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Mario Jr Rebosura received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (2009) from the University of the Philippines Los Banos and his Masters of Engineering in Environmental Engineering (2012) from the Catholic University of Korea. After his Masters he has worked in the process automation, process engineering, and project management for several years. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering (2020) from the University of Queensland under the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology (formerly AWMC) and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the same centre.

Mario’s expertise involves the areas of integrated urban water management, anaerobic technologies, and resource recovery. His goal is to produce high impact research that combines fundamental and engineering knowledge to produce scientific discoveries that can translate to real life applications. He has published several top-tiered peer-reviewed international journal papers. He also serves as an Editor for International Research Journal on Innovations in Engineering, Science and Technology published by the Batangas State University Philippines and a reviewer for several international journals. His research was also presented in many international conferences that lead to speaking invitation and organising workshops.

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Professor Tim Reddel is leading the Social Solutions Group at the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland. The Group aims to create greater public policy impact for social science knowledge and research through more collaborative, evidenced based, and mutually beneficial partnerships between researchers, end users and citizens.

Prior to his appointment to the Institute in August 2019, Professor Reddel worked in a range of senior executive roles in the Australian and Queensland public service, the community services sector and academia. He has previously led the Australian Government’s Department of Social Services’ Policy Office which was responsible for evidence, data analysis, research and evaluation strategies to support and enable quality strategic social policy. Professor Reddel joined the Australian Public Service in 2010 as Deputy Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services and has longstanding interest and experience in Indigenous policy and practice. Professor Reddel is also an Adjunct Professor with the Cities Research Institute at Griffith University and was appointed to the Australian Research Council’s Engagement and Impact Assessment Panel for Social Sciences in 2018 to examine how well universities were engaging with research end-users and delivering policy impact.

He has written numerous research articles, papers and reports on social policy governance, locational disadvantage, place based interventions and participatory policy approaches including in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, the Australian Journal of Social Issues and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He also co-edited a book, Community and Local Governance in Australia published by UNSW Press in 2005.

Research interests

Place based policy interventions

Networks and participatory governance

Locational disadvantage

Implementation science, policy impact and research translation

Integrating policy co-design, co-production and data analysis

Dr Andrew Redmond is a specialist physician in infectious diseases medicine with clinical interests in general infectious diseases medicine, immunization, antibiotic allergy, HIV and sexual health. He has research interests in malaria, HIV and sexual health, and health issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, especially in remote settings. He has extensive experience teaching medical students, doctors and other health care workers on clinical reasoning, infectious diseases, and HIV.

He holds adjunct appointments in the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland and the Griffith Institute of Drug Discovery at Griffith University. He is the Clinical Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and Clinical Supervisor for the RAPID HIV/STI Testing Program of QPP.

Associate Prof Amy McCart Reed holds a PhD in molecular biology from The University of Queensland. She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Science of the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia. Her early postdoctoral work focused on understanding the genetic basis of colorectal cancer using experimental disease models, as part of a Cancer Research UK-funded colorectal cancer program led by Professors Ian Tomlinson and Andrew Silver. After returning to Australia, she was recruited to the Molecular Breast Pathology group at UQ’s Centre for Clinical Research and has undertaken a series of studies investigating the genomic landscape of breast cancer special types. Amy's research program includes studies on Metaplastic breast cancer and Invasive Lobular Carcinoma, two breast cancer special types in need of targetted therapy options. A/Prof McCart Reed is the scientific lead on an MRFF-funded genomics program investigating the potential for the application of Whole Genome Sequencing in the breast cancer care pathway in Australia, 'Q-IMPROvE'. She applies genomics and spatial transcriptomics methodologies to archival clinical samples to understand the differences between tumour types and their potential for treatment. Amy is passionate about clinical research, biobanking and precision oncology. In addition to her breast cancer research portfolio, she is on the steering committee for the Brisbane Breast Bank and the Scientific Advisory Board for Breast Cancer Trials.

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.

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.

Dr Reichelt is a tenured teaching and research academic in The University of Queensland’s School of Biomedical Sciences. She completed her PhD in cardiovascular Physiology at Griffith University, and held postdoctoral positions at The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI) in Sydney, the University of California, San Diego (USA) and was a NHMRC Peter Doherty Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Dr Reichelt is currently funded by two Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grants and lead a 2019 Major Equipment Infrastructure Grant for a preclinical ultrasound machine (Vevo 3100) which measures cardiac function in animals as small as embryos in utero.

Dr Reichelt investigated the most important receptors governing cardiac function (adenosinergic, adrenergic, angiotensin, growth factor, mineralocorticoid, SGLT2), and the influence of ageing, diabetes, hypertension, exercise, influenza and sepsis on cardiovascular physiology. This work has been published in leading cardiovascular journals including Circulation Research, Basic Research in Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research, Hypertension and broader or other specialist journals such as Autophagy, Antioxidant and Redox Signalling, Journal of Infectious Disease and Scientific Reports. Dr Reichelt’s research has most recently been augmented by in-house design and production of viruses that control the expression of receptors and their ligands. She remains fascinated by what the heart can accomplish; filling with and ejecting blood every second (or so) of every day and night, year after year, while retaining the capacity to more than treble cardiac output during exercise. It’s an incredible feat of engineering and only gets more and more interesting the more I learn about it.

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.

Dr Lynne Reid is a General Practitioner, medical educator and researcher with expertise in general practice education, sport and exercise medicine, musculoskeletal medicine, and preventive healthcare. She is a Senior Lecturer within the University of Queensland Medical School and works across undergraduate teaching, clinical supervision, assessment, and curriculum development.

