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Dr Jenna L. Taylor obtained her PhD in Exercise Physiology from The University of Queensland in 2019 as an NHMRC postgraduate research scholar. She then completed a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the United States at The Mayo Clinic with the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. She is now a Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology with the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at UQ and heads up the Physiology and Ultrasound Laboratory for Science and Exercise (PULSE). Her interest in cardiovascular disease stems from her clinical experience as an exercise physiologist and dietitian working in a hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program. Broadly, her research interests involve the effect of exercise training and intensity on improving cardiovascular and brain health, in the settings of healthy ageing and risk reduction for cardiovascular disease and vascular dementia. She is currently the PI on an NIH-funded Clinical Trial (1R21AG073726) investigating the influence of exercise training and intensity on cognitive function and cerebral blood flow regulation in patients with cardiovascular disease.

Leonie is proud of her traditional connections to the Djaku-nde people of North Burnett, Juru people in Bowen North Queensland and the Nuigi people of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) with bloodline traces back to Tanna, Santo and Lifu Island's in Vanuatu. With over 30 years of experience in social work, Leonie is a nationally recognised leader in cultural safety, Indigenous engagement and community development. Leonie has extensive experience in across child protection, mental health and teritary education sectors. Her professional expereist encompasses policy development, legislative reform, and practice frameworks, with a strong emphasis on co-design, cultural mentoring and workforce development. She has lectured in Indigenous Health, Social Work, Mental Health and contributed to the development of culturally safe, student-centred curricula. Renowned for her authentic faciliation style, she empowers individuals and organisations to embed cultural safety and drive systemic change across government, non-government, and academic contexts.

Dr Paul Taylor is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the T.C. Beirne School of Law, and Fellow of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law. His principal academic interests are international human rights law and conflict of laws (private international law).

Before emigrating from the UK he was in private practice, initially at the criminal bar and latterly as a partner in a large law firm specialising in competition law and intellectual property. During that time he also taught and wrote substantial texts on competition law, intellectual property and human rights.

Dr Taylor's most significant works include UK and EC Competition Law and Compliance (Sweet & Maxwell, 1999, 600pp); Freedom of Religion: UN and European Human Rights Law and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2005, 400pp); and A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: The UN Human Rights’ Committee’s Monitoring of ICCPR Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2020, 900pp.)

He has represented Australia at numerous meetings of experts at: The Hague Conference on Private International Law, The Netherlands (on issues affecting cross-border litigation; and was involved in the final stages of negotiating the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements); the OECD Competition Committee, Paris; and at bilateral and regional free trade agreement negotiations. He has also made submissions to and given evidence at various government inquiries.

Dr Taylor has held Visiting Fellowships at Wolfson College, Cambridge and at the Centre for International and Public Law, College of Law, Australian National University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia.

Morgan Tear is a behavioural scientist with over a decade of experience translating behavioural insights into practical solutions for social policy challenges. He specialises in understanding human behaviour at multiple levels—individual, organisational, and systemic—to design interventions that are well-targeted and more likely to succeed.

Morgan’s expertise spans behavioural science, public policy, applied psychology, and systems thinking. As the inaugural manager of Queensland’s Behavioural Economics and Research Team (BERT), he led the development of the state’s first central agency behavioural insights unit, delivering research-based projects that shaped policy, program design, and reform initiatives.

Morgan collaborates with a diverse range of stakeholders, including policymakers, academics, practitioners, government departments, think tanks, and not-for-profits. He is passionate about advancing best-practice principles for behavioural science, scaling and implementing social innovations, and improving research translation practices to meet the demands of complex policy environments.

Morgan’s work at the Centre for Policy Futures focuses on Work Futures and Economic Security, where he continues to bridge the gap between evidence and implementation.

I'm an endocrinologist and obstetric medicine physician and consider myself a clinician researcher. My current research interests are in type 1 diabetes and its complications including glycogenic hepatopathy, and in endocrinopathies of pregnancy. I have received a PhD in engineering, and since switching to the medical field I have conducted several research studies from inception to publication, which involved collaboration with multiple specialties and basic sciences researchers. I’m nimble in conducting research in parallel with my clinical work.

I’ve been an invited speaker at multiple national forums, speaking to a range of audiences, including nursing, general practice, trainees and subspecialty peers (in endocrinology and obstetric medicine, but also other fields including obstetrics and gynaecology).

I enjoy staying abreast of current literature, and this has enabled me to lead and/or contribute to the development of various hospital guidelines and policies, including thyroid management in pregnancy insulin management in hospital including pregnancy and the peripartum period, post bariatric surgery in pregnancy, osteoporosis post cancer and hip fracture quality assurance. I’ve engaged with clinicians across different hospitals and with GP liaison programs to ensure consistency of practice.

