Affiliate Professor of School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Faculty of Science
Affiliate of Centre for Superbug Solutions
Centre for Superbug Solutions
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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Available for supervision
Professor Denise Doolan is Director of Research at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. She joined IMB in 2022 and was previously Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, and Director of the JCU Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, at James Cook University.
She is a molecular immunologist, working on the development of vaccines, diagnostics and host-directed therapeutics for infectious and chronic diseases that impact global public health, with a particular focus on malaria. Her cross-disciplinary research program spans host-pathogen immunity, antigen discovery, vaccine engineering, and biomarker discovery. A particular interest is the application of state-of-the-art genome-based technologies and human models of disease system to identify novel targets for intervention against disease or that predict risk of disease.
She is a recognized world expert in malaria immunology, vaccinology, and omic-based approaches for therapeutic and diagnostic development. She has been honoured as a Fellow of the International Society for Vaccines (2017) and a Fellow of the Australian Society of Parasitology (2019) in recognition of her leadership and contribution to health and medical science in Australia and internationally.
Professor Doolan serves on a number of Executive Boards and Advisory Boards. Most recently, she has been elected as President of the International Society for Vaccines (2021-2023), and has been appointed to the Federal Government’s Australian Medical Research Advisory Board (AMRAB; 2021-2026) to provide specialist insights into Australia’s medical research and innovation priorities.
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Higher Degree by Research Scholar
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
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Not available for supervision
Chrystal's research focuses on collecting and analysing functional and structural brain imaging data, including MRI, to understand the neural mechanisms underlying complex PTSD, a recently recognised condition distinct from typical PTSD.
Chrystal has worked clinically and in research as a dual qualified nuclear medicine technologist and MRI radiographer. Her current role as Clinical Head of Teaching and Learning allows her to develop new courses and teach into the program. Her recent focus has been in the scope of scholarship of teaching whereby she is passionate and focused on PTSD and C-PTSD response to fMRI data.
Editorial Boards: People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice (PAIJ); Animals
Reviewer: International Journal of Audiology; European Journal of Neurology; International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology; Journal of the American Academy of Audiology; BMC Health Services Research Journal; Journal of Hearing Science; Audiology Research; Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research; Ear & Hearing; Pediatrics - The Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Journal of Educational, Pediatric, and (Re)habilitational Audiology; American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology.
Professional Memberships: Audiological Australia; Animals & Society Institute; UQ Partnership in Animal Wellbeing (UQ PAW); Human-Animal Interaction Section 13 Division 17 of the American Psychological Association.
Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Available for supervision
Media expert
Biography:
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)
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.
Affiliate Senior Research Fellow of Queensland Brain Institute
Queensland Brain Institute
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Mater Research Institute-UQ
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Not available for supervision
S. Dufau is a Senior Research Fellow at Mater Research in Brisbane, Australia, where he conducts clinical research, with academic affiliations at The University of Queensland and the Queensland Brain Institute. He works at the intersection of epilepsy and cognitive science within the Mater Epilepsy Unit Research Group. With training in biophysics and biostatistics, his research focuses on understanding relationships between brain function and behaviour through the analysis and modelling of biological and behavioural data. A central aim of this work is to contribute to better patient care.
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Biomedical Sciences
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Available for supervision
Dr Vikas Duhan is an emerging leader in immunology, with a research focus on the mechanisms that regulate T cell and natural killer (NK) cell responses in cancer and chronic infections. His work aims to advance next-generation immunotherapies by investigating how immune cell function is regulated and can be therapeutically harnessed. His current research explores post-transcriptional regulation and adaptor protein signalling pathways that govern T cell and NK cell function. Building on fundamental immunology, he aims to develop improved adoptive cell therapies, including CAR-T cells, to enhance anti-tumour efficacy and patient outcomes.
Dr Duhan completed his PhD in Viral Immunology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, followed by a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) International Fellowship at QIMR Berghofer with Prof. Rajiv Khanna, where he developed expertise in human T cell engineering and translational cancer immunotherapy.
His work has been published in leading journals, including Nature Communications, Cancer Immunology Research, PNAS, Cell Death & Differentiation, and PLOS Pathogens. He has also contributed to the development of a commercially licensed anti-CEACAM1 therapeutic antibody.
