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Qualifications:

• PhD (Civil Engineering), The University of Queensland, Australia.
• M.Eng (Civil Engineering), The University of Queensland, Australia.
• Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, The University of Queensland, Australia.
• B.Eng (Civil Engineering), The University of Danang, Vietnam.

Vinh Dao is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland, where he has been since 2009. He is currently the UQ-IITD Research Academy Theme Lead for Advanced materials and manufacturing. He was the School Director of Teaching and Learning (2020-2021), School Deputy Director of Research (2019) and Structures Discipline Lead (2022-2026).

He has been an elected National Councillor of the Concrete Institute of Australia (2013-2023, 2025-ongoing), responsible for "Concrete In Australia" Magazine (2013-2019) and "Technical & Publications" portfolio (2019-2023). He is currently also (i) Chair of the Organising Committee for Concrete2027 - the Concrete Institute of Australia’s 33rd Biennial National Conference, (ii) co-Vice-Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Engineering Structures (ICES2026), (iii) an Associate Editor of Australian Journal of Structural Engineering and (iv) the General Secretary of EASEC International Steering Committee. He was (i) the Vice-Chair of the 16th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering & Construction and (ii) an invited presenter of the National Seminar Series on “Early-age cracking in concrete structures” in capital cities around Australia, besides many state/industry seminars.

Vinh's research interests are in the broad areas of structural engineering and fundamental behaviour of concrete/structures. The focus of his research has been on connecting materials behaviour to structural response of concrete in order to address major issues facing construction industry; with current emphasis on (i) performance of concrete structures at early ages and at elevated temperatures and (ii) low carbon concretes.

In teaching, he has been lecturing in the areas of structural mechanics, reinforced and prestressed concrete design, concrete technology, and advanced structural engineering. He has received a few nominations for the most effective lecturer from UQ-EAIT Dean’s commendation students and was profiled in Learning@UQ for having contributed to high quality of the student experience at UQ.

Dr. Sébastien Darchen holds a PhD in Urban Studies obtained in 2008 at Institut de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-Urbanisation) in Montreal, Canada.

His main research area is about the political economy of the built environment. He studies the strategies of urban stakeholders (Developers, City Planners, Urban Designers) involved in the provision of the built environment especially in urban regeneration contexts He is also interested in cultural planning and in developing practical solutions to sustain creativity in cities and create great places in cities (place-making).

Topics: Urban regeneration; Land-use planning; Political economy of the built environment; Cultural history of cities; Place-making

Professor Dargusch is currently the the Associate Dean (Research) of UQ's Engineering, Architecture and Information Technolgy Faculty. He is the Chief Technology Officer of the Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC) and was the Director and lead CI of the ARC Research Hub for Advanced Manufacturing of Medical Devices. He was also a CI and Qld node lead in the ARC Research Hub for Transforming Australia’s Manufacturing Industry through High-Value Additive Manufacturing. He has mentored individuals across academia and industry, supervising over 40 postgraduate projects to completion. His former PhD students now hold senior industry roles, and others have become successful academics, including ARC DECRA and Future Fellows and Professors.

Prof. Dargusch completed his PhD in 1998 and in the same year he published his first journal paper which has been cited more than 1300 times. He has a strong background in working on industry-outcome focussed research. After completing his PhD, he worked in manufacturing and product development in industry before moving being appointed as Program Manager for both the Aerospace and Industry Best Practice Program Manager with the CAST CRC. During his time as program manager the best practice program received a number of awards from the Cooperative Research Centres Association for delivering industry outcomes.

Professor Dargusch is recognised as an international expert in materials and manufacturing with over 20 years of research leadership. He is currently an Editor of Progress in Materials Science (I.F. > 40) with two recent Science papers. He received a 2020 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning at the Australian Awards for University Teaching, and he is currently the Associate Dean (Research) of UQ's EAIT Faculty.

The impact of Professor Dargusch’s work and contribution to the field of advanced manufacturing has been recognised with the Thatcher Brothers Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in the UK, The Anders Gustaf Ekberg Prize in 2019, the Technology Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society in 2017, and two papers published in Science and leading manufacturing journals (Int J Mach Tools Manuf (2009) 49, 561-568 and Int J Mach Tools Manuf (2011) 51, 500-511), Additive Manufacturing (Addit Manuf (2022) 59, 103176 and Addit Manuf (2022) 55, 102887); Acta Biomaterialia and Electochemica Acta. He currently has 12 Highly Cited Papers, including one first-author paper in Advanced Science (Adv Sci (2020) 7:18, 2001362) and a corresponding author paper published in Advanced Materials (Impact Factor 32.09) (Adv Mat (2022) 34:41, 2204508), a paper in Progress in Materials Science (Impact Factor 48.16) (Prog Mater Sci (2021) 121, 100840). One of his highly cited papers is the second most cited article in Acta Materialia (Acta Mater (2019) 168, 261-274) published in that year. His high quality work in additive manufacturing has also been published in Nature Communications (Nat Comm (2022) 13:1, 4660) and as corresponding author of a highly cited article published in Science. The impact of his work in advanced manufacturing was recognised by the Star Award from the Cooperative Research Association in 2010 and the “Aerospace Australia Industry SME Innovation Award” in 2010.

