Drought Resilience Plan).

His teaching has connected students’ learned knowledge with real-world (and interdisciplinary) policy outcomes, with impact recognised by an Australian Awards for University Teaching (2021), UQ Citation (2020) and Commendation (2019) for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, BEL Excellence in Education Award, and 10 School of Economics Teaching Awards. He has been recognised because of his creative leadership in pedagogy: in the way he teaches and supports learning. He leads a transformation in how students engage in class and are inspired to learn by using novel learning techniques that include: storytelling and unusual contextualisation; adopting multiple strategies to expand students’ deep learning capabilities; and creating scenarios where learning is applied authentically. In doing so his students become critical and deep thinkers capable of transferring their knowledge beyond the classroom to help address society’s problems. He is the Director of Teaching and Learning within the School of Economics.

He was appointed to the Multisector Reference Group Committee, Queensland Government, (2021-) to advise the Queensland Government on revisions to the Biodiversity Offset Framework and has co-authored on the Australia Academy of Science response to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) on the Independent Review of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs). He often speaks at industry-government-academic events regarding environmental markets and has a strong media presence of his own research and expert advice on environmental markets.

I am currently a senior lecturer and an ARC DECRA fellow at the University of Queensland, where I conduct research in the field of Information Retrieval. My research focuses on efficient and effective representations for large-scale search engines, including indexing, compression, and retrieval. I am also interested in understanding how to measure improvements in the end-to-end search pipeline, including system-oriented effectiveness measurements and user behaviour analysis. I have a broad interest in empirical experimentation, operating systems, data structures, and algorithms.

Previous Positions

• From February 2020 to January 2022 I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on an ARC discovery project with Professor Alistair Moffat at the University of Melbourne.
• I completed my PhD at RMIT University under the guidance of Professor J. Shane Culpepper and Professor Falk Scholer.

MBBS(Hons), FRACP — Specialist Respiratory and Lung Transplant Physician

Dr John Mackintosh graduated from The University of Queensland in 2011 with honours. He trained in respiratory medicine in Queensland, before completing an interstitial lung disease clinical fellowship at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London — one of the world's leading interstitial lung disease (ILD) referral centres.

He returned to Brisbane in 2019 as a Respiratory & Lung Transplant Physician with the Queensland Lung Transplant Service at The Prince Charles Hospital, and as an academic at The University of Queensland, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in recognition of his clinical and research contribution to ILD. He leads The Prince Charles Hospital's ILD service and his research work centres on ILD, with particular expertise in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, familial pulmonary fibrosis and the genetic underpinnings of fibrotic lung disease.

Alongside his clinical practice, he co-chairs the Queensland Statewide ILD Multidisciplinary Meeting and is founder and chair of the Australasian ILD Genetics Multidisciplinary Meeting. Internationally, he was a Co-Lead for the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation's first consensus statement on short telomere syndrome and lung transplantation, and is first author of the current Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand position statement on the treatment of IPF and progressive pulmonary fibrosis.

Dr Stephanie MacMahon is a Senior Lecturer in the Science of Learning and in Arts Education, teaching in both the ITE and post-graduate programs in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, and is the program coordinator for the Science of Learning Field of Study. She has over 20 years’ experience as a P-12 educator and school leader, and draws on this experience to support her students in understanding how research can be used meaningfully in educational practice.

Stephanie is also the Co-Founder and Program Director of the UQ Learning Lab: a group of multi-disciplinary researchers, educators, and industry partners who collaborate to transform learning, teaching and training in diverse school and post-school contexts through the science of learning. Her research within the UQ Learning Lab are in human connection and learning, and in understanding how to effectively mobilise insights from the Science of Learning into practice in diverse educational and workplace learning contexts, collaborating with partners to develop, implement and evaluate contextually relevant, actionable, scalable and sustainable solutions to real-world teaching, learning and training needs. Stephanie is a member of the UNESCO Science of Learning Alliance.

Her teaching and leadership in the Science of Learning have recently been recognised with a UQ Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2025), an Australian Council for Educational leaders (ACEL) National Excellence in Leadership Award, and the ACEL Miller-Grassie Award for Outstanding Leadership in Education (2025).

Stephanie collaborates widely with multi-disciplinary researchers on science of learning projects using a range of methodologies.

Harrison is a medicinal chemist with a research focus on bioactive peptides as therapeutics and molecular tools. He completed his Honours and PhD at UQ in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences where he developed synthetic peptide-based vaccine candidates against a range of targets including Group A Streptococcus and small molecule substances of abuse in the laboratory of Professor Istvan Toth. He is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the Muttenthaler group at IMB where he is involved in several programs of peptide-based drug discovery and pharmacological probe development.

Dr Barbara Maenhaut's research interests are in combinatorial design theory and graph theory.

She received her PhD from the University of Queensland in 1999. Her current research projects are in the fields of:

• Graph decompositions
• Latin squares and perfect one-factorisations

I am an art historian and art writer. My research specialisms and interests include photography and contemporary art; artists' films and video installations; documentary practices; the visual cultures of labour; the history of illustrated magazines and Australian colonial photography. For the last ten years I have researched and taught in the fields of modern, contemporary art, and visual culture. I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary theoretical methodologies drawing from art history, sociology, and political theory.

My first monograph, Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary (Columbia University Press: 2015) explores the work of contemporary artists such as Hito Steyerl, Joachim Koester, Walid Raad, Jean-Luc Moulène, and Anri Sala. I have published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and exhibition catalogue essays. My articles have been published in leading international journals such as Oxford Art Journal, Third Text, Afterall, Philosophy of Photography, Photography and Culture, Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, and History of Photography. My writing has recenttly appeared in Labour History (2025 and 2026) and in the French open-source journal Photographica (2026).

My second monograph brings to light the forgotten histories of Australian South Sea Islanders. Between 1863 and 1907, more than 60,000 men and women from Melanesian islands were forced by trickery or fraud to work in the burgeoning sugar industry of Queensland. The history of their representation in art and visual culture has never been adequately studied. The book fills this significant gap in the scholarship. It includes a critical examination of untapped photographic archives and discusses contemporary Australian artists’ attempt to address this traumatic and often unspoken history. The monograph invigorates debates in the field of photography and visual culture studies, racial capitalism and colonial studies, Indigenous and Pacific studies, and in social and economic history.

I received a B.A. in Communication and Media and an Honours in Film Studies from the University of Bologna. I was awarded my M.A. in 2008, and my PhD in the History of Art in 2012, both from the University College London.

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD students. Research topics I would be particularly interested in supervising include: contemporary art and, in particular, documentary and screen-based practices; histories and theories of photography; histories of exhibition-making and spectatorship; colonial photography in Australia and the Asia-Pacific; the visual cultures and politics of illustrated magazines and activists' pamphlets; Marxism and the Frankfurt School thinkers; artists and curators' use of AI. Potential applicants should contact me directly to discuss their proposals.

I’m interested in modelling consumer choice to uncover the hidden patterns in our decision-making. I’m passionate about public transport, sustainable travel and tourism, mobility in cities, consumers’ use of technology, and societal wellbeing.

My research has been published in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, the Journal of Choice Modelling, Frontiers in Psychology, the Journal of Service Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, and Physiotherapy Research International. During my PhD I developed models of complex decision-making in public transport and air travel using latent variable structural choice models, identifying patterns in consumer heterogeneity attributable to the choice context and explaining these patterns through behavioural decision theory.

Within the UQ Business School, I am the Major Convenor for Business Analytics in the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce programs.

I am the Programme Chair for the International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC2026).