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Carmel Hawley MBBS, FRACP, M.Med.Sci, is a Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Haemodialysis Services at Princess Alexandra Hospital. In addition, she is an Associate Professor (A/P) of Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Queensland and current (inaugural) Chair for the Australasian Kidney Trials network (AKTN) formed in 2005. Under A/P Hawley’s stewardship, AKTN’s research output is now recognised internationally for its quality and impact. This has driven major advances in the evidence base, that directly informs care and outcomes for people living with chronic kidney disease. A/P Hawley also holds a Master’s degree in Biostatistics, has expertise in trial management, methodology, design and conduct. She is currently involved in numerous industry-led and/or investigator initiated international and national clinical trials as either a Principal or Associate Investigator, providing leadership and direction to emerging early and mid-career researchers.

Glenda is a lecturer in the Bachelor of Midwifery and Dual Degree (Nursing and Midwifery) in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at UQ. Glenda is a Registered Nurse & Midwife with academic experience in a Program Lead role, incorporating curriculum development with external engagement, program planning and management, with an interprofessional approach. Currently manages the simulation workspace, which is a valuable role as a member of the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Accreditation Council Assessment team. Glenda has an extensive midwifery and public health background, having worked internationally and in rural and remote settings in Australia. Glenda's research interests are: electronic health records with interoperability; interprofessional collaboration and technological approaches to simulation; improving student and new graduate experience and perinatal mental health. Available for HDR supervision.

Dr Zachary Hawula is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Lymphoma Research Lab at the Frazer Institute located within the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane. Having completed his Doctor of Philosophy at the Queensland University of Technology in 2021 investigating genetic and chemical modulators of iron metabolism, haemochromatosis and anaemia. After Completing his PhD, Zach research interests changed to developing novel cell lines using CRISPR/Cas9 prime editing which mimic the rare inherited condition Wilson's Disease. A copper overolad disorder causes copper levels to build up in several organs, especially the liver, brain and eyes. Since begining his role in the Lymphoma Research Lab in 2022, Zachary is now focused on using cutting edge technologies such as single cell RNAseq (scRNAseq) to understand rare B cell lymphomas primarily focusing on Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL) and Secondary CNS Lymphoma.

I work at the interface of sensory science and analytical chemistry to understand how food production, processing and environmental conditions influence food quality, provenance, authenticity and consumer perception. My research supports agrifood industries, including meat, seafood and broader food production sectors, by linking measurable chemical changes with sensory attributes such as flavour, aroma, texture and appearance.

I am interested in partnering with producers, processors, industry bodies and technology providers to evaluate how different growing, treatment, feeding, farming, harvesting or processing methods affect product quality and consumer perceptibility. This includes industry trials focused on climate-smart crops, sustainable production systems, improved animal and seafood production methods, provenance claims and product differentiation. My goal is to help translate scientific measurement into practical insights that support innovation, product integrity and consumer confidence.

Dr Helen Haydon is a Senior Research Fellow and Registered Psychologist at the University of Queensland. She has national standing, and an emerging international reputation, as a digital health researcher with a focus on aged and palliative care, psycho-oncology and carer wellbeing. She has led 3 applied nationwide digital health research programs: 1/ Palliative Care ECHO that connects services and upskills health professionals across Australia in palliative care; 2/ Elder ECHO, a telementoring program to support the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation’s (NACCHO) Elder Care Support workforce in the delivery of Culturally safe aged care and; 3/ Caring for the Carer, an online intervention for carers of people with brain tumour. http://caringforthecarer.org.au/

Other research includes: evaluation of telepalliative care services (e.g. patient/ carer outcomes and perceptions and staff perceptions); voluntary assisted dying; technology supported grief and bereavement support and; digital mental health.

She is a Registered Psychologist with clinical experience working with a range of issues and diverse populations and has over ten years’ experience teaching and facilitating workshops on psychology and health communication.

Dr Rylan Hayes is a highly trained ophthalmologist (eye doctor) with a special interest in cutting edge eye surgery techniques designed to improve vision. He specialises in cataract surgery – straightforward or complex – as well as pterygium surgery, conditions and surgery of the cornea, and glaucoma management and surgery. He completed medical school at The University of Queensland and rigorous ophthalmology training right here in Queensland, and also achieved an international graduate diploma in refractive, cornea, and lens surgery to stay at the forefront of eye surgery. He has numerous academic publications and presentations and also holds a prestigious appointment as a specialist ophthalmologist at the Mater Public Hospital in Brisbane.

Biography:

Prof Hayes is Emeritus Professor of Metallurgical Engineering within the School of Chemical Engineering. He is curently a senior researcher in the Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre (PYROSEARCH). He received his PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1974. He has a BSc (1970) and MSc (1972) in Metallurgy from the University of Newcastle on Tyne, England.

Research:

Prof Hayes was founding Director of the Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre (PYROSEARCH). Prof Hayes' research is focused on the high temperature processing of minerals and materials, with particular application to the pyrometallurgical production and refining of metals. His interests include chemical equilibria, reaction kinetics and mechanisms.

His current research projects encompass:

• High temperature phase equilibrium measurements and determination of liquidus isotherms in complex industrial slag systems relevant to the smelting of copper, ferro-chromium, ferro-manganese, iron, ferro-nickel, lead and zinc production and metal recycling.
• The development of thermodynamic databases, and their use in conjunction with FactSage, to predict phase equilibria and thermodynamic properties in oxide systems.
• Reaction kinetics and mechanisms in metal and materials processing, smelting and refining; in particular, gas/solid reactions.