Protein trafficking in disease

The highly co-ordinated movement of the thousands of distinct membrane proteins between the cell surface and intracellular compartments is a critical factor in health and disease. This movement controls the organisation of cells in tissues and communication between cells and their environment. The success of this process depends on the regulated sorting and trafficking of proteins within the highly dynamic endosomal compartments of the cell in processes that are emerging as important drivers of neurodegenerative disease, cancer and metabolic pathologies. An understanding of how endosomal traffic is regulated, and how lysosomal traffic and degradation are modulated, is critical for providing insights into disease and devising new therapeutic approaches.

Major Undergraduate Teaching Activity

SBMS Honours Convenor (BBiomed, BAdvcSci (Cell Biology and Biomedical Science majors) & BSci (Cell Biology and Biomedical Science majors)

SBMS Honours Coordinator (BIOM6191 & BIOM6192)

BIOL2200 – Molecular Cell Biology I Lecturer and practical cooridinator

BIOL3006 – Molecular Cell Biology II Lecturer

Student Supervisor for Research Projects in Biomedical Sciences (SCIE3220/1 or Honours)

Dr Tebyetekerwa is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Sub-Group Leader at UQ Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation and ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide(GETCO2), working with Professor Xiwang Zhang. His current main research interests at UQ School of Chemical Engineering rotate around water and electrochemical systems such as electrochemical CO2 capture and conversion to valuable chemicals and electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide and/or hydrogen. He is deeply interested in designing scalable and industry-relevant chemical cells and generators. He completed his PhD from The Australian National University (ANU), where his research focused on optical spectroscopy and advanced characterization of semiconducting materials and their devices (Supervised by Prof Dan Macdonald, A/Prof. Dr. Hieu T. Nguyen and Prof. Yuerui (Larry) Lu). Dr Tebyetekerwa also holds a Master's in Materials Processing Engineering from Donghua University, Shanghai, where his research focused on fibrous materials for flexible energy storage (Supervised by Academician Meifang Zhu and A/Prof Shengyuan Yang). Mike supervises projects for undergraduate, master's, and PhD students on topics related to the following research interests;

1. Scalable electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide and/or hydrogen from water*
2. Scalable electrochemical CO2 capture and reduction to valuable chemicals*
3. Reconstructed graphite for sodium-ion batteries
4. High surface area electrospun fibre materials for various applications
5. Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) molecules and their engineered applications
6. Light-matter understanding of 2D materials and other semiconductor materials for optoelectronics*

*Currently funded and active ongoing projects

Featured works

• 2022: His work on 2D materials (https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(21)00213-7) was selected in the Cell Reports Physical Science “Influential papers-2021” and "Editor's Choice-2021" collection.
• 2021: His works (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/sc/c8ee02607f) and other co-authored works (https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abb8687), ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.11.012 ) are listed as "Highly Cited Papers" and "Hot Papers" in Web of Science.
• 2020:His work on nanofibers has continuously been listed as one of the highly cited articles for Advanced Fiber Materials (https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-020-00049-5), since it was published to date.
• 2019:His work on nanofibers ( https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.7b00057 ) was listed as the most-read article for ACS Applied Energy Materials in 2018.

In addition to his research, Mike lectures Sustainable Energy Technologies and Supply Systems (ENGY7000) course as part of the Master of Sustainable Energy (MSE) program.

Dr Sarah Teitt is an Australian Research Council DECRA Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. The Asia Pacific Centre for R2P is a joint initiative of the University of Queensland and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to deepen knowledge and advance policy on R2P and mass atrocities prevention in the Asia Pacific region. Sarah’s research focusses on Chinese foreign policy in relation to international intervention, peacebuilding and humanitarian emergency response, and on the politics of genocide and mass atrocity prevention in the Asia Pacific region.

Sarah was a founding member of the APR2P Centre’s management team in 2008. From 2009-mid 2012 she served as the Centre’s Outreach Director, and was responsible for managing the Centre's regional partnerships, as well as developing and delivering training and education programs on mass atrocities prevention for government, civil society and academic institutions in the Asia Pacific region.

Cassie Tellegen is the Curriculum Development Leader at the PFSC. She is responsible for updating and creating Triple P training materials. Cassie is a clinical psychologist and board approved clinical supervisor who completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2013 at UQ. Her research and clinical work has focused on developmental disabilities with a special interest in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her research in clinical psychology and behavioural family intervention has been cited extensively. In particular, her comprehensive meta-analyses have received wide international recognition.

