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Dr Sarah Reedman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre group within the UQ Child Health Research Centre. Sarah is passionate about enabling participation of young people with disabilities in sports and active recreation. She is interested demonstrating how paediatric physiotherapists, occupational therapists and exercise physiologists are well-placed to deliver effective physical activity promotion interventions in young people with disabilites. Sarah is also involved in the conduct of a large, multi-site randomized controlled trial of an intensive functional goal-directed motor training intervention in children with bilateral cerebral palsy (Hand Arm Bimanual Intensive Training Including Lower Extremity [HABIT-ILE]).

Sarah is experienced in the following research methods:

• Design, conduct and administration of randomized controlled trials (including multi-site trials)
• Cross-sectional and cohort studies
• Validation of rehabilitation outcome measures
• Objective measurement of physical activity behaviours, tri-axial accelerometry

Sarah is available as an associate supervisor for HDR students.

Dr. Matt Reeves completed his PhD degree in theoretical physics from the University of Otago (New Zealand) in 2016. During his PhD, he worked in the field of vortex dynamics and turbulence in quantum fluids, under the supervision of Dr. Ashton Bradley.

In 2017, he joined the group of Prof. Matthew Davis at the University of Queensland as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, studying far-from-equilibrium physics in exciton-polariton and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates.

Navin Sam Regi (Sam), is an award-winning documentary producer and digital storytelling expert with a decade of experience in creating socially impactful narratives. His work, rooted in capturing untold stories and amplifying marginalised voices, spans across community-focused journalism, healthcare documentation, and innovative oral history projects.

His storytelling expertise extends to projects like My Little Sunshine, documenting grief in partnership with Queensland's only children’s hospice, and the groundbreaking First 100 Days of Voluntary Assisted Dying project with Metro North and QUT. Sam is also the founder of Talking Stories, specialising in personalised storytelling, with high-profile collaborations such as the Indian Diaspora Oral History Project with the National Library of Australia.

As a Teaching Associate at the University of Queensland, Sam also brings his industry experience to academia, where he coordinates courses in social justice storytelling and media strategies. His MPhil research explored process journalism in aged care, a topic on which he has published.

Prof Peter Reher is a German and Australian citizen, living in Australia since 2009. He is a registered dentist and a specialist in Oral Surgery with AHPRA.

Peter lived in Brazil for many years and graduated in Dentistry at PUC-Minas Faculty of Dentistry in 1987. He subsequently completed his residency and Master’s in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in 1992. He worked in Brazil as an OMF Surgeon for 20 years, both in private practice and hospitals, in oral surgery, implantology, trauma and orthognathic surgery. Between 1995 and 1999, Peter obtained his PhD at the Eastman Dental Institute in London, funded by a grant from the Brazilian Research Council (CNPq).

Prof Reher worked as a senior lecturer and associate professor in Anatomy at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) between 1989 and 2009. In 2004 Peter joined the PUC-Minas University as an associated professor, where he was involved in training specialists in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology. Peter was one of the coordinators of the Brazilian College of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (affiliated with the IAOMS).

Prof Reher moved to Australia in 2009 as the Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Griffith University School of Dentistry and Oral Health, where he was the discipline lead in the area for 14 years. He taught regularly in UG and PG programs and was the Program Director of the Master of Clinical Dentistry (Oral Surgery). He was the Deputy Head of School for five years and the Clinical Director of the Griffith Dental Clinic for another five years. Peter has chaired several committees and implemented the first clinic accreditation towards the Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.

Peter has published several articles and textbooks throughout his career, having presented his work at many international conferences. He has supervised several research projects, including PhD’s, Master’s, Honours, and Specialist’s thesis. Peter also received awards from the Royal Society of Medicine, University College London Medical School and the International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Peter is the Director of the Oral Health Alliance, a partnership between Metro North Health and UQ’s School of Dentistry. He is also a Professor of Oral Surgery at the School of Dentistry, University of Queensland. Peter is married, has two children, and enjoys cooking, sailing, and spending time with his family.

