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Dr Yoon Kwon Choi is a final stage psychiatry registrar in Brisbane and an associate lecturer at The University of Queensland. Dr Choi has worked in various health services including Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Children's Health Queensland, Mater Hospital, and Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH). He is dual advanced training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, and passionate in advocating for our neurodiverse population as well as culturally and linguistically diverse people. He was awarded the Beverely Raphael New Investigator Research Grant in 2024 by The Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).

Outside of clinical work and academia, he sits on multiple leadership and advocacy roles including President of Queensland Psychiatry Trainee Association (QPTA), Queensland's jurisdictional representative for RANZCP Bi-National Committee for Trainees (BCT), student course representative at University of Leeds, bi-national trainee representative of RANZCP Emergency Department Steering Group (EDSG) and RANZCP Section of Psychiatry of Intellectual and Developmental Disability (SPIDD).

He is also undertaking further training with The Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) to pursue associate fellowship, whilst completing his Masters in Biomedical and Healthcare Ethics at University of Leeds with part scholarship awarded by IDEA: The Ethics Centre.

Bobae is an Associate Professor of Accounting with a specialisation in financial accounting and financial analysis. Her research expertise encompasses various areas within accounting, including financial reporting, corporate governance, CEO compensation, corporate social responsibility (CSR)/ESG, and carbon accounting. Bobae’s research focuses on exploring the relationship between corporate financial and non-financial information and firm performance. Her work has been published in several top-tier A/A* journals, such as Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, and British Accounting Review.

In addition to her research publications, Bobae has served as an academic reviewer for various prestigious journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics, European Accounting Review, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Accounting and Finance, Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting, Economic Modelling, and Journal of Business Research. Her role as an academic reviewer highlights her expertise and dedication to maintaining high research standards in the accounting field. She is also a member of the Technical Committee for AFAANZ (Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand) and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Australian Accounting Review.

Bobae is also passionate about teaching and has been coordinating and teaching introductory and intermediate financial accounting courses, as well as financial statement analysis and valuation courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Dr. Ki Young Choi has been a researcher and educator in the field of Korean language, conducting research and teaching at universities in Korea, Thailand, and Australia since 2010. His key research interests include the critical analysis of Korean textbooks. Dr. Choi employs methods such as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Visual Image Analysis (VIA) to examine how ideologies, norms, and cultural values are represented in educational materials. His work significantly contributes to understanding and improving the quality of Korean language education internationally, aligning with broader efforts to promote Korean language and culture globally.

Dr Hasibul Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Queensland Business School. Dr Chowdhury holds BBA (Finance) and MBA (Banking) from the University of Dhaka, MBA (Finance) from Tulane University, and PhD (Finance) from the University of Queensland. In addition, he obtained the HEA fellowship (FHEA) from Advance HE, UK. His teaching philosophy is to ensure a high-quality learning environment in the classroom for the students by encouraging active learning methods so that students have clarity in their learning experiences.

Dr Chowdhury’s research focuses on corporate finance and executives’ labor market incentives. His research work has been published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, European Accounting Review, British Accounting Review, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Financial Stability, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Research, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Global Finance Journal, Accounting and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, Australian Journal of Management, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (JIFMA).

Silvia Chowdhury is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. She received her PhD in Materials Science from AIBN, UQ in May 2025. Prior to that, she earned a Master of Science (by Research) in Mechatronics Engineering from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). Her current research focuses on the design and fabrication of metal-organic frameworks with precisely tailored composition and morphology to optimise their performance in gas sensing and biosensing applications.

I am a consumer co-researcher with lived experience of disability, working in the disability advocacy and entrepreneurship space. I have an MBA (Health Services Management & Entrepreneurship), lecture in health services management (KBS) and co-design in health innovation (QUT) and am a social impact founder of disability owned and led ventures including the Women with Disabilities Entrepreneur Network (WDEN), Champion Health Agency, SHH!T Happens and Against the Grain Coffee.

My research aims to elevate the lived experience of health consumers, especially fellow health system 'frequent flyers' - people with chronic illness and disability. Improving how we create consumer researcher career pathways and better partner with the community is of great interest, and improve the holistic experience of people with chronic illness and disability within the healthcare system and beyond. I have engaged as a health consumer and disability advocate on state, national and international stages, committees and projects, and received the QLD Young Achiever of the Year Leadership (2020) and Women in Technology Consumer Strength Champion Award (2023), and health service research and quality improvement excellence awards (2022-3).