I was awarded my PhD in biomedical engineeering in January 2011; and since then I have been employed at the University of Queensland as a lecturer in Electrical & Biomedical Engineering a within the school of IT and Electrical Engineering. I am trained as a biomedical engineer, and my overarching interest is the development of novel medical diagnostic tools and therapies with the goal improving the health outcomes of people in Australia and globally. My current research is focussed on the application of electronic instrumentation, mathematical modelling and signal's processing to pediatric and adult respiratroy and sleep medicine medicine, and I regard my research strength to be the ability to bridge the gap between clinical physiology and biomedical engineering. In particular:

• The development of novel instrumentation and mathematical modelling to better understand the physiology underlying disease; and
• The application of engineering and mathematics to translate recent advances in the understanding of physiology to the clinical environment

My current research themes include:

• Quantifying ("phenoyping") the contribution of ventilatory control "loop gain" to obstructive sleep apnoea in the clinical environment
• Development of novel instrumentation to quantify head and torso posuture during sleep, and it's influence on obstructive sleep apnoea severity
• Developing novel actigraphy systems (using high temporal resolution accelerometry) to quantify sleep disturbance in children
• Quantifying cardio-respiratory stability in pre-term neonates

I'm currently the Discipline Leader for Imaging Sensing and Biomedical Engineering within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).

Professor Susan Tett is a registered pharmacist with research interests in Quality Use of Medicines (improving how medicines are used) and clinical pharmacokinetics (optimising medicine doses)

Sue completed her PhD in 1988. Since this time she has been in research positions and in academia at Sydney University, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and at the University of Queensland. She has over 150 peer reviewed research publications and over 200 conference presentations and is on Editorial Board of Clinical Pharmacokinetics. Sue was Head of the School of Pharmacy, University of Queensland 1996-2004 and Deputy Executive Dean & Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Health Sciences 2006-2010, including periods as Acting Executive Dean.

Susan Tett has been a member of many Australian national and State advisory committees, including Pharmaceutical Health and Rational use of Medicines Committee 1996-2004, Pharmaceutical Sub-Committee of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee 1995-2004, Pharmaceutical Industry Working Group 2003-10 , Pharmaceutical Partnerships Program Committee of the Industry Research & Development Board 2003-09, and has participated in NHMRC Project Grant Review Panels and Fellowships Panels. She was also Councillor for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Queensland Branch) and was the Australian Pharmacist of the Year in 1999, for her contributions to pharmacy education and research.

Sue’s research interests are directed towards optimising the clinical use of medications. General areas of research include quality use of medicines, clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Sue supervises a number of postgraduate students and is actively involved in innovation in the pharmacy profession, pushing the professional boundaries. She is committed to enhancing the role of the health care team in optimising consumer health outcomes.

Valerio's current research is focused on coastal conservation and restoration. His work supports the Nature Repair Market (NRM) established by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment, and Water (DCCEEW) and encompasses facilitating expert collaboration, developing best-practice guidelines for biodiversity assessment, and informing evidence-based policy for coastal restoration.

Originally from the Swiss-Italian region of Switzerland, Valerio has a background in neuroengineering and molecular biology. He completed his BSc in Biology at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland, and his MSc in Biology (with a focus on neuroscience) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland. Despite growing up in the middle of the Alps, he has always had a fascination with marine life, which brought him to the University of Queensland to undertake his Master’s thesis as part of the Sensory Neurobiology group, studying the visual system of surgeonfish. Valerio has recently completed his PhD as part of the Marine Sensory Ecology Lab at the University of Queensland, where he researched the development of colour vision and colouration in a coral reef fish family, applying cutting-edge technology such as CRISPR-Cas9 and single cell RNA sequencing, while also using behaviour paradigms, calibrated photography, phylogenetic comparative methods and bioinformatics.

Dr Phong Thai is an ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellow. Phong joined Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) in 2018 after his Vice Chancellor Senior Research Fellowship at the International Laboratory of Air Quality and Health at Queensland University of Technology. His research focus at QAEHS involves the expansion of wastewater-based epidemiological approach to estimate community consumption and exposure to a range of licit and illicit substances including tobacco and alcohol, pharmaceuticals and as well as the monitoring of community infection to Covid-19 during the last pandemic. He is a member of the team who manage the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program.

Phong is also working on projects monitoring occurence, fate and transport of environmental pollutants in different matrices. He has lso far ed or contributed to several exciting projects totalling > A$ 15 millions.