Natasha is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Child Health Research Centre. Natasha leads the Perinatal and Early Life Exposures Research Group.

The Perinatal and Early Life Exposures Group is dedicated to uncovering the foundational influences on lifelong health and wellbeing. Their research focuses on the critical impact of environmental, nutritional, substance exposures, and psychosocial factors during the perinatal and early childhood periods on long-term health outcomes. By advancing our understanding of these early exposures, they aim to inform public health strategies, improve clinical practices, and ultimately enhance the health and well-being of future generations. Their work contributes to reducing the burden of chronic diseases and mental health disorders, promoting healthier developmental outcomes, intergenerational health benefits and fostering resilient communities.

Simon Reid is a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland. He is a keen advocate of One Health and the application of systems thinking approaches to understand and improve interventions for wicked zoonotic disease problems at the human-animal-ecosystem interface such as leptospirosis, brucellosis, human-bat interactions and antimicrobial resistance. His research focuses on understanding how to improve multisectoral governance, planning and implementation of responses to manage One Health problems. He delivers postgraduate courses in systems thinking, communicable disease control and One Health.

Dr Natasha Reid is an Epidemiologist and Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine. Natasha has a specific interest in increasing quality of life and healthy life expectancy, and works across epidemiological, intervention and dissemination projects identifying and addressing frailty in a number of settings.

Natasha conducted her PhD at the School of Public Health, examining the association of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with the physical functioning of older adults, utilising cross-sectional, longitudinal and intervention studies. Since then, Natasha's work has focused primarily on frailty, investigating its development/aetiology, measurement, outcomes, and interventions strategies. Natasha currently coordinates or is involved in five ongoing research projects, including the feasibility and importance of measuring frailty in patients assessed for kidney transplantation, understanding epigenetic and other deep phenotyping changes in patients who have undergone a kidney transplant, and testing if comprehensive geriatric assessment is feasible and effective at improving frailty and attainment of patient goals in patients with (1) solid organ and haematological malignancies, (2) severe mental illness, and (2) vascular disease.

Natasha also has a significant role in researcher development, having supervised 7 undergraduate or post-graduate coursework research students, with a further 3 PhD students and 7 Geriatric Medicine Advanced Trainees currently under supervision. Natasha is chair of the CHSR EMCR committee, and represents EMCR interests as part of the organising committee of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research annual general meeting, in Brisbane 2022.

Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology, Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Director of ALES-Austrian Center for Law Enforcement Sciences and was Associate Dean (2010-2014) of the School of Law at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Besides her academic career, Susanne has taken an active role in consultancies, e.g. she acted as representative of the Permanent Mission of The Holy See to the International Organisations during the preparations of the UN Convention on Transnational Crime in Vienna. She is currently member of the Advisory Board of the Section ‘Fundamental Rights and Interdisciplinary Exchange’ of the Austrian Judges‘ Association, of the Criminal Law Commission at the Austrian Chamber of Lawyers, of the Austrian Security Police Academy’s Advisory Board at the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Recently, she was appointed member of the Board advising the Austrian Minister of Justice in matters of ministerial instructions to be given to prosecution authorities.

Susanne’s main research fields within the area of criminal law, criminal procedure and police law are law enforcement and fundamental rights (esp. surveillance, interception and other data collection methods), tasks and responsibilities of the executive and the judiciary in law enforcement as well as selected areas of crime, eg smuggling of migrants, trafficking in human beings, computer and cybercrime, corruption in the private and public sector, (fraudulent) abuse of social services, criminal organisations. She has published 14 books and more than 100 articles in these fields.

Saphira is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sustainable Finance at The University of Queensland, Australia, and has a PhD in Finance. She is a leading scholar in the field of corporate Paris Compliance measurement and is a leading academic involved in developing science-based emission reduction methodologies.

