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Dr Carroll completed his doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of Queensland in 2001. He was awarded an Isaac Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship to pursue postdoctoral studies at the University of Alberta in 2002, before accepting a position as a Lecturer in Human Motor Control at the University of New South Wales in 2003. He joined the School of Human Movement Studies as a Senior Lecturer in July 2007.

Dr Carroll’s research interests lie in the broad field of integrative human physiology. His work spans the fields of exercise science and integrative neuroscience, with a focus on determining how the central nervous system is reorganised as a consequence of motor learning and exercise. He has a specific interest in the area of strength training. Dr Carroll’s research involves the application of electro-physiological techniques such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), peripheral nerve stimulation, and electromyography (EMG) in experiments involving human subjects. The ultimate purpose of his work is to generate basic knowledge that will lead to the development of exercise protocols that yield maximal benefits for rehabilitation and injury prevention. His work has been funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) since 2004.

Annemaree Carroll is Professor of Educational Psychology within the School of Education at The University of Queensland. Her research activities focus on the social emotional learning of children and adolescents, and the importance of social connectedness, (dis)engagement, and social inclusion to their behavioural and educational outcomes. Student, teacher, and community voices and agency are key considerations in her research methodologies. She is known nationally and internationally for the development of innovative emotion regulation interventions for children and youth to bring about positive change in their lives. She has conceptualised and coordinated the development of the Mindfields Suite of Programs (www.mindfields.com.au), which encompasses a strengths-based approach to student well-being that targets school-wide practices to help young people take control of their lives. She has also led a team of researchers to develop the KooLKIDS Resources (www.kool-kids.com.au), an emotion resilience program to empower children to live well with themselves and others by learning social, emotional, and cognitive skills that promote self-regulation and well-being. Her research has now extended to teacher emotion regulation strategies, demonstrating that improved teacher well-being has downstream benefits to students' well-being and the teacher-student relationship.

Professor Carroll has extensive experience managing large-scale, school-based projects across classroom settings and clinic-based research, in which she has excellent skills in test administration with children and adolescents. She has also been concerned with children with neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., ADHD, speech-language disorders, Tourette Syndrome) to examine information-processing tasks that may demand intact executive functioning and that require dual-task performance and control of impulsive reactions.

From 2014 to 2020, Professor Carroll was Co-ordinator of Translational Outcomes within the Australian Research Council Science of Learning Research Centre. Building on this work, she is the co-founder and Head of the UQ Learning Lab, where multi-disciplinary researchers work in partnership with educational and industry professionals to identify and address important learning and training priorities. The Learning Lab’s primary objective is to transform education and learning across schooling and beyond, through partnered innovations and research translation initiatives.

Professor Carroll is a registered teacher and psychologist. She has experience teaching in primary and special education in Queensland and has engaged in research and higher education teaching at The University of Queensland and The University of Western Australia, where she was granted a Master of Education (1991) and PhD in Educational Psychology (1995). She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2018.

Professor David Carter's research interests include Australian literature and publishing history, cultural history, the history of the book, magazines and periodical studies, middlebrow cultures, and studies in modernity.

Professor Carter was Director of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland from 2001 to 2006, then Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History in the School of Communication and Arts.

He is the author of Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace, 1840s-1940s (2018) with Roger Osborne, Almost Always Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013), Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies (2006) and A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (1997), winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award for literary scholarship. His edited books include the co-edited Fields, Capitals, Habitus: Australian Culture, Inequalities and Social Divisions (2020); Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing (2007) with Anne Galligan; The Ideas Market: An Alternative Take on Australia's Intellectual Life (2004); Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs, with Tony Bennett (2001); and Outside the Book: Contemporary Essays on Literary Periodicals (1991).

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Series Editor, Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture, Anthem UK.

Professor Carter has extensive experience in teaching and developing programs in Australian Studies internationally. He was President of the International Australian Studies Association from 1997 to 2001; Manager of the Australian Studies in China program of the Australia-China Council (2002-16); a board member of the Australia-Japan Foundation (1998-2004); and Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Tokyo University (2007-08 & 2016-17). He is a Board Member of the Foundation for Australian Studies in China.

Lilia works to unravel the overwhelming complexity of the biological world and to assess ways to use it to solve problems of our time. She finds especially intriguing all the invisible interactions between plant and microbes. She investigates the drivers of these interactions and aims to address major societal challenges. Her purpose is to make use of nature’s arsenal to tackle problems that threaten environmental conservation and food security. She has worked with a range of beneficial and pathogenic microbes across model, forestry, grain, and horticultural plant species, grown in managed and natural habitats in different countries, including Brazil, Germany, Australia, USA, Costa Rica, and Papua New Guinea. Her expertise lies within plant pathology, molecular biology, plant nutrition, microbial ecology, biological indicators of soil health, bio-prospection of natural products produced by microbes, plant biotechnology, and molecular diagnostics.

