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I am an agricultural biotechnologist specialising in applications of nanotechnology to improve animal health. My PhD was a part of a multi-disciplinary research project facilitated by the Queensland Government Research Partnerships at QAAFI. This research, for the first time, established silica nanomaterials as carriers and self-adjuvants for vaccine development and delivery against Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus. As a Research Fellow at QAAFI, I am leading the research using RNA interference technology and material science to develop sustainable solutions for real-world problems like sheep blowfly and lice-infestation.

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Miriam Moeller (PhD, MBA) is an Associate Professor in International Business at The University of Queensland Business School, Australia. Her research, published in top academic and practitioner journals, explores how effective procurement, inclusion, and mobilisation of talent support firm internationalisation. As a multi-generational expatriate with experience across 5 continents, her research examines the global work relocations of globally mobile talent and their accompanying family members. She has a special interest in marginalised and minority communities, including that of LGBTIQA+ expatriates, women expatriates, and neurodivergent expatriates. In recent years, Miriam’s focus has been on championing the development of neuroinclusive workplace practices, both in Australia and globally. She is a member of the UQ Disability Inclusion Advocacy Network and serves as Associate Editor at the International Journal of Management Reviews and editorial review board member at the Journal of Global Mobility.

Dr Gunn-Helen Moen was awarded her PhD on the "Genetic and environmental etiology of glucose metabolism and cardiometabolic traits during pregnancy and in later life" in 2019 from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo. After finishing her PhD, she was awarded a Mobility/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the Research Council of Norway and as part of that fellowship she spent two years as a visiting academic at the University of Queensland. She is currently an ARC DECRA fellow at IMB. Her research focus is on using Mendelian randomization to investigate the possible causal effects of maternal environmental exposures during pregnancy on offspring outcomes.

Emeritus Professor Gabriël A. Moens, JD (Leuven), LLM (Northwestern), PhD (Sydney), GCEd (Queensland), MBA (Murdoch), MAppL (COL), FCIArb, CIArb, FAIM, FCL, FAAL is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Queensland. He served as Pro Vice Chancellor and as a Dean at Murdoch University. He also served as Head, Graduate School of Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia.. Professor Moens is a past winner of a University of Queensland Excellence in Teaching Award. In 1999, he received the Australian Award for University Teaching in Law and Legal Studies. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Trade and Business Law Review. In 2003, the Prime Minister of Australia awarded him the Australian Centenary Medal for services to education. He has taught extensively in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, P R China, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. He is co-author/co-editor of The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia Annotated (9th ed), LexisNexis Butterworths, 2016; Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Resources Sector: An Australian Perspective, Springer, 2015; Jurisprudence of Liberty (2nd ed), LexisNexis, 2011; Commercial Law of the European Union, Springer, 2010; and International Trade and Business: Law, Policy and Ethics (2nd ed), Routledge/Cavendish, 2006.

Peyman Moghadam is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland (UQ). He is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61 as well as Professor (Adjunct) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He leads the Embodied AI Research Cluster at CSIRO Data61, working at the intersection of Robotics and Machine learning. He is also the Spatiotemporal AI portfolio Leader at the CSIRO's Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Future Science Platform and oversees research and development of MLAI methods for scientific discovery in spatiotemporal data streams. In 2022, he served as a Visiting Professor at ETH Zürich. In 2019, he held a Visiting Scientist appointment at the University of Bonn. Peyman has led several large-scale multidisciplinary projects and won numerous awards, including CSIRO's Julius Career Award, National, and Queensland state iAward for Research and Development, CSIRO’s Collaboration Medal and the Lord Mayor’s Budding Entrepreneurs Award. His current research interests include self-supervised learning for robotics, embodied AI, 3D multi-modal perception (3D++), robotics, and computer vision.

Dr Nasir Moghaddar is a senior lecturer and researcher in biostatistics and statistical genetics at the University of Queensland. He has over 15 years of experience in teaching and research, and is the author of more than 50 scientific papers in applied statistical genetics and genomics. Nasir’s research interests are biostatistics, understanding the genetic background of complex traits and diseases, genetic epidemiology and developing of genomic risk prediction in improving the benefits of genomics in health.