Saphira's research focuses on tools to measure and verify the efficacy of decarbonisation commitments by corporations and financial institutions, a cross-disciplinary research area of increasing global relevance. During her 4 month secondment at Princeton University in 2019 she co-developed the Rapid Switch Australia project, as part of the Princeton-led Rapid Switch initiative. She now leads the Are You Paris Compliant program, composed of academics from UQ, Oxford and Princeton, which evaluates the alignment of companies and investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement. Saphira is a member of the Technical Working Group of the Science Based Targets initiative for the oil and gas sector, where she continues to advise and develop appropriate methodologies for science-based targets, as well as the Scientific Advisory Group. She has also been a key contributor to the EU climate benchmarking regulation, which her contribution to quantifying the benchmark is still intact after several revisions and is one of the key outcomes of the new regulation. Saphira's research is cross-disciplinary and she has published in high impact journals such Nature Climate Change and Nature Communications, as well as several other highly ranked academic journals. Her 2022 article in Nature Communications has gained global attention and led to a collaborative project with Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages one of the largest funds globally, to evaluate the steel sector on their Paris Compliance. She has ongoing collaborations with numerous industry partners and is a CI on six successful grants (total $780,074.26).

Saphira has received several awards; most recently she received a prestigious Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council of over $430,000 AUD for 2024-2027. She was awarded the UQ Business School Excellence in PRME award; she received the “Best Paper Award 2021” from the highly ranked journal Business & Society, and she received the “UQBS Excellence in Innovation” Award for co-leading Australia’s first Carbon Literacy course. She also won the UN Responsible Investment’s essay competition in 2018 (on the integration of responsible investment in financial education); the UQ Business School 2017 Teaching Award (Tutor) and she was a recipient of the prestigious International Post-graduate Research Scholarships for her PhD in 2014. Saphira is passionate about teaching; her teaching evaluations are consistently outstanding, she has participated in four Student-Staff Partnership projects, designed a core first year finance course, has publised two UQ pressbooks and has been actively supervising honours, Masters and PhD students, as well as post-doctorals and student industry projects. She is also a regular panellist at conferences and forums such as the European Commission Conference on Sustainable Finance and the Princeton E-ffiliates Retreat.

Saphira is also the selected UQ academic staff representative for Unisuper (188/211 votes) since 2020; she intensively coached a team of UQ students that won second place in the Global Business Challenge in 2019 ($15,000); she advocated for, and integrated, Environmental, Social and Governance factors in the Student Management Investment Fund and served as ESG advisor prior to co-leading the fund. She serves as a regular reviewer for the top-journals Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability and Nature Communications.

Marguerite Renouf BSc(Hons)/BA, PhD (Env Man) UQ is a Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering's Water-Energy-Carbon Research Group (www.chemeng.uq.edu.au/water-energy-carbon).

She has worked in environmental research at UQ for 20 years, with a particular interest in the environmental evaluation of production systems and urban systems using environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), urban metabolism evaluation and eco-efficiency analysis. She is interested how we can produce and consume with less drain on the environment.

Since completing a PhD in 2011, she has driven a stream of research that evaluates the environmental performance of agri-based product supply chains and products (bio-fuels, bio-materials, food, beverages) using LCA. She has collaborated with industries and researchers in Australia and overseas to develop LCA tools for industry to support the identification of more environmentally-friendly production practices and processes.

Prior to this, her research was concerned with eco-efficiency in manufacturing industries (food processing, metal industries, retail and tourism sectors) and was a long-term contributor to UQ’s Working Group for Cleaner Production (now operating as the Eco-Efficienc Group), and its Director for three years (2009-2012).

Currently, Marguerite is a lead researcher with the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, develop methods and metrics for quantifiying the water water-sensitive performance of Australian cities, using urban metabolism approaches. In this work she collaborates cloesely with urban planners, water manager and architects.

The School of Education is one of the most productive and high profile schools of education in Australia.

Professor Peter Renshaw's research has focussed on learning and teaching processes both at school and tertiary level. With a team of colleagues in the School of Education at UQ, he is currently investigating the quality of teaching and assessment practices in schools across Queensland. In two current ARC projects, with his co-researchers (Dr Ray Brown and Dr Elizabeth Hirst) he is investigating how teachers group and label students, and the effects of these practices on learning outcomes. These projects are framed by a sociocultural theory of education that foregrounds the social and cultural construction of knowledge and identity, and the responsibility of educators to create challenging, inclusive and supportive learning contexts for diverse groups of students. Professor Renshaw was President and Secretary of Australian Association for Research in Education and a member of the Executive for over a decade (1991-2002). He currently is on the International Advisory Board of CICERO Learning, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has active collaborations with European researchers in the Netherlands and Sweden, studying how teachers deal with student diversity and how they provide inclusive contexts for learning in multicultural classrooms.

