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Dr Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli's research interests include topics in theoretical physics of fundamental interactions and mathematical physics like supersymmetry, supergravity and superspaces in various space-time dimensions, quantum field theory, extended supersymmetry, covariant formulations of superstrings, complex geometry, quantum gravity, holography, (A)dS/CFT and integrability.

Since October 2019 Dr Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli has joined the School of Mathematics & Physics at the University of Queensland (UQ) as Senior Lecturer (Level C), Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. He has been an Amplify Fellow and a tenured Senior Lecturer since 2025.

Dr Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli's obtained his PhD at the University of Milano Bicocca in November 2006. After that, and before joining UQ, he held several academic appointments and fellowships in Australia (UQ and The University of Western Australia), Belgium (KULeuven U.), Sweden (Uppsala U.), Switzerland (Bern U.), and the USA (Maryland U.).

So far in his career, Dr Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli's successfully attracted competitive research grants and awards for approximately 2.7 million Australian dollars, including, among other grants, a Marie Curie fellowship, an ARC DECRA award, and an ARC Future Fellowship – some of the most prestigious fellowships available to early and middle career researchers in Europe and Australia – and two ARC Discovery Projects, one recently awarded as first Chief Investigator.

Associate Professor Jess Taubert was awarded the ARC Future Fellowship and moved to the University of Queensland in 2021. She is now a UQ Amplify Principal Research Fellow and the director of the BRISbrain lab, which focuses on understanding the neural and cognitive basis of social intelligence and face perception in humans and other animals.

She completed a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours at Macaquarie University (2005) and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Sydney (2009) where she trained in psychophysics and cognitive science. In 2009 she accepted a postdoctoral position as a comparative psychologist at Emory University (GA, USA). Here she worked jointly with Lisa Parr at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Philippe Rochat in the Department of Psychology. In 2011 A/Prof Taubert was awarded a FSR incoming postdoctoral fellowship by UCLouvain and moved to Belgium to train as a neurophysiologist (supervised by Rufin Vogels, Wim Vanduffel, and Bruno Rossion). After briefly returning to Australia, A/Prof Taubert was appointed as an Intramural Research Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in the US (2016 – 2021). During this time she worked with Leslie Ungerleider, Chris Baker, David Leopold, and Elisabeth ("Betsy") Murray among others and she mastered neuroimaging techniques including task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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.

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.

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.

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 Coordinator (BIOM6200)

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)

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.

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 Yonas Tefera is a Research Fellow in psychiatric epidemiology at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR), University of Queensland. He specialises in leveraging epidemiological methods and conducting advanced analyses of large-scale population-level administrative datasets related to hospital admissions and primary care. As an epidemiologist, his expertise spans pharmacoepidemiology and health services research. In his current work, he leads linked data analysis of health service data, including hospital, emergency department, community mental health services, and public dental care for people living with mental illness. In addition to health service use, his linked data alnalyses include outcomes for individuals engaged with mental health tribunals and placed on treatment orders. Dr Tefera's interests encompass psychiatric epidemiology, psychopharmacology, pharmacoepidemiology, and the use of advanced statistical and machine learning approaches to understand and enhance care for individuals living with mental illness or substance use problems.

He completed his PhD at Monash University in late 2025, focusing on opioid and psychotropic medicine use among injured Australian workers with back and neck musculoskeletal disorders. His work examined high-risk medicine use patterns, such as initiation, persistence, and co-prescribing of opioids and psychotropics, as well as their impacts on work-related outcomes in this population. His research has improved the understanding of value-based healthcare in Australian workers' compensation schemes. Dr Tefera possesses substantial expertise in diverse clinical research methodologies, robust evidence synthesis, and quantitative data analysis, including causal inference techniques. His experience includes survey-based studies, analysis of multinational surveys, international aggregate datasets, and linked administrative and claims data, as well as injury compensation datasets.

Before undertaking his PhD, Dr Tefera trained as a clinical pharmacist and worked as a lecturer, clinical preceptor, and mentor at the University of Gondar in Ethiopia, teaching courses such as pharmacotherapy, drug informatics, evidence-based medicine, and pharmacoepidemiology. He earned a Master of Public Health with distinction from the University of Manchester and a Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy from the University of Gondar. His academic excellence has been recognised with several honours, including the Outstanding Student Cup Award from the Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Association and the first-place award for achieving the highest score in his graduating class at the University of Gondar. Additionally, he has received multiple travel grants to present his research at national and international conferences, such as the International Pharmaceutical Federation's World Pharmaceutical Congress and the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology's Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology.

Dr Sarah Teitt is Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland.

Her expertise centres on the intersection of atrocity prevention, civilian protection, and peacebuilding in the Asia Pacific region, with a particular interest in China’s impact and evolving roles in these areas. Her work has been published in journals such as Cooperation and Conflict, International Peacekeeping, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, Survival, the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, and Global Governance. She is co-editor of the volumes China-North Korea Relations: Between Development and Security (2020) and Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security: Aligning the Protection Agendas (2013), and she currently serves on the editorial team of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. From 2019 to 2025, she was an Australian Research Council DECRA Senior Research Fellow.

Sarah’s work is grounded in a commitment to ensuring research is relevant, accessible, and useful for improving atrocity prevention policy and practice. She has extensive experience in designing and delivering training, executive education and policy dialogue programs, including for the United Nations (UN) Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, UN Women, the UN Staff System College, the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights, the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, as well as numerous government-affiliated think tanks and research institutes across the Asia Pacific region.

She was founder and lead convenor of the annual Australia-China Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect from 2014-2020, co-hosted by the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the China Institute of International Studies--a think tank affiliated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

In 2016, Sarah co-founded the Asia Pacific Partnership for Atrocity Prevention (APPAP), an alliance of organizations from across the Asia Pacific region working toward the prevention of atrocity crimes and the protection of vulnerable populations. From 2017-2020, she served as the Co-Chair of APPAP's Gender Working Group, and currently is the lead convenor of the APPAP Secretariat.

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.