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Dr. Seshadri Chatterjee completed his MBBS, MD, and DNB in India, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at the prestigious NIMHANS, Bangalore, before moving to Australia. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) and now works as a consultant psychiatrist at CQHHS. He is also senior lecturer at the University of Queensland.

He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, including in PubMed-indexed journals, and has authored 3 book chapters.

His clinical areas of interest include adult and older-person psychiatry, psychopharmacology, neuropsychiatry, and consultation-liaison psychiatry. Dr. Seshadri is passionate about medical education.. He is also a scholarly project examiner for the RANZCP.

Zeeshan Chaudhry is an emerging expert in virus immunology. His research focuses on the transcriptional regulation of immune cells, particularly CD8⁺ T cells and innate lymphoid cells, including NK cells and ILCs. He aims to uncover the molecular mechanisms that guide the development of long-lived memory T cells, which are critical for durable protective immunity. A key interest of his work is how stem-like progenitors of these cells can be manipulated to combat chronic diseases.

Dr. Chaudhry received his doctoral training at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany, where he investigated viral immune evasion strategies. His research has been published in leading journals such as Nature Immunology, Immunity, PNAS, and PLOS Pathogens.

Srin Chaudhury received her PhD in Marketing from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She has a Masters’ degree in Psychology from the University of Texas and Bachelors’ degrees in Biological Sciences and Psychology from the University at Buffalo. Prior to joining UQ, Srin was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Katz School of Business in the University of Pittsburgh.

Srin’s research prioritizes individual and collective well-bring and examines how psychological, social, and interpersonal factors influence consumer behaviour. Within this broad domain, she is interested in how emotions, cognitions, and cultures affect how consumers interpret and respond to information about brands and products. Her research has been published in highly respected journals such as Emotion, Nature Scientific Reports, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (in-principal acceptance). Her research has also been presented at premier international marketing conferences including the conferences of the Association of Consumer Research (ACR), the Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP), and the American Marketing Association (AMA). Srin’s work has also received the Best paper in the Sustainability and Public Policy track and the Best paper in the Conference awards in Summer AMA 2021.

Professor Bhagirath Chauhan joined the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) at The University of Queensland in 2014. He now has a joint appointment with QAAFI and SAFS at UQ. He leads research on weed biology and weed management in different crops, including wheat, maize, sorghum, mungbean, soybean, chickpea, rice, and cotton. He has studied the seed ecology of >100 weed species and he has a vast experience in developing integrated weed management options based on agronomic approaches (row spacing, seeding rates, weed-competitive cultivars, etc.). Prof Chauhan has more than 20 years of research experience in conducting trials on the improved agronomy of new production systems and integrated weed management options in Australia and >10 Asian countries. Before joining UQ, Prof Chauhan worked at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines for seven years. He has a strong collaboration in several countries, including USA, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Iran, Pakistan, Nigeria and China. His research interests include weed ecology and biology, herbicide use, management of herbicide-resistant weeds, non-chemical weed management options, integrated weed management systems using agronomic and varietal components, nanoherbicides, tillage systems, and conservation agriculture systems. He is a Speciality Chief Editor with Frontiers in Agronomy and an Associate Editor of Weed Science (Weed Science Society of America). He has published over 350 articles in peer reviewed journals and several books and book chapters. He is an Honorary Member of Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) and a life member of International Weed Science Society (IWSS), Asia Pacific Weed Science Society (APWSS), and Indian Society of Weed Science (ISWS).

Solal Chauquet is an early career postdoctoral fellow focused on using genetic and genomics to investigate liver transplantation and liver diseases. He finished a master of Neuroscience at the Université de Bordeaux, a Master in Bioinformatics from the University of Queensland and recently his PhD genomics where he developed a specialized proficiency in the analysis of liver omics data.

