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Dr. Haoran Duan is a Senior Research Fellow, and an ARC Industry Fellow at Australian Centre of Water and Environmental Biotechnology (ACWEB, formerly AWMC), and School of Chemical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2019 at Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC) and then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering (UQ) til June 2021. His research focuses on carbon and energy efficient wastewater treatment technologies, greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment processes, and excess sludge management. He has published >50 fully refereed journal papers with citations > 2,100, and received Environmental Science & Technology Best Papers award (2018). He is an editor (comm) of Water Research X. He serves in the editorial board of Frontiers of Environmental Science Engineering. He is a member of the International Water Association (IWA), Australia Water Association (AWA), and Engineers Australia (EA). He is a reviewer for more than 20 international journals. Dr. Haoran Duan can supervise Ph.D/M.phil student.

Teaching and Learning:

• Lecturer in Industrial Wastewater & Solid Waste Management (CHEE4012)
• Lecturer in Process & Control System Synthesis (CHEE4060)
• Supervisor in Thesis project (CHEE4007/4027)

Adrian grew up in Perth and double majored in Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Australia. Soonafter, he ventured to Canberra to undertake a PhD, focussing on analytic number theory: an enchanting area where one perplexingly uses calculus and analysis to study discrete structures such as the set of prime numbers.

After this, he worked as a derivatives trader at Optiver APAC for five years and stayed on there as Head of Academic Partnerships. He currently straddles both industry and academia and believes they both have much to offer mathematicians.

Adrian is available (and invariably keen) to supervise honours, masters and PhD projects in analytic number theory.

S. Dufau is a clinical researcher at Mater Research (Brisbane, Australia) and The University of Queensland, with an affiliate appointment at the Queensland Brain Institute. He works at the intersection of epilepsy and cognitive science within the Mater Epilepsy Unit Research Group. Trained in biophysics and biostatistics, he is interested in study design, data analysis, and the modelling of biological and behavioural data.

I completed my PhD at the Australian National University in 2015 working on modelling and simulation of ion specific effects working with Drew Parsons and Barry Ninham. I then completed postdoctoral research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State working with Christopher Mundy and Gregory Schenter on quantum mechanical molecular dynamics simulation and modelling of electrolyte solution before coming to the University of Queensland to work on electrochemcial enery storage. I am currently working on my DECRA project on improving the prediction of electrolyte solution properties for improved electrochemical energy storage.

Kirsty teaches in the areas of financial and management accounting. Her current research interests include the antecedents and consequences of environmental performance, corporate environmental strategies, and the relationship between the voluntary disclosure of non-financial information and financial performance.

Dr Stephanie Duncombe is a Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Her research intersects understanding inequalities in physical activity through epidemiological methods and tailored interventions to reduce these inequalities using health promotion frameworks. Stephanie has specific interests in gender inequalities and paediatrics. Stephanie completed her PhD on high-intensity interval training within schools and led an intervention study titled Making a HIIT. She has a multidisciplinary background, including epidemiology, exercise physiology, and health promotion. Stephanie is also a Lecturer at the School of Public Health and coordinates courses related to work-integrated learning and health promotion.

Originally from Ireland, Rebecca Dunlop completed her BSc (Honours) degree in Environmental Biology followed by her PhD in fish neuroethology, both from The Queen’s University of Belfast. She migrated Australia in 2004 to undertake a post-doc in humpback whale social communication at UQ where the research resulted in a number of highly cited papers, solidifying her international reputation as a leader and expert in large whale communication and social behaviour. She then began lecturing in the School of Veterinary Science in 2010, mainly in animal physiology and moved to the School of Biological Sciences in 2021 to take up a lecturing position in animal behaviour and physiology.

Research

Rebecca'a research interests are in animal physiology, behaviour, and communication. She mainly works on humpback whales, though has worked on bottlenose dolphins, beaked whales, pilot whales, and false killer whales. Her lab focuses on four main research areas: cetacean acoustic communication, hearing, and behaviour; the effects of noise on humpback communication, behaviour, and physiology; humpback whale social behaviour; and endocrine physiology in cetaceans. Her past and current PhD students and honours students all work within these core research areas.

She is, or has been, a P.I in several large collaborative projects aimed at determining the effects of noise on large whale behaviour and hearing in large whales. Understanding underwater noise impacts on marine mammals is a scientific area that is growing due to interest from the Navy, Oil and Gas companies, the vessel industry and from other ocean stakeholders such as whale watching companies.

Her work on social behaviour and reproductive behaviour uses a combination of behavioural and physiological indicators of reproductive status as well as stress and she currently has an endocrinology lab based at Moreton Bay Research Station. She also collaborates with researchers within the school of veterinary science to develop projects on large whale health and disease.

Mitch is an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow in the UQ Composites group within the Centre for Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing (AMPAM).

Mitch's research focuses on creating structures that have electromagnetically interesting properties, such as integrated antenna functionality, transparency to radiofrequency (RF) waves or shielding from electromagnetic interference. His Fellowship focuses on developing novel high-temperature antennas for hypersonic flight, in partnership with Hypersonix Launch Systems and DMTC Limited.

Mitch has interest in a wide range of material research activities, including:

• multifunctional composite materials,
• non-destructive evaluation,
• novel material systems,
• high-temperature and hypersonic applications,
• novel RF/antenna applications for Defence and space.

He received his PhD from UQ in 2018 for his work on the detection of laminar damage in composite laminates using nonlinear ultrasonic techniques. Recently, he has worked extensively on industry technology development and innovation projects focused around multifunctional composite materials and conformal, load-bearing antenna structures.

Daniel is an Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, and the Director of the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on how migratory species use and connect the ocean; how we can use spatial management measures to help conserve them and marine biodiversity more broadly; and how we need to work together on regional and global scales to conserve marine spaces. He has worked with seven UN Conventions and organisations to try to provide the information and tools necessary to support a healthy ocean.

His research focuses on applying ecological and biogeographical theory to develop applied solutions to natural resource management and conservation problems in the ocean across a range of scales. I am particularly interested in developing and disseminating actionable information to inform conservation planning in areas beyond national jurisdiction and improving environmental governance of that “other” half of our planet. His current focus is on delivering an open-access, online system to describe how migratory species use and connect the ocean (mico.eco), and new tools to increase stakeholder engagement in systematic conservation planning.

Dr Katrina Dunn is the Director of Allied Health at Redcliffe Hospital, Metro North Health. She holds an Honorary Research Fellow appointment with The University of Queensland's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and an Adjunct Lecturer position with the University of Southern Queensland's School of Health and Medical Sciences. Katrina’s doctoral studies investigated dysphagia following non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage. Katrina’s research interests are diverse across neurogenic swallowing and communication impairments, as well as optimising health service delivery.

Tim Dunne is Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey, a role that he took up in early 2022. As Provost he has responsibility for the institution’s academic performance across 13 Schools, 3 Faculties and 3 Pan-University Institutes. Prior to his move to Surrey, Tim had a number of leadership roles at The University of Queensland, including Deputy Provost as well as the Founding Executive Dean of HASS. Tim is recognised for his research on human rights protection and foreign policy-making in a changing world order. He has written and co-edited sixteen books, including Terror in our Time (2012), The Globalization of International Society (2017), and most recently the The Rise of the International (2024) co-edited with Professor Richard Devetak. He is an elected Fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences in Australia and the Academic of Social Sciences in the UK. He proudly holds an Emeritus Professorship in the School of POLSIS at The University of Queensland.