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Sarah is an occupational therapist with over 20 years clinical experience delivering specialised brain injury and complex neurological intervention across the continuum of care in Australia and the UK. Sarah is passionate about conducting research which enables improved rehabilitation outcomes and quality of life for people with brain injury. Her PhD, completed in 2018, investigated client-centred goal setting in the rehabilitation of community dwelling clients with acquired brain injury. The PhD provides insight into how clinicians may implement the client-centred goal setting process in practice to ensure that the meaningful and personally relevant goals of people with brain injury can be formulated, despite known barriers such as memory and self-awareness impairment.

Sarah is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) Education and Research Alliance, the University of Queensland. She also works in her private practice, to provide specialised brain injury rehabilitation services in Queensland, Australia.

Dr Josephine Previte’s research focuses on issues related to the use of qualitative and digital methodologies in marketing and health service research, gender and embodiment issues in social marketing practice and social technology influences on consumer behaviour.

She has worked on a broad range of social marketing projects including alcohol consumption, breastfeeding, breastscreening, blood donation and new technology use to deliver social marketing services. Her research interests in social marketing, technology and consumption contexts has led to publications in academic journals, book chapters and conference papers, and delivered findings to invited speaking engagements.

Gilbert Price is a Senior Lecturer in Palaeontology at The University of Queensland. He is a vertebrate palaeoecologist and geochronologist, particularly interested in the evolution and emergence of our planet’s unique ecosystems and fauna, and their response to prehistoric climatic changes. His major research focus has been on the development of palaeoecological models for Australia’s Cenozoic, especially the Quaternary megafauna. Critically, this also involves the production of reliably-dated records for the fossils that he studies. You can follow Gilbert on Twitter (@TheFatWombat) and read his reserach blog at www.diprotodon.com.

Lyndal Pritchard is a Clinical Associate Lecturer in the School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland and a PhD candidate. She holds professional registration through AHPRA as an oral health practitioner. Her work focuses on health services research, where she collaborates with leading experts in public oral health.

Lyndal is an active member of several UQ research groups, including the School of Dentistry Research Committee, Public Health Research group, and is part of the investigative team on the MRFF 2022 Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care project “Oral Health in Aged Care: Addressing Oral Health Inequity and Unmet Dental Care Needs in Vulnerable Populations.”

As a clinician-researcher, Lyndal is passionate about bridging the gap between research and practice. Her research is centred around implementation science, with a focus on researching system readiness, outcomes, and contextual factors when implementing evidence-based practices, programs, or healthcare policies in aged care for long-term sustainability. The findings from her research will provide valuable insights for healthcare professionals, policymakers, and caregivers, facilitating the development of more effective and tailored oral health assessments for this vulnerable population.

David M. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland (Australia), where he has chaired the Department of Classics and Ancient History. He has obtained 16 research fellowships in Australia, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. In 2026-7, he will be the Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Professor Pritchard is currently the lead chief investigator on a large project that is funded by the Australian Research Council. He is the author of Athenian Democracy at War (Cambridge University Press 2019), Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press 2013) and Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens (University of Texas Press 2015). Associate Professor Pritchard has edited The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux (Cambridge University Press 2024) and War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press 2010). He has co-edited Waging War in Fourth-Century Athens: New Appraisals (Routledge 2026) and Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World (Classical Press of Wales 2003). Associate Professor Pritchard has also published 68 journal articles and book chapters. He has an h-index of 22 and 1800 known citations. He has obtained the equivalent of 2.2 million Australian dollars in research funding. Associate Professor Pritchard speaks on radio and regularly writes for newspapers around the world. His 60 op.-eds have appeared in, among other outlets, Die Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Le Monde (France), Le Figaro (France), Ouest-France, Sud Ouest (France), The Conversation (Australia, France and Spain), Kathimerini (Greece), Inside Story (Greece), Scroll.in (India), The Age (Australia), The Australian and Politike (Brazil). Associate Professor Pritchard obtained his PhD in Ancient History from Macquarie University (Australia).

I am a Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland, specialising in systems immunology, data mining, and artificial intelligence. I have made significant contributions to vaccine and biomarker discovery and to defining the molecular basis of host-pathogen immunity.

My academic background includes a Diploma in Physics from La Sapienza University in Italy (2005) and a Ph.D. in Molecular Pathogenesis and Immunology from the University of Perugia, Italy (2011). I have received training from several leading institutions, including Imperial College, LSHTM, the University of Oxford, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and QIMR Berghofer, where I developed a solid foundation in the analysis of multi-omics data. My work has led to the identification of several malaria vaccine candidates currently under evaluation in pre-clinical trials in a project funded by the National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation. I recently received an NIH RO1 grant alongside PI Doolan to develop the first T cell-exclusive malaria vaccine.

My current research interests can be divided into five general themes:

1)System-based genomic approaches to inform the rational design of vaccines against complex human pathogens

2) Defining the molecular basis of immune heterogeneity between individuals using a system-based approach

2)Biomarker discovery for EBV-related cancers

3)Epigenetics and host immunity

4)Application of advanced data mining techniques in medical genomics

Dr John Prossor graduated from Leicester University UK in 1984. He holds a Masters degree with distinction in Skin Cancer Medicine from the University of Queensland . He is now a faculty member and a course co-ordinator for IMED7010 foundation thereputics on the UQ masters degree. This appointment cements his long standing interest in academia and the value of teaching and learning as two sides of the currency of knowledge and personal growth.

