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Dr Foluke Abigail Badejo is a Lecturer in Marketing at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. She holds a PhD, a Master of Marketing Management, and a Bachelor of Communication in Marketing and Journalism from Griffith University. She also holds a Master of Public Relations from The University of Southern Queensland, and a Graduate Certificate of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing from The University of Queensland.

Dr Badejo has multidisciplinary research expertise with a focus on vulnerable consumers and harm reduction, measurable social impact, and sustainable development in the domains of:

• Social Marketing
• Transformative Services Research
• Branding and Promotion
• Social Enterprise
• Public Health
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

She specialises in qualitative and multi-method research approaches including co-design, discourse analysis, ethnography, focus groups, depth and phenomenological interviews, systematic literature reviews, to name a few. Her research has been published in leading academic journals including Marketing Theory, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Social Marketing, International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, European Sports Management Quarterly, BMC Public Health, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Health Psychology Review, Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Ageing.

She has been a principal or named investigator on research projects attracting over half a million dollars in grant funding including from OurWatch, Suncorp, Energy Consumers Australia, North Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), Queensland Health, Diabetes Queensland, and UNICEF Malawi. Dr Badejo has been an invited keynote speaker and guest panelist at national and international conferences, including the 2019 World Social Marketing Conference, Change Conference 2019, Servsig 2020, International Conference of Markets and Development (ICMD, 2021), and Consumer Culture Insights Group Roundtable, 2022.

As a lecturer, Dr Badejo is passionate about providing students with an engaging and transformative learning experience. As such, she strives to equip her students with robust theoretical knowledge, practical skills, leadership attributes and the growth mindset and capabilities they need to make their mark on the world. To this end, she prioritises innovation, creativity, and a student-centred, technology-augmented, active learning approach in her classrooms. Dr Badejo has taught widely across the disciplines of Marketing and Public Relations and leverages this breadth of experience, alongside cross-cultural competence and epistemic inclusion, to enrich her teaching practice and facilitate student success.

Prior to her academic career, Dr Badejo enjoyed a successful career as an award-winning industry practitioner with over a decade of marketing management and communications experience across the Higher Education, International Development, State Government, Nonprofits, and Banking sectors.

Dr Bademosi received his BSc(Hons) in Medical Physiology from the University of Lagos (Nigeria) in 2010, and his MSc and PhD in Neuroscience from the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland in 2014 and 2018 respectively. He pioneered super-resolution single-molecule microscopy in vivo during his PhD, where he examined nanoscale changes in synaptic proteins during neurotransmission and under general anaesthesia. In 2018, obtained the highly competitive European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) postdoctoral fellowship.to carry out his postdoctoral training in the lab of Professor Patrik Verstreken who is the current Director of of the Centre for Brain and Disease Research, Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, KU Leuven, Belgium. Here, he characterised how disease coding variants in risk genes for Parkinson's Disease elicit onset of neuronal degeneration (published in Neuron). Dr Bademosi was awarded the inaugural Race Against Dementia - Dementia Australia Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in 2020, to carry examine advanced nanoscale investigation into changes in the organisation and dynamics of the Motor Neuron Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia linked protein TDP-43. His research has been supported by grants from the Brain Foundation Australia, Dementia Australia Research Foundation, Motor Neuron Disease Research Institute of Australia, and the Australian Research Council.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Logic in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at The University of Queensland, Australia. I serve on the editorial boards of Archive for Mathematical Logic and Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing. I am also a member of the Executive of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, and from 2026, I will be Chair of the Committee on Logic in Australasia of the Association for Symbolic Logic. Jointly with John Crossley and John Stillwell, I have written a book entitled What is Mathematical Logic? (2ed.) published by Oxford University Press in 2025.

Dr Nilufar (Nell) Baghaei is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland, and Co-Director of the Mixed Reality Lab. She leads a high-impact, interdisciplinary research group focused on designing immersive technologies and games, and studying their effectiveness in improving health and education outcomes.