Associate Professor Chawla is a senior clinician within the Respiratory and Sleep Department at Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH). She founded the Kids Sleep Research Group at the Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland (CHRC-UQ), and plays a pivotal role in embedding research within the clinical department to ensure meaningful impact for patients.​

Associate Professor Chawla’s research is deeply informed by her clinical practice and interactions with her patients and their families. Her PhD focused on evaluating the impact of sleep interventions on functional, cognitive and behavioural outcomes in children with Down syndrome and was supported by three fellowships. This formed the foundation of her interest in improving sleep for children with medical complexity. Over time, this has expanded to encompass broader efforts to enhance healthcare delivery and advocate for optimal care for these children and their families. As a result, A/Prof Chawla has strong partnerships with multiple disability consumer support organisations, is part of the leadership group for the UQ Disability Collaboratory and has been appointed as a board director for the not-for-profit organisation Child UnLimited .​

Associate Professor Chawla’s contributions have been recognised through multiple nominations for excellence in research awards at Children’s Health Queensland and UQ over the past three years, and she was a finalist for the Women in Technology QLD Emerging Achiever in Science award in 2022. In 2024 alone, she published 11 peer-reviewed papers while maintaining a 50% clinical role, contributing to a total of 44 peer-reviewed publications, 500 citations, and an h-index of 10.​ In 2025 A/Prof Chawla has received the Children’s Health Queensland Excellence in Research Award, and the 2025 Young Tall Poppy Science Awards.

Associate Professor Chawla has cultivated strong collaborative relationships with clinical teams at QCH, academic institutions, and clinician-researchers across Australia. Her leadership in MRFF-NHMRC funded research is complemented by support from philanthropic organisations such as Down Syndrome Queensland (DSQ) and industry partners including Fisher and Paykel and Sonomedical. She has extensive experience engaging with consumer organisations and has pioneered innovative methods to involve children and families in research, ensuring their voices are central to the process.​

Nationally, Associate Professor Chawla was elected as President of the Australasian Sleep Association (2024–2028), representing the sleep professional community, advocating for consumers, and contributing to the organisation’s strategic direction. Over the past three years, she has been invited to speak at major international and national conferences, including the International Paediatric Sleep Association Conference, the World Down Syndrome Congress, and the Australasian Society of Head and Neck Surgery Annual Conference.​

She regularly reviews for scientific journals and conferences, has served as a guest editor for Frontiers in Sleep, and is a senior editor for the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. Her commitment to mentorship is evident in her supervision of paediatric advanced trainees, medical and allied health students (6–10 annually), and her role as primary supervisor for a higher degree research student. She also supports industry placements for PhD students and mentors through the UQ Women in Leadership Course and the Child Unlimited Youth Mentorship Program.​

A/Prof. Seth Cheetham is an ARC Discovery Early Career Award Fellow and Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. He is also the Deputy Director of the BASE facility, Australia's leading mRNA manufacturing hub. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, supported by the Herchel Smith Research Studentship. Seth is a molecular biologist and geneticist with a focus on mRNA drugs, synthetic biology and epigenetics. He has authored 25 publications, in some of the most influential molecular biology journals including Science, Molecular Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics , Genome Biology and Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. His work has attracted > $15M including back-to-back NHMRC and ARC Fellowships. In 2021 Seth was awarded the Genetics Society of Australasia Alan Wilton ECR awarded for his research in the field of RNA and epigenetics.

• My academic qualifications include a PhD in Neurosciences, an MSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and a Bachelor of Medicine.
• I have initiated and managed multiple projects to develop novel therapeutics for neurological disorders, including: 1) Developing a nanoparticle-based siRNA delivery system for the treatment of Huntington’s disease (ARC project; as Postdoctoral Research Fellow). 2) Examining the treatment effects of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) on epilepsy (Advance Queensland Women’s Academic Fund; as Sole Investigator). 2) Examining the effectiveness of three neuroinflammation modulatory agents on traumatic brain injury and epilepsy through randomised controlled preclinical trials (Seed projects sponsored by industry partners: VivaZome Therapeutics, Implicit Bioscience, and Innate Immunotherapeutics; as Co-investigator). 3) Developing treatment strategies to prevent the development of epilepsy after severe traumatic brain injury and identifying medical imaging biomarkers to evaluate the risk of epilepsy post-injury (two U.S. Department of Defense, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs; as Co-investigator). 4) Developing exosomal therapy for traumatic brain injury (Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grant with two research groups from academic institutions and three pharmaceutical companies; as Principal Investigator).

Dr Chen’s research aims to understand the molecular details of how phosphatases, kinases and their associated proteins regulate cell signaling and homeostasis.