Dr. Saeed Mohammadian is a postdoctoral research fellow in Transport Engineering. His primary research is on understanding freeway traffic flow dynamics and their safety implication with a special focus on the role of human factors. As part of his doctoral work, he has conducted critical meta-research on the state-of-the-art of macroscopic traffic flow modelling, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The central part of his doctoral thesis develops unifiable mathematical models of traffic flow dynamics and rear-end crashes and presents new insight into the role of human factors on complex traffic phenomena and traffic safety.

His main work at UQ involves conducting research on driver interactions with connected and automated vehicles and studying the implications for both congestions and crashes. He is currently involved in several research projects related to freeway traffic flow modelling and control and safety assessment. His research outcomes can be explicitly utilized in traffic control research for moving towards faster and safer roads.

Dr Yousuf Mohammed completed his PhD in pharmaceutics and skin drug delivery under the guidance of Associate prof Heather Benson, Prof Michael Roberts and Associate prof Tarl Prow. He has been working within the field of skin delivery at the Therapeutics Research Centre, University of Queensland - School of Medicine since 2012. His current research includes managing a five-year (2018-2023) US FDA funded project titled Bioequivalence of Topical products: Elucidating the Thermodynamic and Functional Characteristics of Compositionally Different Topical Formulations as a Principle Investigator and managing the five-year project (2014-2019) Characterization of Critical Quality Attributes for Semisolid Topical Drug Products as a Co-investigator. These projects aims to improve current regulatory guidelines for topical and transdermal semisolid products. Over the last 6 years, his work has been focused on skin penetration and skin toxicology of drugs and xenobiotics including nanoparticulate materials.

Dr Devi Mohan, an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health is a physician with a specialization in Community Medicine and holds a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education.

Dr Mohan leads the public health teaching of the MD program and serves as the theme lead for Advocate for Health Improvement. She has extensive experience teaching in medical programs in both India and Malaysia, including integrated medical programs, and has mentored many medical graduates in medical research.

Dr Mohan's research primarily focuses on dementia epidemiology, prevention, and care in low and middle-income countries. Her work has been published in high impact public health and dementia journals. Currently, she leads various dementia research projects in Malaysia, Vietnam, and India. Working with various international research teams, Dr Mohan has secured research grants totalling over AUD 5 million from prestigious funding bodies such as NIHR UK, Australian Research Council, and MRC UK. She has mentored many PhD students and post-doctoral fellows, contributing to the development of the next generation of public health researchers.

As a member of the NIHR Global Health Group on Dementia Prevention and Enhanced Care (DePEC), Dr Mohan collaborates with international experts to develop approaches for reducing dementia risk and establishing sustainable care pathways. She has extensive international collaborations with partners in the UK, India, Malaysia, South-East Asia, focusing on projects related to aging and dementia. Dr Mohan is a member of Global Dementia Prevention Program, and the Southeast Asia Dementia Research Network.

Prior to her current role, Dr Mohan served as an Associate Professor in Global Public Health at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. She has also worked with the Department of Health, Kerala, India, where she was actively involved in primary health care and delivery of health programs.

Dr Mollee practices as a consultant haematologist in clinical and laboratory haematology at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and is Associate Professor with the University of Queensland Medical School.

Having trained in Brisbane and Toronto, Dr Mollee has developed an international reputation studying amyloidosis and the plasma cell dyscrasias. He holds appointments with the Medical Scientific Advisory Group of Myeloma Australia, Australian Amyloidosis Network, National Blood Cancer Taskforce and is a member of the AACB Monoclonal Gammopathy Working Group and the International Kidney & Monoclonal Gammopathy Research Group. He is a past Chairman of the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group (ALLG) and current Chair of the Australian Amyloidosis Network. He heads the Myeloma Service as well as the Queensland Amyloidosis Centre which runs one of the few clinics in Australia dedicated exclusively to the care of patients with amyloidosis.