I am a genetic epidemiologist specialising in the genetics of neurodegenerative diseases, with a particular focus on Parkinson’s disease, chronic pain, and other age-related conditions. I lead a dynamic team of scientists dedicated to understanding how genetic and environmental factors influence neurodegeneration, brain health, and related health outcomes. My research is interdisciplinary, integrating advanced statistical genetics, bioinformatics, and data science to unravel disease mechanisms, improve patient stratification, and identify potential therapeutic targets.

In 2020, I founded the Australian Parkinson’s Genetics Study (APGS), now the largest Parkinson’s cohort in Australia with over 10,000 participants. This landmark study has positioned Australia as a key contributor to global Parkinson’s genetics research. I am also actively involved in the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2), where I contribute to large-scale data analysis and work within the underrepresented populations working group to enhance diversity in genetic research worldwide.

Committed to training the next generation of researchers, I have supervised over 16 students, including several PhD candidates who have gone on to successful careers in academia and industry. Two of my recent PhD graduates received the Outstanding Thesis Award, and another received the AIPS Florey Next Generation Award.

I have published consistently in prominent journals, including Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, BRAIN, Biological Psychiatry, and SLEEP. To date, I have authored over 100 academic articles, which have been widely cited, and I have secured competitive funding from NHMRC, MRFF, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Shake It Up Australia Foundation, the US National Institutes of Health, and the Alzheimer’s Association. My work has been recognised with several prestigious awards, including the 2023 Al & Val Rosenstrauss Fellowship from the Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation, the 2021 Enrico Greppi International Migraine Research Award, and the 2024 Adele Green Emerging Leader Award from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. I am also a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, a program by the University of California San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin, which supports my commitment to promoting brain health equity worldwide.

April Reside is a lecturer in the School of the Environment and School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, affiliated with the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science.

Dr Reside's research encompasses ecology, conservation, and policy; investigating refuges and refugia; and recovery actions and their costs for Australia’s threatened species. April also works on conservation of woodland bird communities, the impact of climate change on biodiversity, and strategies for climate change adaptation. This work has involved applying conservation planning frameworks to identify spatial priorities for climate change adaptation for biodiversity and carbon sequestration.

April has a particular fascination of flying vertebrates, and has worked on bats on three continents and nine countries. She worked as a field ecologist for non-government organisations before her PhD on understanding potential impacts of climate change on Australian tropical savanna birds. She adapted species distribution modelling techniques to account for temporal and spatial variability in the distributions of highly vagile bird species. These dynamic species distribution models take into account species’ responses to fluctuations in weather and short-term climatic conditions rather than long-term climate averages. In her first postdoctoral position, Dr Reside modelled the distribution of c.1700 vertebrates across Australia at a fine resolution, and located the future location of suitable climate for all these species for each decade until 2085. From this, she identified hotspots across Australia where species were moving to in order to track their suitable climate, informing the IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change by the IUCN Species Survival Commission.

April has been involved in conservation of the Black-throated Finch for over 12 years, and is Chair of the Black-throated Finch Recovery Team. She has served on Birdlife Australia's Research and Conservation Committee and Threatened Species Committee; and the Science Committee for the Invasive Species Council.

Dr Felipe Retamal-Walter is a bilingual speech pathologist, audiologist, and early career academic at The University of Queensland. His research focuses on improving access, equity, and quality in communication and hearing healthcare across the lifespan. Drawing on over 15 years of experience across Chile and Australia, Felipe leads and contributes to international research projects funded nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of multiple academic recognitions, including top-cited article awards, international fellowships, and an invention patent for neonatal care technology.

Felipe uses mixed methods, implementation science, and participatory research approaches to co-design and evaluate practical, person-centred models of care. He works in partnership with families, students, clinicians, educators, and policymakers across many regions in Australia and the Pacific, North and South America, and Europe to develop tools, training, and systems that respond to the needs of underserved and diverse communities.

Felipe’s research themes include:

• Design, improvement, and evaluation of service delivery models to enhance access to timely and high-quality services. This is achieved by building honest, transparent, and long-lasting partnerships that consider all stakeholders as equal partners in care: clients, families, communities, healthcare professionals, and policymakers.
• Development and validation of implementation tools and measures to enhance person- and family-centred care, engagement, and shared decision-making in healthcare services. These tools promote equitable, community-based access for people across the lifespan in diverse regions and contexts.
• Implementation of culturally responsive education and training approaches to prepare health professions students for inclusive, digitally enabled, and person-centred practice in global and diverse contexts.

Felipe is an active member of the World Health Organization’s World Hearing Forum. He serves on The University of Queensland’s Cultural Inclusion Council and several research engagement themes. His work has informed national policy, clinical training programs, and service delivery innovations across Australia and other global settings. As an advocate for inclusion, Felipe also leads interdisciplinary initiatives that embed equity, diversity, and cultural responsiveness in healthcare and health education systems.

Dr Vicente Chua Reyes, Jr. is with the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia. He is co-editor of the Policy and Leadership Studies Working Papers Series of the National Institute of Education (Singapore). He is a Fellow of the Centre for Chinese Studies of the Republic of China (Taiwan), the National Taiwan Normal University and the University of Macau (China). He is also a Visiting Academic at the Institute of Education, University of London. Vicente has experience in educational settings spanning Australia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Spain, Italy, the UK and the US. Vicente used to be a Teaching/School Principal for an elementary and high school in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Vicente taught humanities in high school (Philippines and Singapore) and in elementary school levels (Philippines and Spain). Trained as a political scientist, his current research interests are in comparative education. Vicente also pursues inquiries into the application of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education, educational leadership, research methodologies as well as investigating the phenomenon of corruption alongside governance in educational reform.

Mr Alireza Rezvani is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. With over a decade of experience in mining and academia, he specialises in mineral processing, ore characterisation, and metallurgical test management. His research focuses on optimising copper and gold flotation while integrating sustainable practices to enhance plant performance and reduce environmental impact.

Expertise in Mineral Processing As a member of UQ’s Minerals and Energy Resources Processing group, Mr Rezvani's research aims to improve comminution, flotation, and separation efficiency. His work delves into the complexities of solution chemistry, colloid and surface interactions, and electrochemistry, advancing the development of eco-friendly reagents to optimise mineral separation. By leveraging innovative approaches, he enhances process efficiency while minimising the environmental footprint of extractive operations.

Ore Characterisation and Process Mineralogy Mr Rezvani is an expert in advanced ore characterisation techniques, including QEMSCAN, EBSD, EMP, TEM, Synchrotron XRD, and optical microscopy. His work provides valuable mineralogical insights that drive process optimisation strategies for base and precious metal sulphides (copper, nickel, gold), rare earth elements, iron ore, and PGMs. By integrating these techniques with metallurgical testwork, he develops targeted solutions to address complex processing challenges.

Computational Modelling and Molecular-Level Investigations A key aspect of Mr Rezvani’s research is computational modelling and simulation. Using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and first-principles calculations via VASP, he investigates interfacial interactions of sulphide minerals at the atomic scale. These molecular-level insights help elucidate the fundamental mechanisms governing flotation and metallurgical processes, ultimately contributing to the development of more efficient and sustainable extraction technologies.

Process Optimisation and Metallurgical Accounting Beyond fundamental research, Mr Rezvani applies data-driven methodologies to process optimisation and metallurgical accounting. His expertise in process control and design enables the maximisation of recovery rates, operational efficiency, and sustainability in mineral processing plants. By integrating computational and experimental approaches, he continues to drive advancements in metallurgical performance and environmentally responsible mineral extraction.