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Dr Dharmesh D Bhuva is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow (EL1) on a mission to understand how complex systems of gene regulation and signalling produce diverse tissue phenotypes in health, disease, and development. He completed his PhD in Oct 2020 through the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, focusing on developing novel systems biology approaches to study molecular function and gene regulation in cancer systems. His current work focuses on extending these ideas to biological tissues through the development of computational methods to generate accurate biological insights from spatial molecular datasets.

Whilst being an early career researcher, he has developed high quality bioinformatics software that have been downloaded more than 160,000 times, has received >$3.25M in funding support, including NHMRC and MRFF, and has published in Genome biology and Nucleic Acids Research, some of the highest-ranking journals in his field. Dr Bhuva has organised and run various computational biology workshops at the University of Melbourne as well as the WEHI Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Masterclass (2021) that was delivered to the Asia-Pacific region. He currently supervises a PhD student and has co-supervised 2 successful MSc Bioinformatics students.

Dr. Bialasiewicz worked at the Royal Children's Hospital and the Children's Health Queensland HHS for over 18 years conducting translational research and clinical support centering on infectious disease (primarily viral and bacterial) molecular diagnostics, general microbiology and molecular epidemiology. In 2019, he became a group leader at The University of Queensland's Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, expanding on a growing interest in the microbial ecology of the human body, it's role in health and disease, and ways to manipulated to achieve desirable outcomes. One Health microbial ecology, where human health is interconnected with the health of animals (both livestock and wildlife), and the broader environment is also an area of active interest. His background in virology has influenced the work he does, meaning a key focus of his microbial ecology works centres around the interactions between all types of microorgansims (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and micro-eukaryotes).

Ongoing work includes:

- Leveraging of emerging technologies to explore the hidden microbial diversity and their interactions in the human body.

- Using the technology to develop microbial (e.g. phage)-based treatments or preventatives to complex diseases (e.g. Otitis Media, Chronic Rhinosinusitis, GvHD).

- Understanding the genetics of antibiotic resistance spread.

A/Prof. Konstanty Bialkowski’s research interests lie in the area of wireless sensing, passive radar, communication systems, and signal processing, and specifically in the use of multiple antennas or sensors for communication, radar and imaging systems. In these fields, a software-defined-radio (SDR) is an extremely useful tool, allowing practical experimentation in specific areas like wireless sensing, biological applications, high reliability or high data rate communications and radio-frequency identification.

Some key contributions have been in the development of architectures to collect information from various sensors including RF, vibration and acoustic signals; as well as sensor algorithms for passive radar, where using multiple receivers is capable of resolving target location in 3D space, rather than just the range and Doppler; and showing that SDRs can be used to develop low cost biomedical imaging devices.

Dr Alina Bialkowski is a computer vision & machine learning researcher developing interpretable machine learning models to increase the performance and transparency of Artificial Intelligence (AI) decision-making. Her research interests include quantifying and extracting actionable knowledge from data to solve real-world problems and giving human understanding to AI models through feature visualisation and attribution methods. She has applied these techniques to various multi-disciplinary applications such as medical imaging (including imaging strokes in the brain using the new sensing modality of electromagnetic imaging), modelling human attention in driving, intelligent transport systems (ITS), intelligent surveillance, and sports analytics.

Dr Bialkowski holds a PhD and BEng (Electrical Engineering) from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her doctoral studies were in characterising group behaviours from visual and spatio-temporal data to enhance statistics and visualisation in sports analytics as well as intelligent surveillance systems. She spent a year at Disney Research Pittsburgh where she developed techniques to automatically analyse team sports, followed by 2.5 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University College London, developing deep neural networks to better understand human perception and attention in driving, before joining UQ in late 2017.

The impact of her research is evidenced by the high number of citations to her work (>1600 citations and an h-index of 20 according to Google Scholar) and awards including a best paper prize in 2017 at WACV (a top computer vision conference). In addition to high impact journals and conferences, her work has resulted in 6 international patents filed with Disney Research, Toyota Motor Europe, University College London, and The University of Queensland.

Dr. Summa Bibbyis a structural virologist whose research focuses on understanding flavivirus structure and how changes in viral architecture influence antigenicity, with direct implications for vaccine and therapeutic design. Using cryo-electron microscopy and complementary molecular approaches, Dr. Bibby investigates the architecture of flavivirus particles and their envelope proteins. Her doctoral work demonstrated that a single amino acid residue in the yellow fever virus envelope protein can significantly alter virion architecture and antigenic properties, providing new insights into the relationship between flavivirus structure and immune recognition. Through this work, Dr. Bibby developed strong expertise in virus structure–function relationships, antibody development, and cryogenic-electron microscopy. Currently, Dr. Bibby is working to develop next-generation flavivirus vaccines and therapeutics.