Dr Baghaei has built a strong national and international reputation through prolific publications in top-tier venues, editorial and leadership roles in major journals and conferences, securing more than $3M in successful external grants (as lead CI or technical lead CI), and successful supervision of research students (Google Scholar h-index: 28; citations: 2,800+). She is currently supervising 12 HDR students (7 as principal supervisor) and serves on several UQ committees. She was awarded the 2025 Faculty Research Excellence Award in the supervision category.

Dr Baghaei is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Virtual Reality, and Games for Health Journal, and serves as the Organising Committee Member/Associate Chair for IEEE ISMAR and ACM CHI (A*-ranked conferences in immersive tech and HCI). She also acted as a Program Chair for the International Conference on Persuasive Technology in 2024. Her research has been cited in policy and patent documents, and featured in media outlets including Psychology Today, MedicalXpress, and 7NEWS Australia. Prior to joining UQ, she led the Games and Extended Reality Lab at Massey University, New Zealand.

Dr Lisa Bai is a Research Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering and the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology (ACWEB) at the University of Queensland. She is chief investigator for multiple projects advancing sustainable waste and wastewater management, with a focus on resource recovery to produce bioenergy and value-added bioproducts such as biodegradable plastics (PHA).

Dr Bai holds a background in bioengineering and environmental engineering. Prior to joining UQ, she worked for four years in environmental consultancy in North Queensland, developing macroalgae-based bioremediation systems and valorising waste streams into biomass for aquaculture feed, fertilisers, and bioactive products.

Dr. Tao Bai is a senior lecturer in International Business. His research interests include multinational firm strategy, non-market strategy including political activity and social activity, and the intersection between, with the focus on emerging market multinationals as a field of research and practice. He has published articles at Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, and Journal of Business Research, and in top Chinese academic and practical journals.

Feifei Bai is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is also an adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University. She was awarded the Advance Queensland Fellow in 2018. Her research contributions can be recognised by a strong publication record, secured over $4.6 million research projects, patent commercialisation, and research outcome implementation by the industry. She serves as a guest associate editor for the special issue “Flexible and Resilient Urban Energy Systems” of the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems in 2021. She is an associate editor for the journal of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution and an assistant editor for the International Journal of Green Energy. She also actively collaborates with Australian industries including Energy Queensland, NOJA Power, Powerlink, AEMO, and EPEC Group. One ARENA project in which she was a key researcher received an Australian Engineering Excellence Award in 2020.

Professor Paul Bailes's research interests are in: Software Engineering, Programming Langauge Design and Implementation, and Decision Support Systems.

He received his PhD from The University of Queensland in 1984. His current research projects are in the fields of:

• Forensic Analysis of Failed Software Projects
• Higher-Order Functional Programming
• Automated Academic Advising.

Professor Roxanne Bainbridge is a Gunggari/Kunja woman from South-Western Queensland. She previously worked as a Professorial Research Fellow in Indigenous Health at Central Queensland University Australia; Adjunct to The Cairns Institute at James Cook University; and an inaugural Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity at the University of Melbourne / the University of Oxford. With a background in anthropology, Roxanne focusses her interests on medical anthropology as a culturally constructive critique of the biomedical sciences and policy-makers that provides new understandings of human health, wellness and illness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Roxanne is an engaged researcher/evaluator with extensive experience leading, collaborating and coordinating projects with international, national and local teams. Her methodological expertise is in high impact applied research conducted in participatory and action-oriented research approaches embedded in improvement and systems sciences. Specific proficiencies are in research impact assessment and evaluation; improvement sciences; systems sciences; mixed methods; phronetic grounded theory; systematic literature reviews; and auto/ethnographic approaches. Roxanne applies her methodological expertise and concepts of Indigenous data sovereignty and governance to projects in Indigenous health, e.g. mental health and suicide, adolescent psychosocial wellbeing, social and emotional wellbeing across the life course, health services research, child and maternal health, palliative care, binge drinking and health promotion; and, in education, e.g. engagement, pedagogy, school transitions, inclusive practice and mentoring).

