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Dr Ben Mos obtained his BSc (Hons) in Marine Science and Management from the University of New England, Armidale and his PhD from Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour. Ben is an Aboriginal man of Turrbal descent. Ben completed a 3-year postdoctoral position at the National Marine Science Centre, Coffs Harbour, refining technologies he developed during his PhD to grow sea urchins as seafood, supporting Australia’s nascent export industry. He was appointed as a lecturer in marine sciences at Southern Cross University in 2019 where Ben worked in the School of Environmental Sciences for 3 years before continuing his academic career at The University of Queensland.

Currently in the School of the Environment, Ben teaches into the Marine Biology major and undertakes research to understand how we (humans) are altering waterways and oceans and impacting the organisms that live there through climate change, pollution, and catching too many fish, and figures out ways we can solve these problems using Indigenous and international science approaches. Ben is based at Moreton Bay Research Station (MBRS) on beautiful Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) where he leads a marine lab with custom seawater systems, located near a unique group of globally important marine and freshwater habitats, ranging from coral reefs, mangroves, and freshwater swamps, and collaborates with First Nations Peoples, industry, government, other researchers, and students from Australia and overseas.

Julie joined the University of Queensland as an Associate Professor in May 2023. Julie participated in designing the Journeys Home Survey, a longitudinal study of Australians who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. Her current research revolves around a number of issues related to disadvantage in education, housing, health and labour economics. Specifically, she works on homelessness & precarious housing, substance use, incarceration, gender gaps in education, peer effects and female's labour market participation. Julie is developing a research agenda aiming to support the development of better opportunities for Indigenous Australians. This includes a project to evaluate the impact of Indigenous preferential procurement programs and a project on “Historical frontier violence: drivers, legacy and the role of truth-telling”, both supported by ARC funding.

Karin S. Moser's teaching and research focusses on human cooperation, communication and decision making, using both experimental and field study approaches. She is interested in understanding what characterises successful collaboration of individuals and teams across organisational and national borders, different cultural and social backgrounds, identities and interests, across situational and contextual constraints, and by various means and (digital) technologies.

For further information, check out the Moser Lab: www.karinmoser.net and her Orcid profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0120-9327

Dr Philip Mosley studied at the University of Oxford and obtained a masters degree in physiological sciences and a degree in medicine. He was also captain of the university boxing team and was awarded two full 'Blues'. He worked as a junior doctor in Manchester before moving to Australia to complete his specialist training in psychiatry.

Dr Mosley is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) and has completed an advanced certificate in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. As part of his training he also undertook a 2-year neuropsychiatry fellowship at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and the Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation (APCN) at the University of Queensland. Currently, Dr Mosley works as a member of the deep brain stimulation (DBS) team at St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane, runs a private neuropsychiatry practice and also provides a consultation-liaison psychiatry service to the neurology, medical and surgical wards. Dr Mosley's private practice is focussed on neurodegenerative disease, movement disorders and head injury.

Dr Mosley is an active clinician-scientist with appointments at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Queensland Brain Institute and CSIRO. He completed his PhD in neuroscience in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Michael Breakspear. He published eleven peer-reviewed manuscripts and received the UQ Dean's Award for outstanding thesis. Dr Mosley has been the chief investigator in a study of the neuropsychiatric effects of DBS for Parkinson’s disease, in a study of medicinal cannabis for Tourette’s syndrome, a lead investigator in a clinical trial of DBS for obsessive-compulsive disorder and anorexia nervosa, as well as a clinical fellow in a neuroimaging study of Alzheimer’s disease. He has won prizes from the RANZCP in Old Age Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and he has received research funding from the RBWH Foundation, the RANZCP Young Investigator Grant, Parkinson’s Queensland and Wesley Medical Research. Dr Mosley was awarded an ‘Advance Queensland’ Early Career Fellowship for his Parkinson's disease research and won the postgraduate medal from the Australian Society for Medical Research for findings arising from this project. In 2020, he won the Early Career Psychiatrist award from the RANZCP, which is presented to the fellow producing the most significant piece of research in the five years since fellowship. Currently Dr Mosley's research is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Medical Research Future Fund.

If you wish to contact Dr Mosley regarding a clinical matter, please do so via his neuropsychiatry clinic (Neurosciences Queensland) telephone: 07 3839 3688 or email: admin@nsqld.com.au.