Dr Jayson Moloney is a colorectal surgeon and gastrointestinal endoscopist consulting and operating across Brisbane's north.

Jayson's clinical special interests include colorectal cancer, minimally-invasive (laparoscopic and robotic surgery) and complex pelvic surgery. He practices across the full breadth of colorectal surgery, including both benign and malignant disorders such as diverticular disease, inflammatory bowel disease, rectal prolapse and haemorrhoids.

In addition to private practice, Jayson also holds appointments as a colorectal surgeon at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and is a Senior Lecturer with the University of Queensland.

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Frank’s research interests include political behaviour, political communication, voter attitudes, behaviour change, leadership and evidence-based policy. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Leadership Quarterly, European Journal of Political Research, Political Psychology, Public Administration, West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Evidence and Policy, China Quarterly and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. His 2017 book The Wealth Paradox (co-authored with Jolanda Jetten and published by Cambridge University Press) has also attracted international attention, and is now widely regarded as having successfully debunked common myths about populist radical right parties and their voter base.

Dr. Md. Moksedul Momin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia, and concurrently serves as a faculty member at Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Bangladesh. He earned his PhD in statistical genetics from the University of South Australia (UniSA), following a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM, 2011) and a Master of Science in Animal Breeding and Genetics (2014) from CVASU.

His research focuses on statistical genetics and genomic prediction of complex traits and diseases. Dr. Momin has contributed important methodological advances, including developing approaches for analyzing cross‑ancestry genetic architecture. He is also the author of several widely used R packages—r2redux, R2ROC, MSML, and GxEprs—which have gained broad recognition within the genetics research community.

Literacy, teacher education, literacy and intellectual disability, teaching and learning in higher education

Associate Professor Karen Moni has had extensive experience teaching and researching in the field of English and literacy education. Her research interests include adolescent literacy and literature, literacy and young adults with intellectual disabilities, teacher education and teaching and learning in higher education. Dr Moni is also the Exectiuve Director of Latch-On a research and teaching program focusing on literacy and young adults with intellectual disabilities and continues to research in the area of intellectual disability

Dr Moni holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science in 2014 from the University of Cambridge, UK followed by postdoctoral training at the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney Vice-chancellor fellowship, and Senior Data Scientist at the University of Oxford. Dr Moni then joined UQ in 2021. He also worked as an assistant professor and lecturer in two universities (PUST and JKKNIU) from 2007 to 2011. He is an Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision & Machine learning, Digital Health Data Science, Health Informatics and Bioinformatics researcher developing interpretable and clinical applicable machine learning and deep learning models to increase the performance and transparency of AI-based automated decision-making systems.

His research interests include quantifying and extracting actionable knowledge from data to solve real-world problems and giving humans explainable AI models through feature visualisation and attribution methods. He has applied these techniques to various multi-disciplinary applications such as medical imaging including stroke MRI/fMRI imaging, real-time cancer imaging. He led and managed significant research programs in developing machine-learning, deep-learning and translational data science models, and software tools to aid the diagnosis and prediction of disease outcomes, particularly for hard-to-manage complex and chronic diseases. His research interest also includes developing Data Science, machine learning and deep learning algorithms, models and software tools utilising different types of data, especially medical images, neuroimaging (MRI, fMRI, Ultrasound, X-Ray), EEG, ECG, Bioinformatics, and secondary usage of routinely collected data.

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Gloria is a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering and an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow at UQ’s School of Chemical Engineering. She applies multiscale simulation techniques, combining molecular simulations with macroscopic physics-based modelling, to address energy and environmental challenges. Working at the interface of applied mathematics and engineering, she develops predictive models to understand complex system behaviour and computational methods to enhance simulation tools across chemical engineering applications.

Her expertise spans membrane science, nanocomposites, transport phenomena, and chemical kinetics, with a focus on adsorption, diffusion, and permeation in nanocomposites, as well as reaction engineering of complex chemical systems. She integrates Bayesian statistics, physical modelling, computational chemistry, and experimental validation to optimize carbon capture technologies for climate change mitigation and advance the development of sustainable chemical processes.