Affiliate of Centre for Innovation in Pain and Health Research (CIPHeR)
Centre for Innovation in Pain and Health Research
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Associate Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Media expert
Craig Engstrom has completed BHMS (Ed) (Hon) undergraduate and honours degrees at The University of Queensland, a MSc degree at Queen's University, Canada and a PhD at The University of Queensland. He is Program Coordinator of the Postgraduate Masters of Sports Medicine.
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Associate Professor Holly Erskine leads the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Epidemiology and Services (CAPES) research stream at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland and is an affiliate Assistant Professor with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
Holly completed her PhD in 2016, examining the global epidemiology of ADHD and conduct disorder as well as the long-term outcomes associated with these disorders, and was awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Higher Degree Theses. For several years, she was responsible for the epidemiological modelling and burden estimation of child and adolescent mental disorders in the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) and co-led a programme of work which directly led to the inclusion of bullying victimisation as a risk factor for major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders in GBD. She was awarded an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship in 2018 and was recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2022.
Currently, Holly is the Principal Investigator of the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys (NAMHS), which involves nationally-representative surveys of the prevalence of adolescent mental disorders in Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam. She is also a chief investigator on the Australian Child Maltreatment Study and the Centre for Research Excellence in Adolescent Health Metrics.
Professor Joan Esterle is the Chair of the Vale-UQ Coal Geoscience Program. Her research interests are varied but focussed on how geological history impacts on coal measures behaviour during mining, processing and utilisation. She also develops 3D models for the distribution of sedimentary strata that can be used to predict geohazards in coal mines or reservoir behaviour in conventional and non conventional gas resources, and for geosequestration. In addition to working with Vale and other industry partners, she conducts multi-client studies through the Australian Coal Research Program (ACARP), The Australian National Low Emissions Coal Research (ANLECRD), and the UQ Centre for Coal Seam Gas (CCSG).
She received her PhD from The University of Kentucky, USA, in 1990. She worked for 17 years with CSIRO, followed by GeoGAS-Runge Group before joining the UQ full time in 2010. Current projects include:
CCSG Surat Geological Framework and Faults and Fractures
ACARP Rangal Supermodel-Bowen Basin and Cenozoic Fault Reactivation
ANLEC Outcrop Analogue Modelling for CO2 Sequestration
Affiliate of Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Carlos is an Anthropologist who specialises in inclusive and culturally responsive community engagement and community development practices. His work has a broad focus on stakeholder relations, capacity building, and program management for communities with historic disadvantages on decision-making processes, including CALD communities and people living with disabilities. Carlos's professional trajectory includes applied ethnographic research and project and engagement development across diverse sectors, including tertiary education, NGOs, and Local and State government agencies in Australia and Colombia.
Senior Lecturer in Horticulture and Crop Entomology
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Faculty of Science
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I am an entomologist with a research interest focused on studying host-pathogen interactions and discovering insect-specific viruses. I have investigated gene expression and the role of small non-coding RNAs in various host-pathogen models, particularly in crucial agricultural pests and medically significant vectors like the Aedes aegypti, responsible for transmitting dengue and Zika viruses. My previous project, aimed at exploring the function of Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus in the biological control of the coconut rhinoceros beetle in the Pacific Islands, has substantially enhanced our comprehension of this invasive pest within the framework of an offshore biosecurity strategy. By establishing industry partnerships and securing funding to improve the Australian sugar industry, one of Australia's largest agricultural sectors, I have been able to focus on entomopathogenic viruses that affect root-feeding pests in sugarcane.
Dr Nicolas Eugster is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at UQ Business School. Prior to joining UQ, Nicolas was an Assistant Professor in Finance from 2018 to 2020 at IESEG School of Management (Lille, France) and a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Chair of Finance and Governance at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, Nicolas was granted a research fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Doc.Mobility) to visit the Department of Finance of the Robert H. Smith School of Business (University of Maryland, USA).
Nicolas holds a Bachelor of Arts in Management (BA), a Master of Arts in Accounting and Finance (MA), and a PhD in Management (Finance) from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His PhD dissertation was awarded the 2018 Vigener Price for the best PhD thesis of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). In addition, he has enhanced his pedagogical skills by having completed a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) in Higher Education and Educational Technology.
Nicolas’ research interests focus on corporate finance, ownership structure, and family firms. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Banking and Finance (A*) and the Journal of Corporate Finance (A*).
Bonnie Evans is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Queensland. Her research has addressed the intersections between feminist politics and screen media, particularly film and television, and she has published on true crime documentary. Her most recent journal article examines Corale Fargeat's 2017 film Revenge. Her PhD thesis explores aesthetic and thematic links between contemporary feminisms, including the Me Too Movement, and recent horror and true crime film and television. She received a UQ Dean's Award for Oustanding HDR Theses in 2022. She teaches across film and television studies, media studies and digital media.
She is interested in supervising HDR research on the following broad topics:
Gender in film, television and media studies
Feminist media studies
Genre film, television and media, particularly horror
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Professorial Research Fellow and Director, Centre for Population and Disease Genomics
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Affiliate of The Centre for Population and Disease Genomics
Centre for Population and Disease Genomics
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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David Evans is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Queensland Institute for Molecular Bioscience. He is a winner of the NHMRC Marshall and Warren Award.
He completed his PhD in Statistical Genetics at the University of Queensland in 2003, before undertaking a four-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford where he worked as part of the The International HapMap Consortium and co-led the analysis of four diseases within the first Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. In 2007 he moved to take up a Senior Lecturer position at the University of Bristol where he led much of the genome-wide association studies work in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). In 2013 he returned to take up a chair at the University of Queensland whilst continuing to lead an MRC Programme in statistical genetics at the University of Bristol.
His research interests include the genetic mapping of complex traits and diseases (including birthweight and other perinatal traits, osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis, sepsis, laterality) and the development of statistical methodologies in genetic epidemiology including approaches for gene mapping, individual risk prediction, causal modelling and dissecting the genetic architecture of complex traits. He has a particular interest in Mendelian randomization and has used it and other causal methods to investigate the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)- the idea that adverse intrauterine exposures lead to increased risk of disease in later life.
He is Academic Codirector at the NIH funded International Workshop on Statistical Genetics Methods and is faculty on the European Programme in Educational Epidemiology.
He is Associate Editor at the International Journal of Epidemiology and Behavior Genetics journals.
Affiliate of W.H. Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre
W.H. Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Senior Research Fellow
W.H. Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Tom Evans is a geologist with over 20 years experience working in the minerals exploration sector, working on copper projects throughout Australia and in Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, and on gold projects in Türkiye and Australia. His research interests span a diverse range of topics from mineral systems analysis, exploration methodology, geometallurgical characterisation, and the interactions between mineral economics and legislation protecting the social and environmental impacts of mining. He has authored numerous chapters of the North East Queensland Mineral Deposit Atlas and has deep knowledge of the exploration and project development space in Queensland.