Helen’s interest in immune cell interactions across the tissue landscape started during her Master’s and PhD with Dr. Ali Zaid at the Menzies Health Institute, Griffith University. Her PhD focused on defining the role of Interleukin-17 in virus-induced arthritis and exploring immunomodulation as a means of dampening synovial inflammation and damage. There, she was able to specialise in 3D imaging on optically-cleared tissues and high-dimensional flow cytometry. Helen received her PhD in 2022, before immediately starting a Postdoc position under Dr. Emma Gordon and Dr. Larisa Labzin at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland. Her current research focuses on vascular complications in acute and long COVID-19. Specifically, Helen is developing a novel triple-culture model under air-liquid interface to investigate endothelial dysfunction and explore potential therapeutics in COVID-19.

Antony Moulis is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Queensland, where he teaches and researches across the fields of architecture, urbanism and design. His current research focuses on productive cities and urban retrofit as drivers of positive community change, as featured in the jointly-authored book House, Precinct, Territory: Design Strategies for the Productive City (ORO, 2023) which addresses urban innovation and adaptation in the Asia-Pacific. He is internationally recognised for his work on architectural design practice and patterns of global knowledge transfer. Recent books include the co-authored John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense (Harvard University Press, 2023), which investigates strategies of ecological design in the international context; the sole-authored Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism (Routledge, 2021) a first account of the modern architect’s reception, encounters and global networks in Australasia, and the co-edited 4-volume anthology, Le Corbusier: Critical Concepts in Architecture (Routledge, 2018), a detailed historiographic survey of writings on, and by, the architect from 1920 to the present. Moulis' research through design involves active collaboration with industry and architectural and urban practices. Co-designed built and speculative projects highlighting micro-urban and resilience strategies for contemporary cities have been awarded, exhibited and published internationally including through journals such as Architecture Australia, The Architectural Review, and GA Houses: the recent books The New Queensland House (Thames & Hudson, 2022) and 33 Documents of Contemporary Australian Architecture (URO, 2022); and exhibited at 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Moulis oversaw UQ Architecture's participation in the Water Sensitive Cities CRC – a national team of academics and designers developing strategies for urban intensification and green infrastructure. His architectural writing and research spans professional and academic journals, including critical commentary on contemporary architecture.

Awards

The Productive Edge - phorm architecture+design with Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis

• 2025 Architecture Australia Prize for Unbuilt Work - Special Mention

One Room Tower - phorm architecture+design with Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis

• House of the Year, Brisbane Region, Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2018
• Brisbane Regional Commendation, Residential Architecture - Houses (Alterations and Additions), Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2018
• State Award, Residential Architecture - Houses (Alterations and Additions), Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2018

Blue Bower - phorm architecture+design with Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis

• Crossroads X Prize, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021
• Greater Brisbane Region Commendation, Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2023
• State Commendation for Small Project Architecture – Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2023

Memberships and Roles

Past President, Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) (2013-2015)

Member, Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)

Member, European Architectural History Network

Head of Architecture & Program Director, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture (2004-2008)

PhD project fully funded available now!

My main research area is the control of the spatial and spectral/temporal properties of light, particularly through complex disordered photonics materials such as multimode optical fibers, white paint, fog or biological tissues. The scattering of light through these materials inhibits many applications such as biomedical imaging and optical telecommunications, as it prevents light from being delivered to the desired position(s) at the desired time(s).

To achieve such level of control, I’m using a spatial light modulator in addition to some lab-made software techniques.

Recent research achievements:

• Time reversed optical waves by arbitrary vector spatiotemporal field generation : Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 5813 (2020)

This work is part of an international collaboration with Nokia Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Labs in Holmdel, NJ, USA with Dr Nicolas Fontaine and colleagues.

Lossless linear propagation of waves is linear in time, a principle which can be used to create time reversed waves. Such waves are “pre-scattered” spatio-temporal fields, which propagate through a complex medium (which induces scattering) and arrive after propagation as a desired target field. Time reversed waves were previously demonstrated for relatively lower frequency waves such as water waves, acoustics waves and micro waves. Many attempts have been made to extend these techniques into optics, however the much higher frequencies of optics do not able a direct measurement of the spatio-temporal optical field, flip its time response and send it backwards. A fully time reversed wave is a volumetric field (2 transverse and 1 longitudinal dimensions) with arbitrary amplitude, phase and polarization at every point in space and time. The creation of such fields has not been possible in optics.

We have demonstrated time reversed optical waves with a new device capable of independently controlling all light’s classical degrees of freedom simultaneously. Such device is capable of generating a sequence of arbitrary 2D spatial/polarisation wavefronts at a bandwidth-limited rate (4.4 THz). This new ability to manipulate the full field of an optical beam could be used to control both linear and nonlinear optical phenomena.