In 2011, Dr Chen completed his PhD on structural studies of macrophage proteins in Professor Jennifer Martin’s laboratory at The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience.

In 2012, Dr Chen secured a postdoctoral research position at Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) to work on the molecular insights of phosphatases and kinases interaction using the combination of X-ray crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering and chemical cross-linking coupled with mass spectrometry.

In 2015, he also received the Outstanding Young Postdoctoral Research Award from the Biophysics Society of Republic of China (Taiwan).

In June 2016, Dr Chen joined Associate Professor Brett Collins’ group at IMB, where he is working to understand how lipid kinases and lipid-binding proteins are involved in the regulation of cellular membrane transport.

Professor Chen graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. She has over twenty five years research experience in the areas of membrane separation, gas separation, biocatalytic systems, nanomaterials, and water treatment. She was professor of chemical engineering at the University of New South Wales from 2008 - 2018, the Director of the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology from 2006 - 2014 and head of school of chemical engineering fron 2014 - 2018. She is currently on the editorial board for the Journal of Membrane Science and was formerly on the editorial board for Desalination Journal. Professor Chen was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture, and IT at the University of Queensland from 2018 - 2022 and Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Technology from 2022 - 2025.

She currently holds ARC Discovery grants focussed on application of nanomaterials in membrane separation and had recently held funding from diverse sources such as CO2CRC, Coal Innovation NSW, ARC Linkage program, and CRC-P (Printed Energy). She is on the the advisory boards for the GETCO2 ARC Centre of Excellence and the Carbon Science and Innovation ARC Centre of Excellence.

Jeff Chen is a pyrometallurgist with strong expertise in high-temperature phase equilibria and gas/solid reaction kinetics. He has over 15 years of research experience in extractive metallurgy, focusing on metals such as Cu, Pb, Ni, PGM, and Fe, through ongoing research collaborations with major mining and metal producers worldwide. Jeff has successfully secured over 10 million dollars in research funds from the Australian government and industry, primarily through funding schemes like ARC linkage and Trailblazer. His contributions to the field include the publication of over 60 papers in leading journals and major conferences in metallurgy, and he was awarded the Best Paper Award from TMS in 2021.

In addition, Jeff is a recognised expert in various quantitative microanalysis techniques, including electron microprobe (WDS) and laser ablation ICP-MS. His specialization lies in the application of quantitative microanalysis in the field of extractive metallurgy. He played a pioneering role in implementing LA-ICP-MS for trace element analysis in metallurgical materials and has consistently contributed to the development of new standard reference materials for sulfides and alloys. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the state representative for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in the Australian Microbeam Analysis Society.

Furthermore, Jeff has been actively involved in university teaching, covering subjects such as chemical thermodynamics, pyrometallurgy, and metal production and recycling

Learning a foreign language is hard. Studying overseas in a foreign language is even harder!

Universities in Australia have up to 40% international students, that's 400,000+ students and makes up a significant portion of the Australian economy. These students face immense struggles adapting to Australian culture, language and education style. Without help, these students get lost in the complexities of higher-education and cannot successfully graduate.

Shaun's work involves developing innovative solutions with partner universities across the greater Asian regions though contextualised development programs, workshops that highlight modern teaching, and assisting students in acclimatising to their study-life in Australia. Shaun works heavily with China, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Dr. Qiaomin Chen is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability (AGFS) at the University of Queensland (UQ). Before receiving her PhD in Agricultural Science at UQ, she completed a Master’s degree in Physical Geography at UCAS and a Bachelor’s degree in Geographical Information System at WHT in China. With a solid foundation across earth and agricultural sciences, she has consistently pursued interdisciplinary learning and collaboration, actively exploring innovative solutions at the interface of geoscience and agriculture. Her diverse background empowers her to tackle real-world challenges in agricultural production.

She is particularly passionate about developing and applying advanced technologies in precision agriculture and modern crop breeding to improve efficiency and sustainability. She works at the intersection of plant phenotyping, crop modelling, machine learning and climate adaptation. Her current research focuses on leveraging integrative modelling approaches to inform field experiment design, optimize phenotyping strategies, and support crop growth monitoring across spatial and temporal scales.