Prof Hayes has over 450 research publications.

Teaching and Learning:

Prof Hayes’ teaching interests include pyrometallurgy, chemical thermodynamics, and physical and chemical processing of minerals.

He is author of the undergraduate textbook “Process Selection in Minerals and Materials Production” by P.C. Hayes, Hayes Publishing Co, Sherwood, Brisbane, the 4th ed. is currently available and downloadable from the web as a e-book. Prof Hayes introduced the dual major BE Chemical and Metallurgical to the UQ curriculum and has been activity involved in program and curriculum development in the field of metallurgical engineering over a several decades.

Projects:

1. Reaction mechanisms and kinetics of high temperature gas/solid/liquid reaction kinetics relevant to metals production.
2. Fundamental experimental studies of phase equilibria in metal smelting, refining and metals recycling processes.

Professor Hayes has extensive research experience in genetic improvement of livestock, crop, pasture and aquaculture species, with a focus on integration of genomic information into breeding programs, including leading many large scale projects which have successfully implemented genomic technologies in livestock and cropping industries. Author of more than 300 journal papers, including in Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Genetics, and Science, contributing to statistical methodology for genomic, microbiome and metagenomic profile predictions, quantitative genetics including knowledge of genetic mechanisms underlying complex traits, and development of bioinformatics pipelines for sequence analysis. Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Software Engineering. Ian's research interests are in formal methods for software development.

Errors in a compiler for a programming language can generate errors in the myriad of programs they compile. Our research is looking at verifying optimisation phases of a compiler.

Concurrent programs are difficult to reason about due to the interleaving of execution of concurrent threads leading to an explosion of possible execution sequences. Our research is developing techniques for rely/guarantee reasoning about concurrent programs.

Both the above research strands make use of the Isabelle/HOL theorem prover.

Erin Hayes is a post-doctoral researcher in OzGrav at the School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland in Brisbane. She works to improve our understanding of the (dark) contents and fate of the universe using transient phenomena, including type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and gravitationally lensed supernovae. In light of recent tensions in cosmology which, if physical, indicate that our current best model of the universe is incomplete, Hayes pursues this goal via a two-pronged approach. Firstly, she examines systematic uncertainties in the standardisation of SNe Ia as used in the distance ladder methodology, which is giving the current most precise local cosmological measurements. To validate measurements from the distance ladder, she secondly measures cosmology in the local universe independently of the distance ladder via time-delay cosmography with lensed supernovae. Broadly, she is an expert in the statistical analysis of transients for cosmology, including modelling of time-series data and population studies. The modelling tools she developed have been used for impactful cosmological results.

She completed her PhD in Astronomy as a Gates-Cambridge Scholar at the Institute of Astronomy and Kavli Center for Cosmology, University of Cambridge in 2026.

Professor Haynes works in the areas of soil and environmental science. His present research interests are on rehabilitation and revegetation of mine tailings, the use of constructed wetlands to treat drainage from tailings storage areas and the role of silicon in crop production. He has extensive experience having worked as both an applied research scientist and as a university professor and has worked in New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. He has published over 190 original research papers in international journals, over 25 review papers in international volumes as well as many conference and extension papers and contract reports. He has been an invited keynote speaker at many international conferences and has served on the editorial board of 4 international research journals. He has acted as principal supervisor and co-supervisor of PhD, MSc and honours students in both South Africa and Australia.

Professor Haynes has carried out research in commercial horticultural, pastoral, arable and forestry production as well as in small-holder semi subsistence agriculture. He has also worked on bioremediation of soils contaminated with organic pollutants, rehabilitation of mined sites, application of organic and inorganic wastes to soils and the effects of heavy metal contaminants on soil processes. His research has been mainly in the areas of applied soil chemistry and soil microbiology/biology with links to soil physical properties and to pollution of air and water. He has specialised in working on applied problems and maintains strong links with industry. Major areas of research have included the role of grazing animals in the fertility of pastoral soils, N cycling and gaseous and leaching losses from arable and pastoral systems, soil quality and soil degradation under agricultural land use, effects of soil contaminants on soil processes, rehabilitation and remediation of contaminated, degraded and mined sites and use of wastes as soil amendments.

Alice is a plant biotechnologist and physiologist leading a strong outcome-driven team at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation. Her team focuses on plant tissue culture as a platform technology delivering solutions for agriculture and ecosystems. This includes developing commercial-scale methods for year-round propagation of clean, true-to-type plants for horticultural industries, with impacts for growers, supply chains and breeding programs. This technology is also being adapated to accelerate horticultural crop improvement using gene editing and non-GM in vitro breeding tools for trees, fruits and vegetables. Her team boasts leading experts in cryopreservation for long-term conservation of plant genetic diversity - essenital to secure the breeding materials critical for Australia's tropical crops and endangered biodiversity. Example projects with impact include: 1) Commercial-scale tissue culture pipelines for propagation of species including avocado, turmeric and macadamia, 2) Cryopreservation success for securing the germplasm of avocado and macadamia, and 3) The first in vitro conservation tools developed for Australian native plants critically impacted by pandemic myrtle rust - one of the biggest biosecurity threats to Australia's ecosystems. Alice is also exploring exciting innovations in plant tissue culture including cellular horticulture. She is passionate to support industry access to highest quality disease free planting materials and preserve the plant species that are core to our ecosystems and food production systems. Her vision is to support the adaptibility and security of our food- and eco- systems in response to global change.

2016 - 2020, Ph.D., Data Science, University of Queensland (UQ), Supervised by Prof. Xiaofang Zhou and Prof. Sibo Wang