CI Dargusch has more than 400 publications with a total citation count of 31384 and h-index of 89 (Google Scholar 7/2025). He has been recognised as one of Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2020, 2023, and 2024. His publications have a Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) of 2.32 (SciVal, 11/2024). He has 12 Highly Cited Papers (papers in the top 1% citation percentile worldwide) (WoS 11/2024). 33% of his publications are in the top 10% citation percentile worldwide, and 55.7% of his publications are in the top 10% journals.

He consistently publishes in high-quality journals in fields directly relevant to the field of this application including Materials Science, Manufacturing, and Energy Materials. He has 50 high-quality publications in the field of metal additive manufacturing alone including 1 in Science (IF=47.73), 1 in Nature Communications (IF=14.7), and 10 in Additive Manufacturing (IF=10.3). He also has a strong track record in energy materials including another article published in Science, 2 in Energy and Environmental Science (IF=32.4), 4 in Advanced Materials (IF=27.4), 2 in Advanced Energy Materials (IF=27.8), 5 Nano Energy (IF=16.8), 1 in Progress in Materials Science (IF=33.6), and 1 in Advanced Science (IF=15.1). His strong background in all three fields provide a solid foundation for this project. Other prestigious journals where he has published include Adv Funct Mater, Acta Mater, Acta Biomater, Biomaterials, Int J Mach Tools Manuf, and Scr Mater.

Prof Dargusch has been successful in obtaining over $10 million in competitive and industry grant funding since 2018 and an additional $2.95 million through the Queensland Government’s Innovation Projects Fund since 2006. He is also a chief investigator on 6 x ARC LPs, 4 x ARC DPs, 2 x ARC ITRH and 7 x ARC LIEF grants and lead investigator on 1 DEST (now DIISR) International Science Linkages Program – Australia-China Special Fund Grant. He was awarded a Smart Future Fund RPP grant of $405,000 as lead investigator for a project focussed on the “Development of Next Generation Endovascular Grafts”(2012-2015). Most recently Professor Dargusch was successful as a CI on a $ 50 Million MRFF Artificial Heart Frontiers Program grant. He has a wide range of industry funded research projects with partners such as Cook Medical, Stryker, Airbus, Boeing and Baosteel.

Prof Dargusch’s ability to transfer research outcomes to industry is provided by the case study on titanium technology submitted by Prof Dargusch as lead investigator to the Excellence in Innovation for Australia trial in 2012. The submission was rated A for outstanding impacts in terms of reach and significance.

Prof. Dargusch’s primary research interests are associated with addressing the major technical challenges facing Australian metal manufacturers in order to assist them to participate more effectively in global supply chains and the development of improved medical devices. His aim is to use his research to impact the ability of Australian companies, to develop and integrate advanced manufacturing technologies particularly in the production of high value components for Aircraft, Maritime and Medical Device applications.

In biostatistics, the real measure of good work is not the journal’s impact factor or the size of the grant, but whether the analysis is honest, the methods are fit for purpose, and the findings can be trusted to guide decisions. Dr Darssan aims to do this kind of work: careful, transparent, and selective within focused teams of like-minded colleagues where statistical thinking is shared rather than outsourced. The goal remains constant: better evidence that ultimately advances modelling of geographical patterns and environmental impacts.

His research centres on applying and extending statistical methods, particularly spatial and environmental approaches, to address practical problems in complex observational and environmental data. He remains committed to transparent, reproducible practice and to mentoring the next generation of applied spatial and environmental modellers.

Dr Darssan values teaching that builds genuine statistical confidence rather than surface-level competence. His approach centres on active learning, real-world data, and creating an environment that encourages students to ask questions, challenge ideas, and think critically. He uses R-based workshops, practical case studies, and structured discussion to develop computational skill, logical reasoning, and critical judgement. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), he remains committed to reflective, student-centred practice that prepares learners to use statistics thoughtfully in their future work. He has taught approximately 1,300 postgraduate and 1,000 undergraduate students in foundational and applied statistics, and has supervised 9 Master’s dissertations and 8 PhD students to completion.