Youtube video article: 5 min abstract link which explains the motivation, the setup and some applications. A 75 minutes full technical presentation link presents in depth the results with pedagocial graphics.

The paper was published in "Time reversed optical waves by arbitrary vector spatiotemporal field generation", Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 5813 (2020) link

Press Release: Physicists create time reversed optical waves, by the UQ News media team link, reposted by different science websites including Phys.org

Conference presentation: I have presented these results at the CLEO virtual conference 2020, the video is accessible for free after registration on the CLEO page (paper SM2H.7) link

• Control of the temporal and polarization response of a multimode fibre: Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 5085 (2019)

With Dr Joel Carpenter, we have demonstrated how to control light delivery after propagation through a multimode fibre in the temporal domain. Because of the natural mode coupling within a multimode fibre, the impulse response of light gets temporally stretched, over multiple order of magnitudes (picoseconds to nanoseconds) compared to the initial pulse duration (usually ~100 femtoseconds). We notably demonstrated in this work how to maximize the impulse response at arbitrary delay(s), and how to minimize the impulse response, with polarization-resolution.

The results were published in “Control of the temporal and polarization response of a multimode fiber” Nature Communications 10 5085 (2019) link

Press Release: Cutting through fog with laser focus, by the UQ News media team link, reposted by different science websites including Phys.org

Conference presentation: I have presented these results at the CLEO virtual conference 2020, the video is accessible for free after registration on the CLEO page (paper SM1L.3) link

A former Australian Army officer, David’s career in the Australian Intelligence Corps provided wide-ranging experience and specialist qualifications in the intelligence and security domains. He served at the strategic, operational and tactical levels of command providing advice and support to commanders and decision makers both in Australia and deployed on operational service. The culmination of David’s military career came with his appointment as Commandant of Australia’s Defence Intelligence Training Centre in 2003. With command and management responsibility for 145 military and civilian staff, an operational remit for the provision of all intelligence training within Defence and an annual operating budget of $2.5m, this position represents the pinnacle of achievement for an Australian Intelligence Corps officer. David was awarded a Commander Training Command Commendation for his performance of duty in this role.

Since separating from the Army in 2006, David has established and maintained a successful consultancy focussed on the provision of intelligence and security expertise. Levering his knowledge and experience of working as a member of the Australian Intelligence Community for 30 years, David has provided consultancy services to several major Defence projects. He has also developed and delivered intelligence training to organisations including the Australian Federal Police, Victoria’s Office of Police Integrity and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.

David possesses a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Justice from the Queensland University of Technology and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland in which he researched investigative interviewing skill acquisition, transfer and application in the Queensland Police Service. In recent years he has been engaged by the University to design, develop and teach an undergraduate course in Global Security and Regulation and to design the criminology component of the Master of Cyber Security program. He is currently engaged as a lecturer in Cyber Criminology with research interests in countering the possession, production and distribution of Child Exploitation Material and the use of offensive cyber techniques in law enforcement.

Dr Jaqueline Moura Nadolny is a chemical engineer and food scientist focused on improving the quality and nutritional value of foods and beverages such as grains, flours, fruits, meat, plant-based alternatives, native ingredients and coffee. Her research combines food engineering, sensory science and processing to understand how composition and structure influence texture, flavour and consumer enjoyment.

Jaqueline works closely with industry and growers to develop practical tools and methods for assessing and enhancing food quality, adding value to agricultural products and supporting healthy, premium food innovation. She is also committed to student supervision and building strong research–industry partnerships.

Bryan is a graduate in medicine from the University of Queensland and holds a BA (Hons) degree in philosophy from the University of Western Australia. A medical specialist in psychiatry, he is a clinician researcher, who is Conjoint Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, and Director of Genetics at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research. His primary research interest is the molecular genetics of schizophrenia, and holds a MD degree (University of Queensland) in this field. Since 1990, he has conducted studies, with national and international collaborators, to identify susceptibility genes for this disorder. He is the recipient of grants from the Australian NHMRC and the US NIMH.

The primary research goal is to identify and functionally characterise susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and related disorders. A special focus is on the study of large collaborative samples and ethnically homogeneous populations. Key methodologies used in the lab include genome-wide association studies, next-generation sequencing, transcriptome profiling of post-mortem brain samples, neurocognitive and neuroimaging phenotyping and induced pluripotent stem cells.

Current areas of interest include pharmacogenomics of clozapine treatment response, whole exome sequencing focused on de novo mutations, and the neuroimmunology of schizophrenia