Gilda Carvalho is an Associate Professor at the ACWEB and the School of Chemical Engineering. Gilda is Group Leader of the Drinking and Recycled Water research group, and she also leads research in the area of Environmental Bioengineering, with particular focus on microbial processes for water/wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Her research interests include removal of Chemicals of Emerging Concern (CEC), Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR), biofilm systems, membrane processes for water/wastewater treatment and reuse, and resource recovery from waste/wastewater streams - acidogenesis and biopolymer production (namely polyhydroalkanoates). One area that Gilda has particularly developed across all these areas was the use of molecular tools to link microbial ecology/activity of biological systems to process performance. Gilda has published over 90 peer reviewed papers, and has participated in >40 research projects, a significant number of them being multinational and involving the participation of industrial partners. Gilda is strongly dedicated to teaching and learning, with extensive teaching experience in various areas of Chemical/Environmental/Bioprocess Engineering. Gilda is Coordinator of the Postgraduate Programs of Urban Water Engineering. She is also an experienced HDR supervisor (>20 PhD students).

Anthony Cassimatis AM is a Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland. Anthony teaches administrative law and public international law. He is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland. He was the chairperson of the Australian Red Cross' International Humanitarian Law Committee for Queensland from 2005-2018 and he remains a member of this committee, which he joined in 1998. Anthony is the author or co-author of 5 books and numerous articles and book chapters on public international law, administrative law and legal advocacy. He is the editor in chief of the Australian International Law Journal. He has been academic supervisor of teams representing the Law School in the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition over many years, including teams that have won the Australian national rounds of the competition (2005, 2012 and 2014) and the Jessup Moot World Championship in Washington DC (2005 and 2014). Anthony was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University in 2007 and 2018. In 2017, Anthony received a national Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Government. In 2020, Anthony was made a Member of the Order of Australia, General Division, “[f]or significant service to education, to the law, and to the community”. In 2020, he was appointed to the Queensland Parliament's Human Rights Advisory Panel, an appointment that has been extended to 2028. In 2022-2023, Anthony was engaged by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a subject matter expert.

Anthony's research interests include international law, administrative law and public law generally.

Rosemary Cater was recently recruited to UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience as a Group Leader and ARC DECRA Fellow. She utilizes structural biology, membrane protein biochemistry, and biophysics to understand some of the brain’s most elusive yet important proteins. The overarching goal of the Cater Lab is to understand molecular mechanisms of transport at the blood-brain barrier.

Dr. Cater was awarded her PhD in 2017 from the University of Sydney, and from 2017-2023 she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Filippo Mancia at Columbia University, New York, USA. Here she used single-particle cryo-electron microscopy and antigen-binding technology to determine structures of small membrane proteins.

Highlights of her career thus far include:

• She has been awarded an ARC DECRA, an NIH K99/R00 career transition award.
• She received a 2022 Blavatnik Regional Finalist Award in Chemistry – a highly competitive award for outstanding post-doctoral research presented at the New York Academy of Sciences Annual Gala.
• She was selected as one was 1 of 120 young leaders invited from 46 countries to the 2022 Science and Technology in Society Forum (Kyoto) to discuss humanity’s global challenges with politicians, CEOs, and Nobel Laureates.
• She was appointed as one of twelve Simons Society Fellows (2018-2022) – one of the USA’s most competitive post-doctoral fellowships, founded in New York by billionaire philanthropist Jim Simons.
• She received a Robin Anders Young Investigator Award at the Lorne Protein Structure and Function 2020 Meeting – one of Australia’s most competitive awards for early-career protein scientists.

Associate Professor David Cavallucci is an Hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgical oncologist. He is a graduate of the two-year ANZHPBA post-fellowship program in HPB surgery as well as the surgical oncology and abdominal transplantation Fellowship at the University of Toronto.

He has a special interest in minimally invasive pancreatic and liver surgery with a broad experience of laparoscopic surgery and developing robotic surgery. Outside of oncology, he manages benign biliary disease including the laparoscopic management of bile duct stones and the surgical management of acute and chronic pancreatitis.