Reihaneh is a Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. She earned her PhD from the Queensland University of Technology, School of Information Systems. Her research centres on how organisations manage the complexities of AI, automation, and digital integration. Reihaneh’s work delves into the impact of emerging technologies like AI on the redesign and organisation of work, while also addressing the challenges of managing their potential negative consequences. Her research provides actionable insights for non-governmental organisations and public agencies, helping them to deliver value through the effective implementation of human-AI hybrid systems. Reihaneh teaches managing business data and information retrieval to undergraduate and postgraduate Information Systems program. She has previously developed, coordinated, and taught courses in Business Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, Design of Enterprise IoT Systems, Mobile and Pervasive Systems, and Mobile App Development for both undergraduate and master’s students.

Professor Rick Bigwood’s principal teaching and research interests lie in the areas of contract and property law. He was formerly a Senior Solicitor and Acting Principal Solicitor with the Federal Attorney-General's Department in Canberra (Office of Commercial Law). Before joining TC Beirne School of Law, Professor Bigwood taught at Bond University for five years, and he was on the Auckland Law Faculty for 16 years before that, where he was also the Director of the Research Centre for Business Law. He has published widely in leading international journals on subjects within contract, equity and property law, and he has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on contract law. His publications include the following books: Legal Method in New Zealand (Butterworths, 2001); Exploitative Contracts (Oxford University Press, 2003) (awarded the JF Northey Memorial Book Award for 2003); The Statute: Making and Meaning (LexisNexis, 2004); Public Interest Litigation: The New Zealand Experience in International Perspective (LexisNexis, 2006); The Permanent New Zealand Court of Appeal: Essays on the First 50 Years (Hart Publishing, 2009); Contract as Assumption: Essays on a Theme (by Brian Coote) (Hart Publishing, 2010); The Law of Remedies: New Directions in the Common Law (Irwin Law, 2010) (with Jeff Berryman); Cheshire & Fifoot, Law of Contract (various editions since 2012) (with Nick Seddon); and Variations on a Theme of Contract (LexisNexis, 2019) (with GHL Fridman). Professor Bigwood was formerly the General Editor of the New Zealand Universities Law Review, and he was Editor of the New Zealand Law Review 2002-2008 and University of Queensland Law Journal 2019-2021. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of the New Zealand Law Review and the Journal of Contract Law. Professor Bigwood has received a number of awards, prizes and honours for his teaching at various tertiary educational institutions, in a variety of countries, including a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in 2006 (New Zealand). He is currently Academic Dean and Head of the TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland and current holder of the Sir Gerard Brennan Chair in Law.

Dr Peter Billings is a Professor at the School of Law, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research interests are in particular areas of public law: administrative law, immigration and refugee law, social welfare law and human rights law. In 2016 he received an Australian Award for University Teaching - Award for Programs that Enhance Learning (Pro Bono Centre). Since 2010 he has received five teaching excellence awards within the School of Law for outstanding course/teacher evaluations, and in 2011 was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Equity and Diversity Award (UQ) for the Asylum and Refugee Law Project.

Recent publications include: P Billings (ed), Regulating Refugee Protection through Social Welfare: Law, Policy and Praxis (Routledge, 2023); An Annotated Guide to the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) (LexisNexis, 2023) (with N Jones); Ch. 10 "Immunised and Indifferent to Indefinite Incarceration, in M Peterie, Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration (Routledge, 2025); and "Causing a Stir: Unwanted Aliens and the Cauldron of Crimmigration Controls Post NZYQ" (UQLJ (2025) forthcoming).

Jacob is a proud Gamilaraay man from QLD and a PhD candidate within QAAFI. Jacob's work focuses on Indigenous food sovereignty as nation-building, looking at the Gamilaraay peoples' governance of thier native grains industry as a case study.

Jacob is taking a systems approach in developing the nascent native grains industry. His priority is setting strong, strategic, sustainable, Indignoeus-led governace to ensure opportunity and benefit remains with Indigenous people. Jacob also has active interests spanning the ecology and conservaion of native grassland species; agronomic knowledge to help support reintroduction of native grains; supply chain and processing of native grains; nutrition and food safety; product development and marketing; and education and engagement.

Jacob's passion also extends to the broader Indigenous food sovereignty movement. Through his work, Jacob collaborates across disparate spaces and advocates for the transformative potential of integrated, circular, sustainable, Indigenous-designed food systems that prioritise human and ecosystem health over profit and production.