He values service as service, not as a means of promotion or personal return, but as a genuine commitment to helping others. Externally, he contributed as Statistics Editor for Clinical Toxicology, Associate Editor for Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health, President of the Statistical Society of Australia – Queensland Branch, Webinar Coordinator for the Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences section of the American Statistical Association, and Social Media Editor for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. He also regularly reviews manuscripts and examines research theses.

Within the University, he has served as Program Director of the Bachelor of Health Sciences, co-founder of the Environmental Epidemiology Research Group, Engagement Coordinator for current students, PhD progress review chair and thesis examiner. He also developed the School’s LinkedIn presence. He particularly values conversations with like-minded people who undertake service for its own sake, rather than for personal benefit.

As a service statistician, Dr Darssan has spent years supporting investigator-initiated clinical trials, contributing to study design, randomisation, protocol development, statistical analysis plans, final reports, and data safety monitoring. He has provided statistical expertise to clinicians and researchers across ophthalmology, nephrology, rheumatology, endocrinology, and health services research.

Dr Darsy Darssan is a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics at The University of Queensland’s School of Public Health. He holds three degrees in Statistics from mathematical sciences schools: a BSc (Hons) from the University of Jaffna (2005), an MAppSc from RMIT University (2008), and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology (2014). His early career included roles at the Australian Council for Educational Research, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Wollongong, followed by postdoctoral research in biostatistics at the University of Liverpool, UK. He returned to Australia in late 2015 and has been at UQ ever since.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Dr Alan Davidson is a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia. He practiced law for more than a decade before moving into academia full time. He was engaged as an Assistant Professor at Bond University, lecturer at Queensland University of Technology including acting Head of School, and Associate Dean at James Cook University before commencing at the University of Queensland in 1997.

Since 2011 Dr Davidson has participated in UNCITRAL Working Group IV in Vienna and New York biannually, and in 2014 was invited to join its Panel of Experts to assist with the future directions of the Working Group.He is a Director and Fellow of UNCCA (UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee Australia) and is its Education Director arranging for students nationally to attend Working Group sessions (64 students to date). Dr Davidson's PhD is in the field of international banking law, specifically Letters of Credit Transactions. He is a Fellow of the Institute of International Banking Law and Practice and a member of the Asia Advisory Council and the Council of International Standby Practices of the Institute. He regularly speaks at the conferences for the Institute in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. He presents courses at the TC Beirne School of Law in International Trade Law, International Trade Finance Law, Banking Law and Electronic Commerce Law. He has been a visiting academic in the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and China.

His book Social Media and Electronic Commerce Law has been published in 2 editions by Cambridge University Press. He has also published The Internet for Lawyers and The Internet for Accountants and numerous interactive computer based workbooks and teaching manuals. He was joint author of two editions of the monograph Company Meetings. His publications have appeared in the Australian Law Journal, the Journal of International Banking and Finance Law, the Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education and the International Trade Law Annual. For nine years he authored over 100 articles for Queensland Law Society Journal, Proctor on CyberLaw.

Robert Davidson is Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of Queensland. After studying composition with Terry Riley, he formed his quintet Topology, resident at the Brisbane Powerhouse, with whom he regularly tours internationally in venues including New York's Lincoln Center and London's Barbican, and works with a wide range of collaborators such as the Brodsky Quartet, Kate Miller-Heidke, Megan Washington, Katie Noonan, TaikOz and Trichotomy. His music is focused on stylistic pluralism, intersections between music and language, and improvisation. His research focuses on modelling musical intelligence, qualitative studies of creativity and collaboration, music's relationship with language, and practice-based research.

Adjunct Professor Iyla Davies OAM was admitted as a lawyer and practiced in family law and personal injuries before becoming a law academic for 23 years specialising in mediation and dispute resolution.

She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Metro South Hospital and Health Service, UQ Residences Ltd and Chair of the All Hallows’ School Board. She also serves as a member of the ProBono Fundraising Committee of the UQ Law School.

She has held the roles of Assistant Dean (International, Commercial and Community Engagement) QUT and Head of College of the Women’s College UQ.

She has also been a Director of the Legal Aid Board Queensland, member of the Specialist Accreditation Board Queensland Law Society and National and Queensland President of Relationships Australia and National President of University Colleges Australia.

She was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to education and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of Women Chiefs of Enterprises International.

Eminent Staff Specialist in Neonatology (Consultant Neonatologist) - Grantley Stable Neonatal Unit, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Neonatology - Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Queensland

Mark Davies is a medical graduate of the University of Queensland (MB,BS 1985). He trained in Paediatrics at the Royal Children's Hospital (Brisbane), with time at the Worcester Royal Infirmary, Doncaster Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Glasgow) in the UK.