Over the last 10 years she was Lead/Chief Investigator on a total of 52 grants attracting $37.230m. Of 119 publications, 74 are peer-reviewed articles in national/international peer-reviewed journals; 18 are systematic reviews; 18 are reports for government and community-controlled organisations; 12 chapters; 1 peer-reviewed conference paper; 4 peer-reviewed commissioned works; 1 book; and developed government and community health and educational resources. Systematic literature reviews (including Cochrane) in various content areas for Indigenous populations, e.g. Indigenous research impact, social and emotional wellbeing interventions and measurement tools, mentoring, alcohol and other drugs, resilience strategies, Indigenous research education, child and maternal health, cultural competence, sexual assault, family-centred interventions, health promotion tools, program transfer and Indigenous community governance. She is currently the lead investigator on a 1) 4-year national evaluation of the Commonwealth Government’s investment in Indigenous Primary Healthcare, and 2) ARC Engaging adolescents to improve mental healthcare in Indigenous primary healthcare services.

Emanuele Bajo is Professor of Finance at the University of Bologna, Associate Dean at the University of Bologna Business School (BBS) and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. In the past he has been Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, San Diego State University and Visiting Researcher at Boston College.

His research interests and major publications are mainly related to IPO, Household Finance and Corporate Risk Management. He has published numerous articles in prestigious finance journals (among others, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Banking and Finance) and two books (Convertible bonds and Corporate risk management).

He is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Economics and Business. In the past he also worked in business consulting and he is the founder of the web site Borse.it, one of the leading financial web sites in Italy.

Dr Baker’s research to date has been broadly focussed in the area cavity-optomechanics, with expertise in a range of related topics including superfluid physics, on-chip photonics, nanomechanical logic and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).

He received a PhD in Physics from the University of Paris in 2013 for work in the field of cavity optomechanics.

He is currently an ARC DECRA Fellow physicist at the University of Queensland, working in the Queensland Quantum Optics Laboratory with Professor Warwick Bowen.

You can read more about his research and access his latest publications on his personal website.

Dr Peter Baker is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

From 2021-2023, Peter was an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. For twelve years until the end of 2020, he was a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics at the School of Public Health and a senior statistical collaborator, advisor and consultant to several research projects in the Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health.

With fourty years experience as a statistical consultant and researcher, Peter has a passion for biometrics in agricultural research and biostatistics applied to public health and medical research. He also champions reproducible research and reporting and to this end has developed R and Make software to aid the workflow of data analysts in any field. As a statistical consultant and collaborator, he has contributed to many agricultural, genetic, public health and medical research projects. His contribution has ranged from advice on standard statistical approaches to the application of novel methods to improve statistical analysis or the development of new statistical methodology to fill a gap in the knowledge.

Peter's current research interests:

• efficient statistical computing using R, Make, Git and related software for the workflow of data analysis,
• reproducible research and reporting using R, Markdown, Quarto and Sweave,
• tailoring R functions and developing bespoke packages for specific statistical analyses, and
• applied statistlcal research in novel methods for epidemiological and medial research, including
  • graphical models for multivariate data in epidemiology,
  • statistical methods for modelling trajectories of alcohol consumption in youths,
  • propensity score analysis to adjust for selection bias in observational studies, and
  • Bayesian methods for epidemiological and medical MCMC studies.

Dr Baker is an Accredited Statistician (ASTAT) with the Statistical Society of Australia (see SSAI_Accreditation)

Mahsa Baktashmotlagh is currently an Associate Professor and an ARC Future Fellow at UQ, developing machine learning techniques applied in: Visual data analysis, Biomedical data (Antibacterial activity prediction), and Cyber Security.

Sruthi Balaji is a research fellow at the TC Beirne School of Law and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture, with a focus on intellectual property law and associated legal regimes. She holds a PhD from UQ (2025).

Sruthi's main research interests focus on the intersections of intellectual property law and the governance of genetic resources. Sruthi is particularly interested in how legal systems conceptualise scientific objects, knowledge and “information” in the context of agriculture, genetics and biotechnology. Having recently completed her PhD she is now exploring how emerging debates expose the limitations of current legal frameworks, in both domestic and international legal systems, and highlight the need for more responsive and tailored approaches to the regulation of genetic resources.