Her work focuses on preparing future doctors for contemporary practice, with particular interests in immersive clinical education, evidence-based medicine, communication skills, preventative health, and whole-person care.

Her broader interests include:

• General practice and community-based medical education

• Sport and exercise medicine

• Musculoskeletal medicine and injury management

• Preventive health

• Women’s health

• Clinical assessment and feedback

• Digital health and AI in medical education

• Exercise prescription in primary care

Dr Reid is passionate about strengthening the role of general practice within the health system and building supportive learning environments for students, trainees and clinicians.

Dr Natasha Reid is a Behavioural Scientist and Research Fellow at the Australian Frailty Network, Frazer Institute, Faculty of Medicine. Her work sits at the intersection of behaviour change theory and practice, healthy ageing, and frailty prevention, with a particular focus on designing and evaluating interventions that improve quality of life, function, and long-term wellbeing for older adults.

Natasha’s research spans community, hospital, cancer, rehabilitation, and long-term-care settings, combining large-scale epidemiological studies with the development of behaviour-change interventions at both individual and system levels. She is particularly known for her work addressing the intention–behaviour gap in real-world health settings and for advancing values-led, long-term behaviour-change approaches. She has led and contributed to national projects across primary care, frailty screening and management, transition care, and digital health. Natasha works closely with stakeholders and consumer groups to co-design and implement evidence-based strategies that can be translated into practice and policy.

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.

I am an Organic Chemist and research the design and preparation of new medicines for diseases including arthritis and cancer

Dr. Robert C. Reid was awarded B.Sc. Hons 1 (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees from the University of Sydney, Department of Organic Chemistry. He studied the stereospecific total synthesis of complex natural products with Professor Max J. Crossley and then undertook postdoctoral studies with Professor Sir Jack E. Baldwin FRS at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford University UK (1990-93) studying the biosynthesis of penicillins. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (formerly known as the Centre for Drug Design and Development) at the University of Queensland with Professor David Fairlie. Research interests include Organic Synthesis, medicinal chemistry, drug design and development, nonpeptidic GPCR antagonists, natural products, protease inhibitors, other enzyme inhibitors, and peptidomimetics.

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.

Dr Saphira Rekker is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sustainable Finance and an ARC DECRA Fellow at The University of Queensland Business School. She holds a PhD in Finance and is internationally recognised for her work on corporate climate performance measurement and the development of science-based emissions reduction methodologies.

Saphira’s research focuses on building robust tools to measure, verify, and benchmark the credibility of corporate decarbonisation actions and commitments. She is widely regarded for her expertise in carbon-budget-based assessment frameworks and corporate climate benchmarking. During her 2019 secondment at Princeton University, she co-developed the Rapid Switch Australia project within Princeton’s global Rapid Switch initiative. She now leads the Carbon Budget Tracker, a collaborative platform linking researchers from UQ, Oxford, Princeton, LSE, and Utrecht to assess corporate and portfolio alignment with the Paris Agreement.

Saphira contributes her expertise to major international standard-setting and policy processes. She serves as an Australian delegate to the ISO Net Zero standard and previously served on both the Scientific Advisory Group and the Technical Working Group of the Science Based Targets initiative (oil and gas), where she contributed to the development of methodologies underpinning credible, science-aligned targets. Although the SAG was dissolved in 2024/2025, she remains engaged in methodological guidance and advisory work for science-based target-setting. She also played a significant role in shaping the EU Climate Benchmarking Regulation, where her quantitative contribution remains a central component after multiple revisions. In addition, she advises on climate-related litigation, including work with the Environmental Defenders Office.

Her research is cross-disciplinary and published in leading academic journals including Nature Climate Change and Nature Communications. Her 2022 Nature Communications article attracted international attention and led to a collaboration with Norges Bank Investment Management, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, to evaluate steel-sector Paris alignment. Her recent Nature Climate Change Comment proposes “structured pluralism with budget compliance” as a way to strengthen corporate climate benchmarking practices. She maintains active collaborations with Oxford, Princeton, LSE, and Utrecht, as well as industry partners such as Fidelity, Ernst & Young, and NBIM.

Saphira has received numerous awards and competitive funding, including the prestigious ARC DECRA (over $430,000, 2024–2027), the 2024 UQ BEL Commendation for Enhancing Employability and the UQ Business School Award for Excellence in Student Engagement (for SMIF), the Green Gown Awards Australasia 2022 and UQBS Excellence in Innovation Award 2021 for co-founding Australia’s first Carbon Literacy course, the Business & Society Best Paper Award (2021), the UQBS Excellence in PRME Award (2023), first place in the UN PRI Essay Competition (2018), and a UQ Teaching Award (2017).

She is deeply committed to embedding sustainability into finance education. Saphira co-led UQ’s Student Managed Investment Fund (A$260,000+) from 2021–2023, integrating climate-risk analysis into portfolio management and competition preparation. She co-founded Australia’s first Carbon Literacy course and co-authored two open-access UQ Press textbooks. Her teaching evaluations are consistently outstanding. She supervises Honours, Masters, and PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and industry-linked projects.

Saphira also serves as the elected UQ academic representative to UniSuper (188/211 votes) and coached the UQ team that placed second in the Global Business Challenge (2019, $15,000). She is a frequent speaker at conferences such as the UN PRI Annual Conference and the Princeton E-ffiliates Retreat, and is a regular reviewer for journals including Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, and Nature Communications.