Work that I am most proud of includes co-leading the development of a Health Service Co-Design Framework for Metro North Health, freely accessible online - https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/get-involved/co-design

I have a special interest in consumer and community involvement in research and co-design, having coordinated consumer engagement for a range of projects and events, facilitated workshops with diverse stakeholders in research institutes and health services, and first hand experience as a co-design participant and consumer representative.

Robynne is a water resources engineer with 15 years of experience in research and consulting. She currently works as a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Environmental Responsibility where her focus is on mine water management and the impacts of mine affected water for all stages of the mine life cycle. She has worked with mining companies in Australia, Asia and Africa to address various aspects of mine water and environmental management and has extensive experience in hydrological, hydraulic and water quality assessments and management. Prior to joining SMI, Robynne worked in consulting, where she contributed to a diverse range of projects related to urban and industrial drainage, creek diversions, water management, erosion and sediment control, mine closure and rehabilitation, green urban development and estuarine modelling. Robynne has experience collaborating with Indigenous rangers to co-develop monitoring systems for wetlands and salt lake systems on Country.

Dr Yunil Chu is a highly experienced offshore engineer and researcher with extensive expertise across both industry and academia. Before transitioning into academia, he spent a decade in ship and offshore newbuilding, successfully delivering more than 20 projects and gaining deep insight into industry requirements, challenges, and expectations. Since earning his PhD from the University of Queensland in 2021, Dr Chu has focused his research on advancing offshore farming systems for renewable energy and aquaculture, validating concepts through cutting-edge numerical modelling and experimental testing in collaboration with industry leaders and the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre. He also holds a key leadership role as the primary organiser and session chair of the Blue Economy Symposium at the International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering (OMAE), where he has overseen more than 50 paper submissions and engaged with over 1,000 participants annually.

I am a primary health care researcher with unique insights into the development of practical solutions for the delivery of general practice and allied health care. My core strengths are pragmatic implementation and evaluation methods, leading advocacy for evidence-based practice and policy change and bringing multidisciplinary teams of researchers and community stakeholders together to perform meaningful, co-developed research partnerships. My interests are multicultural health care equity, primary care systems innovation, pragmatic use of primary care data to improve services and outcomes and strengthening how primary care supports healthier lifestyles.

I prioritise collaborative cross-disciplinary partnerships. Not only do I contribute to impact and knowledge creation at the UQ Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing, I also work at the UQ Centre for Health Services Research and I am an adjunct at the UQ General Practice Clinical Unit. My contributions to the field extend beyond UQ; I am a Research, Collaborations and Audits Manager at a not-for-profit general practice clinic, Inala Primary Care, giving me an invaluable look of what work at the ‘coalface’ is really like and how we should shape our research and innovations to leverage real-world strengths and meet the practical challenges.

I am collaborative and deeply value progress towards greater health care equity for all, especially people from priority populations.

Dr Kai-Hsiang Chuang received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and biomedical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2001. During his graduate study, he developed methods for improving the detection of brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He undertook postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health, USA, from 2003 to 2007, where he focused on understanding brain connectivity using novel functional and molecular imaging. He developed manganese-enhanced MRI for high-resolution imaging functional neural pathways in the rodent brain and cerebral blood flow imaging for mapping the resting-state network of the human brain. He joined the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, in 2008 as the head of MRI Group in the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (a national research institute). He established the first preclinical imaging facility in Singapore and facilitated research collaboration across academia, clinic and industry. His lab pioneered functional connectivity imaging of the rodent brain to understand the neural basis and function of resting-state brain network, and the development and application of MRI biomarkers for treatment development. In late 2015, he moved to the University of Queensland, Australia, as an Associate Professor with the Queensland Brain Institute and the Centre for Advanced Imaging. His current research focuses on understanding the structure and function of brain network that underlies cognition and behavior, such as learning, memory and dementia. He is developing multimodal techniques, including fMRI, calcium recording, electrophysiology and optogenetic/chemogenetic neuromodulation, to test hypothesis in transgenic mouse models and then translating to humans to improve the diagnosis and intervention of disorders. The imaging and analysis techniques he developed have been widely used in the research community and some in clinical trials. He is serving on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Neuroscience: Brain Imaging Methods, Imaging Neuroscience and Scientific Reports.