John has extensive experience of healthcare management, innovation and leadership roles over many years to include commissioning healthcare and project management.

His “outstanding contribution to medicine” was recognised in 2007 by the rare award of a Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners UK. He is an examiner for the RACGP.

John holds a Fellowship of the Skin Cancer College Australasia. This challenging achievement is widely regarded in the field of skin cancer medicine. He is a Blog author for the SCCA.

John believes in the power of networking and “hive intelligence” to solve complex cases. He has worked with peers and supported a number of research projects in the field in recent years and is a co-author on several papers . These include treatments for Rosacea , Dupuytren's contracture , Hydradenitis suppurativa and the use of Optical Coherence Tomography as a diagnostic mapping tool.

Dr Melinda Protani is an epidemiologist with over 15 years experience in research and tertiary education. She is the current Program Director for the Master of Epidemiology at UQ. Her research is focussed on cancer aetiology, survivorship and patterns of care, with a particular interest in inequity in access to health services and the receipt of optimal cancer care. Dr Protani has experience in a number of methods including medical record audits, surveys of the general population, patient groups and clinicians, and data linkage using registry and administrative datasets.

I am Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. I was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, the University of California at Berkeley (as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar), and the University of Cambridge (as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar). I have held various visiting scholarships/fellowships/professorships, including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Georgetown University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. In 2000 Jack Copeland and I founded the online Turing Archive for the History of Computing, which has received the Encyclopedia Britannica Internet Guide Award for Excellence and the Scientific American Sci/Tech Award. We received a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand for research into the philosophical foundations of cognitive and computer science.

Scaling-up fermentation processes is not straightforward due to the emergence of concentration gradients at scale. For gas fermentation processes, with CO2, CO and CH4 and H2, scaling is even more challenging as high mass transfer rates need to be obtained. In his work, Lars is developing a framework to reliably scale-up gas fermentation processes, considering both mass transfer and concentration gradients. We aim to employ mechanistic models, combined with wet-lab data, to develop relationships and fluid dynamic (CFD) models to estimate the fermentation performance at industrial scale. He specialised in topics like bioreactor and bioprocess design, bioprocess scale-up/scale-down, mass transfer and transport phenomena, metabolic and kinetic modelling and simulation techniques.

Artem Pulemotov holds a Bachelor's degree from Kyiv University and a PhD from Cornell University. His research is primarily in the field of geometric analysis. He had been a Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago before joining the School of Mathematics and Physics at UQ as a lecturer in 2012.

Dr Cheneal Puljevic is a UQ Amplify Senior Research Fellow at the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame at the School of Public Health. Her research focuses on illicit markets for legal products, particularly tobacco and alcohol, and their implications for public health, regulation, and enforcement. Her current program of work, funded by an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2023–2026), examines the drivers and deterrents of illicit tobacco use in Australia. Her broader research interests include drug checking (pill testing), alcohol-fuelled violence, and harm reduction responses to substance use.

Cheneal is also the Bachelor of Health Sciences Honours program director and course convenor, the Deputy Director of the School of Public Health's Research and Research Training Committee, a core research team member for the Global Drug Survey, an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Drug Policy, a Deputy Editor for Drug and Alcohol Review, and a volunteer (and former Queensland Research Lead) for The Loop Australia.

Cheneal was previously employed as the Research Operations Manager for the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (2021-2022) and as a Research Fellow (2018-2022) at the Global Substance Use and Mental Health unit at the Centre for Health Services Research.

She completed her PhD in 2018 at Griffith Criminology Institute at Griffith University, with her thesis focusing on smoking cessation among people who have experienced incarceration. She completed an Honours degree in Psychology at the University of Cape Town in 2011, with her thesis focusing on screening and brief interventions for alcohol-related injuries at an emergency centre.

Cheneal is currently not available to take on further students for supervision.

Dr David Pullar's research interests are in: Geographical Information Science (Spatial analysis, Spatial modelling languages and frameworks, 3D visualisation, Environmental database applications) and Landscape Modelling (Catchment hydrology, Landuse change, Landscape dynamics).

David Pullar received his PhD from the University of Maine in 1994. His current research projects are in the fields of:

Incorporating Level Set Methods in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Land-Surface Process ModellingUsing Spatial Simulation to Create a Process Classification of Provincial BioregionsEnvironmental Database Management and IntegrationHis collaborators include:Coastal CRCIntelligent Real-time Imaging and Sensing (IRIS)The Ecology CentreHigh Performance Computing, VisAC Lab

Breast and Endocrine Surgeon, Mater Hospitals South Brisbane.

Previous Fellowships at University of Nottingham(UK) and Mayo Clinic (USA)

Chairman, Foundation for Breast Cancer Care

Senior Surgeon Breast Screen Qld Metro south Brisbane