Mark sub-specialised in Neonatology training at the Royal Women's Hospital (Brisbane), the Rosie Maternity Hospital (Cambridge) and the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital. His advanced training was conducted under the supervision of the Neonatal-Perinatal Specialist Advisory Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and he became a Fellow of the RACP in 1997. He completed a two year fellowship training programme in Neonatology and Neonatal Ultrasound at the Royal Women's Hospital (Melbourne) in January 1999.

In July 2000, Mark was appointed to the joint position of Staff Neonatologist at the Royal Women's Hospital, Brisbane and Senior Lecturer in Neonatology at the University of Queensland. He is now an Eminent Staff Specialist in Neonatology and an Associate Professor of Neonatology.

Mark Davies’ research focused on neonatal ventilation. He did his PhD studies on partial liquid ventilation. He supervises projects in neonatology and neonatal intensive care.

Mark prepares and maintains a number of Cochrane systematic reviews in neonatology and intensive care. From 2002 to 2006 he served on the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group, and was Co-Chair of the steering group from 2005 to 2006. He was a Director of The Cochrane Collaboration Trading Company from 2013 to 2017.

Dr Jonathan Davies is a chronic pain researcher working to improve how pain is understood, assessed and treated. His research focuses on pain phenotyping, precision pain care, and the psychological, physiological and contextual factors that shape pain and treatment response.

At UQ’s Centre for Innovation in Pain and Health Research, he contributes to DISCERN, an NHMRC Synergy-funded multidisciplinary research program developing and validating new approaches to pain assessment. A major focus of his work is DECIPHER PAIN, a standardised, multimodal tool designed to characterise the relative contributions of nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain and support more personalised care.

His research integrates clinical assessment, quantitative sensory testing, experimental pain methods, psychophysiology, digital health and population data. He is particularly interested in how physiological signals, behaviour, language, psychosocial context and real-world health data can be combined to better understand individual differences in pain and treatment outcomes.

His broader expertise includes placebo and nocebo effects, mindfulness, mental health, quality of life, health outcome measurement and population health. His work aims to support more precise, scalable and patient-centred approaches to pain research and care.

Dr Sara Davies (née Herke) received her PhD in mathematics in 2014. She has also published under the names Sarada Herke and Sara Herke.

Background

Dr Karen Davies is a Clinician Research Fellow jointly appointed with Queensland Health, the Herston Infectious Diseases Institute (HeIDI) and The University of Queensland, and works as Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC), Safe Medication Practice at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. Her work focuses on medication safety, nursing practice improvement, medication administration, antimicrobial administration, and vascular access management.

Karen began her nursing career in 1979, completed a Bachelor of Nursing in 1994, commenced her research journey in 2014, and was awarded her PhD in 2020.

Karen's principal research focus is the implementation and evaluation of the Medication Administration Evaluation and Feedback Tool (MAEFT), which she developed through her doctoral research. MAEFT provides a structured approach to observing, evaluating and supporting nurses' medication administration practices, with the aim of improving clinical performance, reducing medication-related risks, and enhancing patient outcomes.

Through her clinical and academic roles, Karen works to bridge the gap between research and practice by developing practical, evidence-based solutions that support nursing staff, strengthen medication safety systems, and improve healthcare quality across diverse clinical settings.

Current areas of expertise include:

• Medication administration and nursing practice
• Safe medication practice and medication safety
• Antimicrobial administration
• Vascular access management
• Clinical audit, feedback and quality improvement
• Translation of research into clinical practice

Professor Matthew Davis is a theoretical and computational physicist. His main research area is non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems, and he particularly focuses on the platform of ultracold quantum gases. He particularly enjoys connecting theory with experiment, and has published several high impact papers with several international experimental groups.

His specific research areas include:

• Non-equilibrium dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates and other quantum gases;
• Superfluidity, vortices, and quantum turbulence;
• Dynamics of phase transitions and formation of topological defects;
• Relaxation of isolated quantum systems and quantum thermodynamics;
• Computational methods for quantum systems.

He did his undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, before completing his PhD at the University of Oxford in 2001 under the supervision of Sir Professor Keith Burnett. He started at the University of Queensland in 2002, became a teaching and research academic in 2004, and was promoted to Professor in 2013. He was recently a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (2018-25), and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (2017-24).

His personal webpage can be found here: https://people.smp.uq.edu.au/MatthewDavis/

William Davis studied biology at Vanderbilt University and obtained his medical doctor at Lousiana State University New Orleans. He completed post graduate training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at Ochsner Medical Center and the University of Michigan. While a rheumatology fellow at the University of Michigan, he was actively involved in T Cell immunology research in the lab of Dr David Fox. In 1991 he joined Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans as a staff physician and teaching faculty member. At Ochsner his clinical research interests have included functional status in systemic lupus, emerging drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and psoriatic arthritis. Recent translational research has included the role of T follicular helper cells in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, and the role of nutrition in systemic lupus.