Having completed a Masters degree in Biostatistics, he has published on the use of Propensity Scores and novel weighting techniques in observational surgical research and is an editor for HPB Journal. He is active in teaching and maintains a strong interest in clinical and translational research. A/Prof Cavallucci is the Past-President of the Australian and New Zealand Hepatic pancreatic and biliary association (ANZHPBA).

Dr Robyn Cave is a horticulturalist with research experience in plant propagation, reproductive biology and the control of plant development and flowering. Robyn's current projects involve developing propagation protocols for Australian native plants for food, ornamental purposes and land restoration.

I am interested in low-dimensional geometric topology, with a focus on knot theory, quantum invariants of 3-manifolds, and knot homologies --especially in relation to concordances and 4-dimensional smooth topology. I recently got interested in the deep connections, usually provided by combinatorial algebraic topology, between discrete structures --such as matchings and discrete Morse functions-- and their smooth counterparts. As a side interest, I try to apply techniques from topological data analysis to knot theory.

Professor Anders Cervin has a longstanding interest in sino-nasal disorders, endoscopic sinus surgery as well as endoscopic anterior skull base surgery. His research interests includes mucociliary function in the upper airways, the role of Nitric Oxide in chronic sinusitis, the use of macrolide antibiotics as a immune modulator in chronic sinusitis and health economic perspectives on sino-nasal disease. Recent research addresses the role of probiotics in airway infection and inflammation. He has authored several book chapters and over 50 peer reviewed articles.

Jobichen Chacko is a structural biologist with extensive experience in protein structural biology, protein-ligand interaction, proteases and drug discovery. He completed his PhD from National University of Singapore in the area of structural and functional studies on bacterial protein secretion system. He is proficient in the areas of Cryo-Electron microscopy (Single Particle Analysis), protein structure analysis and X-ray crystallography. He has published more than 40 research articles in high level journals and has more than 700 citations. His research interests are in host-pathogen interaction, protein secretion system, snake venom toxins and proteases. Jobichen is a member of the editorial advisory board for FEBS-openbio journal and serves as a reviewer for various scientific journals.

Dr Li Kheng Chai is a Dietitian, Research Fellow at Health and Wellbeing Queensland, and Honorary Fellow at University of Queensland, with a PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics from The University of Newcastle. She is an implementation researcher with experience in public health nutrition, health promotion education, clinical dietetics practices, medical nutrition therapy, behavioural and implementation sciences, health services research, and teaching and supervision. Her current research focuses on health promotion through systems and settings based approaches to improve nutrition and physical activity, and using technology and digital solutions to develop, deliver and evaluate health promotion programs.

Dr Chai has over a decade of experience working across diverse settings - health services, academia, government, local health districts - with ongoing collaboration with research groups across Australia and internationally. She holds an honorary editorial appointment with European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and has contributed to joint publication outputs with international experts from Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Hong Kong, World Obesity Federation, and World Health Organization.

Dr Chai has been recognised through her many accolades, including the Dietitians Australia Emerging Researcher Award 2016, The University of Newcastle Alumni Excellence Awards 2021 - Beryl Young Researcher Award, Queensland Children’s Hospital Precinct Early Career Researcher of the Year 2019, Queensland Health Practitioner Research Grant 2019-2021 (to trial a clinical paediatric nutrition care model) and Best Presentation at the 2020 Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society International Conference.

Dr Carys Chainey is a postdoctoral research fellow in parenting and family science with The University of Queensland Parenting and Support Centre and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Children and Families Across the Life Course (Life Course Centre). She holds the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Parenting and Family Science from the Growing Minds Australia Clinical Trials Network (GMA; www.growingmindsaustralia.org), and is Social Engagement Strategist for the GMA Early and Mid-Career Researcher Network. Dr Chainey is the clinical trials manager for Family Life Skills Triple P, and operations manager for the Parenting and Family Research Alliance (PAFRA; www.pafra.org).

Dr Chainey's research investigates the links between adverse childhood experiences, parenting, and wellbeing, over the life course and across generations; and applying human centred design to improving the usability of supports available to parents, and the researchers and practitioners working in parenting and family science. She has expertise in the design, implementation, and analysis of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research.

Her current research projects include analyses of large survey datasets (e.g. the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, National Health Survey) and novel survey datasets to explore how intergenerational adversity and parenting influence the wellbeing of children, adolescents and emerging adults. She is leading initiatives to support the next generation of parenting and family researchers, and contributed to the "Every Family 2" Triple P population trial of Triple P. Dr Chainey is an accredited facilitator of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and has contributed to a range of evaluations for the government including the development of the evaluation framework for the Queensland Government "Not Now, Not Ever" Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Strategy.