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Dr Roberto H. Esposto is a Senior Lecturer in the Spanish and Latin American Studies program in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland.

Roberto’s research output focuses on Argentinean and Latin American literature. His work also centres on Latin American thought, with a particular attention to decolonial thinking. His research publications deal with questions of Argentinean and Latin American cultural identity and intellectual history and problematizes the ways in which Latin American intellectuals grapple, from a situated perspective, with a colonial legacy that underpins Western modernity today.

Due to Roberto’s significant contribution to the study of 20th century Argentinean literature, in 2015 he was nominated Corresponding Fellow of the Argentinean Academy of Letters. Roberto is the first Australian Hispanist to be awarded such an honour by an academy of the Spanish language, of which there are twenty-four around the world.

He is an internationally recognized expert on the Argentine novelist and diplomat Abel Posse (1934-2023). Roberto has also published on the -Argentine philosopher Günther Rodolfo Kusch (1922-1979). Kusch is a philosophical anthropologist who made a significant contribution to the articulation of Argentinean and Latin American philosophy, harnessed from indigenous and popular thinking, which has influenced a broad set of disciplines, including metaphysics and theology, art and literary studies, and decolonial thought.

More recently Roberto has contributed to make better known the poetry of the Argentinean Hugo Caamaño (1923-2015), by leading an edited publication in collaboration with numbered members of the academy and published by the Argentinean Academy of Letters, titled Hugo Caamaño, poeta de mundo propio.

Roberto engages regularly with Latin America, by participating in conferences in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Since 2003, Roberto has made a significant contribution to fostering the learning and use of Spanish in the international community, by writing the popular, high impact, bestselling Lonely Planet Latin American Spanish Phrasebook and Dictionary, which has seen many editions, including the 10th which appeared in September 2023. This publication has also been translated into French and Italian.

Research interests

• 20th Century Argentinean literature and the historical novel; Latin American literature; Latin American intellectual tradition and decolonial thought

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

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*).

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.

Pete is currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy specialising in the philosophy of science, particularly the philosophy of physics. His research interests include time and causation in modern physics, especially quantum foundations, and the epistemology and methodology of science, especially analogue experimentation. He is currently Lead CI on an ARC Discovery Project, "The View From Somewhere: embodied agents and the quantum perspective", exploring the role that agency plays both in the physics of embodied learning as well as quantum theory. In 2023 he was a collaborator in the FQxI project "Information as fuel" based in the School of Mathematics and Physics. He completed in 2021 an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award project, "A philosophical exploration of simulating and controlling the quantum world", which examines how a novel laboratory technique, analogue quantum simulation, illuminates the epistemology of analogue experimentation. Pete's philosophical research is informed by the latest experimental and theoretical results from the physical sciences.

Pete teaches courses in the philosophy of science, including PHIL2090 Why Trust Science? and PHIL2025 What Scientific Theories Really Say, and often teaches the philosophy of science component in SCIE1000 Theory and Practice in Science. He has also recently taught PHIL1002 Introduction to Philosophy and PHIL2110 Formal Logic.

Dr Ieuan Evans is a Staff Specialist in Thoracic Medicine at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, and a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland. He has significant clinical experience including sub-specialty interests in cystic fibrosis (CF), bronchiectasis, non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) and complex pulmonary infections. He completed his fellowship at the Centre for Complex Lung Infections (CCLI), Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, encompassing his PhD in Medicine from the University of Cambridge titled 'Developing novel therapies for M. abscessus'. Research from his PhD led to the development of RESP-301 (a nitric oxide generating solution) utilised in several clinical trials.

Ieuan is a principal investigator on a number of industry-led clinical trials in CF, bronchiectasis and NTM infection. He is a principal investigator on the BRIDGE Study an international program of bronchiectasis research involving databases, genomics and endotyping. He is an associate investigator on the FORMaT study assessing clinical outcomes in pulmonary M. abscessus infection. His current research focuses on clinical and microbiological outcomes in CF, bronchiectasis and NTM-pulmonary disease leading numerous investigator-led studies across proteomics, the CF microbiome and the pharmacokinetics of CFTR modulator therapies.

Ieuan is on the Australian Therapeutic Guidelines writing group for respiratory disease - leading on CF, bronchiectasis, and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). He is an elected member of the Australian Bronchiectasis Consortium. He is the current co-chair of the TSANZ NTM Clinical Practice Guideline.

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 rape-revenge film in the context of the Me Too movement, specifically Corale Fargeat's 2017 film Revenge, and her forthcoming monograph The New Feminist Horror will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2027. Her book will explore aesthetic and thematic links between contemporary feminisms, including the Me Too Movement and recent horror cinema, and the PhD thesis that forms the basis of the book received a UQ Dean's Award for Oustanding HDR Theses in 2022. Bonnie teaches across film and television studies, media studies and digital media and in 2025, she won the HASS Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for her innovations in teaching.

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
• Embodied approaches to media studies (phenomenology, affect, feeling and emotion)
• Documentary studies, true crime and reality television
• Gender and sexual violence in film and television
• Feminist movements in media (#MeToo, the fourth wave, second wave etc).

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.

Dr Ewing leads the Translational Bioinformatics Group at the Mater Research Institute - UQ, located at the Translational Research Institute (TRI). His research interests follow a common theme of developing and applying computational methods to investigate genomic mutation in evolutionary and disease-related processes. Dr Ewing is a key collaborator on an array of projects spanning from basic research into clinical applications of Bioinformatics. In particular, his interests include the genomics and epigenomics of epithelial tumours including those arising in prostate, pancreatic, and breast cancer.

Prof Darryl Eyles is the head of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research Developmental Neurobiology laboratory. One of Darryl’s research directions is focused on how known risk-factors for schizophrenia change the way the brain develops. His group have established the biological plausibility of various epidemiological risk factors for this disease including developmental vitamin D deficiency, prenatal hypoxia and maternal immune activation. Strikingly all these exposures affect the early development and later differentiation of early dopamine neurons. A second major focus is on understanding the effects of increased dopamine release in selective circuits and how this may be causal in schizophrenia. A third major interest is in factors such as the gut microbiome, and how increased testosterone contribute to altered brain function related to autism.

Dr Luli Faber is a teaching-focused academic in the School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Queensland whose research examines how motivation, emotions and emotion regulation influence student learning, engagement and well-being in higher education. Her work in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) focuses on identifying strategies that help undergraduate students remain motivated, manage stress, and achieve stronger academic outcomes.

Her research investigates how psychological processes during learning can be harnessed to improve student experiences and performance. In particular, she studies motivation regulation, emotion regulation, student engagement and learning strategies, with the aim of informing evidence-based teaching practices that support both academic success and student well-being. This work also guides the design of innovative learning activities that foster key graduate capabilities, including cultural capability, critical thinking and science communication.

Dr Faber’s research is conducted within the SBMS Biomedical Education Research Group and has contributed to a growing body of work examining the factors that shape student motivation and learning in biomedical science education. Her projects integrate quantitative and qualitative approaches to better understand how students navigate challenges during university study and how educators can support their learning.

Prior to moving into education research, Dr Faber conducted neuroscience research investigating synaptic transmission and plasticity in brain regions involved in emotional processing, including the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. Her work focused on the role of potassium channels, including SK channels, in regulating neuronal activity.

Honours projects are available within the SBMS Biomedical Education Research Group, including projects examining:

• motivation regulation strategies that improve undergraduate learning and academic outcomes
• emotion regulation strategies used by university students
• factors supporting resilience and personal growth in undergraduate students
• student experiences of learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' perspectives in Biomedical Science education.