Professor Eric Chung holds a full professorial academic appointment at the University of Queensland. He has also been appointed Associate Professor of Surgery at Macquarie University Hospital (Sydney) and has a Visiting Professorship at the Hong Kong University-Shenzhen Hospital. He is a certified Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ). He is widely recognized as both Australia's leading surgeon and international expert in the field of male sexual, urinary, and reproductive health.

Professor Chung is the youngest recipient of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ) Medal for outstanding contribution to the Society and was Past Chair of the male LUTS and Andrology sections. He serves as an Advisor on the Panel of Clinical Experts (PoCE) for the Australian Government Department of Health. Internationally, he sits in executive positions in various organisations such as the President-elect of the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM), Chair of the Education and Research Office on Sexual Medicine (EROS) at the Asia Pacific Society of Sexual Medicine (APSSM), and member of the International Research Working Group for the American Urological Association (AUA).

Professor Chung has a public appointment as a consultant urological surgeon at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, in charge of the urinary reconstructive and prosthetic urology program. He is the first urologist in Australia to complete an Andrology Fellowship accredited by the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) in 2010. Andrology is the study of Men’s Health, relating to male urinary, sexual and reproductive functions. He also received formal fellowship training in Urinary Reconstructive and Prosthesis Surgery in 2009 from Dr Ross Cartmill OAM, who is regarded as the father of modern urologic prosthesis in Australia. He is the only urologist in USANZ invited to serve on the recent 5th International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM) and the 7th International Consultation on Incontinence (ICI). He has been invited as a speaker and surgeon mentor at many national and international meetings, and authored more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters (including 10 major international and national guidelines)..

Jen Jen Chung is an Associate Professor in Mechatronics within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland. Her current research interests include perception, planning and learning for robotic mobile manipulation, algorithms for robot navigation through human crowds, informative path planning and adaptive sampling. Prior to working at UQ, Jen Jen was a Senior Researcher in the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) at ETH Zürich from 2018-2022 and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Oregon State University researching multiagent learning methods from 2014-2017. She completed her Ph.D. on information-based exploration-exploitation strategies for autonomous soaring platforms at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics in the University of Sydney. She received her Ph.D. (2014) and B.E. (2010) from the University of Sydney.

Dr Hsin-Fang Chung is an epidemiologist and Research Fellow at the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre, School of Public Health. She is also an adjunct Collaborative Researcher at the Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR), Gunma University (2024-). Prior to this, Hsin-Fang completed her PhD on lifestyle and genetic risk factors of diabetic complications at UQ in 2015. She has a multidisciplinary educational background, spanning nursing, nutrition, public health, and epidemiology, and has worked in clinical and non-clinical sectors. Chung held UQ Research Stimulus Fellowship (2021-2022) and UQ Promoting Women Fellowship (2022).

Dr Chung has a track record of applying quantitative and modelling skills in women's health epidemiology. She has published more than 45 peer-reviewed publications and two book chapters. Hsin-Fang’s research focuses on women’s reproductive history (i.e., menarche, menstrual disorders, endometriosis, fertility issues, pregnancy complications, and menopause) in relation to chronic diseases in later life, particularly cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. She uses high-quality data pooling from multiple epidemiological, cohort, and data-linkage studies in the InterLACE consortium to tackle critical knowledge gaps and inform practice and policy to develop long-term monitoring strategies for women with adverse reproductive histories. Her research pays particular attention to priority groups, including women from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

I have a long track record in cephalopod biology, as a taxonomist (Guide to the Cephalopods of Taiwan), scientific diver, visual neuroscientist, brain imaging pioneer in cephalopods. My work has deepened our understanding of morphological and functional adaptations of the fish and cephalopod visual system in the marine environment and shown ecological links to ambient light and behavioural tasks. I am also at the forefront of high-resolution MRI-based imaging technology tailored explicitly for studying cephalopod brains. My recent work has established analysis protocols to investigate the gross neuroanatomy and underlying neural networks amongst cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus).