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I am a designer / technology researcher / illustrator / (reluctant) academic / (recovering) marketer — with over a decade of experience working across emerging technologies, telecommunications, consumer goods, and design consulting sectors. I am interested in the human and social aspects of designing technology, in collaboration with users. I enjoy working on human-computer interaction projects, developing participatory design tools and methods, design fictions, and using speculative approaches in my work.

Asad is a methodology expert with over 25 years of research experience in behavioural epidemiology, public health, mental wellbeing, and intervention research. He has established a vibrant multidisciplinary research team with global experts to strengthen his program of research spanning active lifestyles and health equity.

Asad’s research involves epidemiological modelling of large multi-country data to examine the role of physical activity, screen time, social media, and sleep on mental health and wellbeing, especially in children and adolescents. He is also interested in identifying emerging challenges in equitable healthcare access for people with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds including immigrants.

His exceptional publication record includes over 230 articles in high-impact journals [e.g., Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (top in Pediatrics), and British Journal of Sports Medicine (top in Sport Sciences)]. He has attained >AU$13.0 million in competitive research grant funding as a Chief Investigator with >AU$10.0 million from 10 NHMRC/MRFF grants.

Asad has an outstanding track-record of supervision with completion of 16 PhD/MPhil student projects and is currently supervising 15 PhD/MPhil students. He has collaboration with leading universities, renowned organizations and industry partners across Australia and globally, and empowered over 20 early- and mid-career researchers from the Indo-Pacific region to conduct ethical and high-quality research.

Dr Aditya Khanna is a Lecturer (Applied Mechanics) at The University of Queensland (commenced 2023). Prior to joining UQ, Aditya worked as an engineering consultant (dynamics and vibration) at Vipac Engineers & Scientists Ltd and held an adjunct lecturer appointment at The University of Adelaide. Aditya's research and industry consulting background is in the areas of: stress analysis, fatigue and fracture assessment, structural dynamics, vibration control, and non-destructive testing,

I am a medicinal chemist, and my research focuses on developing chemical modification strategies to enhance the drug-like properties of bioactive peptides, modulating protein-protein interactions, and designing chemical tools to explore biological mechanisms.

Professor Kheruntsyan graduated from the Yerevan State University (Armenia, former Soviet Union) in 1988, and received PhD degree in Physics from the Institute for Physical Research of the Armenian Academy of Science in 1993. In 1996, he moved to the University of Queensland to work as a postdoctoral research associate and was subsequently awarded a UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Following this, he held positions of Lecturer, ARC Senior Research Fellow, Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (2003-2010), ARC Future Fellow (2010-2014), Associate Professor (2015-2017), and is currently Professor in theoretical physics in the School of Mathematics and Physics (SMP).

Dr. Kasra Khosoussi is currently a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor in the US) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland. Previously, he was the Team Leader for Robotic Mapping at CSIRO and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. Prior to that, he was also a Research Scientist (2019-2021) and a Postdoctoral Associate (2017–2018) at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and has served as an Area Chair for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) and an Associate Editor for ICRA and IROS.

His research focuses on the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robot perception and autonomy. He was a finalist for the ICRA 2018 Best Paper Award in multi-robot systems, received an honorable mention for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award in 2021, and won the Hilti SLAM Challenge at ICRA 2022.

Dr Hassan Khosravi is an Associate Professor in Data Science and Learning Analytics at The University of Queensland. As a computer scientist by training, he is passionate about the role of artificial intelligence in the future of education. In his research, he draws on theoretical insights driven from the learning sciences and exemplary techniques from the fields of human-centred AI and crowdsourcing to build technological solutions that enhance student learning and experience. His past research and publications have addressed a number of diverse topics such as learning graphical models, statistical-relational learning, social network analysis, cybersecurity and game theory.

Hassan's teaching career includes coordinating 30 different offerings with class sizes ranging from 50 to 700, in 10 distinct courses to a total of approximately 7000 students at three top-ranked institutions: Simon Fraser University (SFU) and The University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, and The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia. He has taught a range of courses including introductory programming courses, data structures and algorithms, artificial intelligence, database management systems as well as graduate-level data science courses. he also leads and teaches into a variety of formal and programs that mentor and foster the next generation of great teachers. These programs cover a wide variety of topics, including student-centred learning, active learning tools and strategies, supporting assessment design and delivery at scale, and enhancing teaching with learning analytics.

Hassan holds a Senior Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy, which has been awarded in recognition of his contributions to effective approaches to teaching and learning as well as successful coordination, support, supervision, management and mentoring of others in relation to learning and teaching.

Professor Khosrotehrani is a clinical scientist, dircetor of the Frazer institute, the university of Queensalnd, sharing his passion for academic medicine and translation of science discorveries into real world solutions for patients. Prof Khosrotehrani is a dermatologist, interested in skin biology, regenerative medicine and skin cancer. He leads the Experimental Dermatology Group at the University of Queensland Frazer Institute within the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia. Dr Khosrotehrani obtained his MD from the Cochin-Port Royal School of Medicine at René Descartes University, Paris, France, where he specialized in Dermatology. He is a former graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Institut Pasteur of Paris (Université Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie) where he obtained a PhD in Physiology and Physiopathology. He is a fellow of the Australian College of Dermatologists and a practising dermatologist at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Prince Charles Hospital and the Skin and Cancer Foundation’s Queensland Institute of Dermatology.

As the inaugural St Baker-Soyer chair of Dermatology at the University of Queensland, Professor Khosrotehrani is a national leader in the discipline of Dermatology. He is a board director at the Australasian College of Dermatologists and the Queensland Skin and Cancer Foundation and the director of the Dermatology Department at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. He has held multiple leadership roles as past-President of the Australasian Society for Dermatology Research, Editor in chief of the Australasian Journal of Dermatology and board member of the International Society of investigative Dermatology.

During his post-doctoral training at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, USA, Dr. Khosrotehrani helped establish the contribution of fetal stem cells to tissue repair by demonstrating their multipotent capacity with a specific potency towards the endothelial lineage. The originality of this work was acknowledged by the NHMRC through an achievement award (2011) and an NHMRC excellence award (2016). The main focus of his laboratory is on regenerative medicine and stem cell biology in particular in injury response in skin wounds and skin cancer and how these responses contribute to cancer initiation and progression. Translating his laboratory findings, Dr Khosrotehrani is leading innovative clinical trials in wound healing, keratinocyte cancers and melanoma.

Alexander Khromykh has PhD degree in Molecular Virology. He worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He then joined Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre in Brisbane and became a laboratory Head in 2001. He moved his laboratory to St Luica campus in 2005 to take an appointment with the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences (SCMB). He was the founding Director of the SCMB’s Centre for Infectious Disease Research and is currently the Deputy Director of the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre. He is also the Director of Centre of Excellence and a member of COVID-19 and Zika virus Task Forces in the Global Virus Network.

Dr. Behzad Kiani is a dedicated researcher specialising in spatial epidemiology of infectious diseases and human health, with a keen interest in advancing methodologies and applications within the field. Dr Kiani is currently a Research Fellow within UQ's ODeSI team. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Montreal, Canada and before that an Assistant Professor at Mashhad University of Medical Science in Iran.

Dr. Kiani's research expertise is geoinformatics using spatial regression models and spatial cluster analysis. He has a PhD in medical informatics and a Master's degree in computer science. His work has informed global public policy and making, including urban planning and health, health resource allocation and identifying high-risk areas for different diseases at specific locations over time to implement more efficient and effective health interventions. He is a member of the executive of the International Society of Geospatial Health and is an associate editor of the Geospatial Health Journal. Dr Kiani has over 70 scientific publications in high-impact journals, including seminal work related to identify high-risk spatiotemporal patterns of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran and gentrification, neighborhood socioeconomic factors and urban vegetation inequities in Canada". He is an accomplished and passionate teacher, as well as supervisor and dedicated to nurturing the next generation of spatial epidemiologists and instilling in them a deep understanding of the field's principles and applications to improve global health.

I am a Teaching Focussed academic and have been teaching in various disciplines of biomedical sciences since 2004. I feel most rewarded when I'm in the classroom engaged in direct mentorship of students' learning and development, acheived through collaborative peer and mentor activities and dialogue. Within the very large 1st and 2nd year courses I oversee, I am also invested in the development of our invaluable tutors as effective and high-quality mentors themselves, for every student.

My research interests are largely focused on students’ mastery of science communication and thinking skills, a highly complex and nuanced process. My research therefore focuses on supporting their acquisition of the conventions in science writing, critical thinking and science literacy, particularly in their early academic years, and better understanding the strategies they employ to facilitate this development. Feedback is an important component of this growth, so I am also interested in how students use and apply feedback, as well as developing tutors’ skills in the construction and delivery of rich feedback that is transferrable throughout students' progression.

I place a high value on feedback from students as well, consistently using this insight to inform our own practices in teaching and enhance the student experience. I am currently focusing on expanding my activities in this area through active collaboration with students as partners in the co-creation, review, design and evaluation of courses in biomedical science.

I have received my PhD in organic electronics from the University of Bordeaux, France, in 2016. Since then, I have been working as postdoctoral research fellow at Queensland Brain Institute, the University of Queensland in Australia, carrying out research in organic electronics, experimental physics, materials science, optics and neuroscience.

My main research project is focused on applying organic electronics to neuroscience, particularly to optogenetic studies involving light manipulation of neurons. Within this framework, I published, inter alia, 3 research articles demonstrating successful detection and stimulation of neuronal activity using organic photodetectors (OPDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and currently work on implantable organic neural probes. On a more fundamental level, I have pioneered the discovery of a novel method of light detection in OPDs, as well as contributed to the development of ultra-efficient infrared OPDs, reflected in many high-impact research articles.

My other areas of research also covers the development of smart wearable sensors for optimization of therapy in patients with Parkinson's Disease and other neurological movement disorders.

I am a passionate biomedical research scientist leading a multidisciplinary research program focused on advancing wound healing. My work spans the full translational spectrum from uncovering fundamental biological mechanisms to developing clinically relevant prototypes to improve outcomes across the healing continuum, from initial bleeding control to tissue regeneration.

My research draws on expertise in materials science, cell biology and signalling to investigate the dynamic reciprocity between cells and the extracellular matrix and how biophysical cues and biochemical signals together instruct cellular responses. This includes studying both the fundamental biology of wound healing and the complex signalling cascades that govern tissue regeneration with the goal of identifying and developing novel therapeutic agents.

By employing reductionist model systems, we dissect key biological processes to enable the rational design of effective therapeutic prototypes to address unmet clinical needs.

A central focus of the wound healing research program is the control, development and application of fibrin-based biomaterials, which serve as the body’s provisional healing scaffold. Serving as proregenerative, resorbable delivery scaffolds. The formulation with innovative active pharmaceutical ingredients, including next-generation RNA therapeutics and bioactive compounds derived from nature, such as venom-based molecules, repurposing natures innovation for therapeutic use to develop targeted prototypes.

Catherine is an academic, midwife, registered nurse and neonatal nurse with over 30 years clinical experience. Along with her continued clinical work Catherine has contributed to project, policy and advisory roles in Queensland Health.

Catherine joined the NMSW/UQ in as a lecturer 2015 after completing her PhD. She is the past Honours Co-ordinator for both Nursing and Midwiferyand has led the Masters of Midwifery program; researching health promotion and health care. Catherine is an active member of the Statewide Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Network.

In 2019 Catherine was awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) as international recognition to her committment to teaching and learning in higher education. Catherine teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students in nursing, midwifery, counselling and social work in the School.

Catherine continues to share the findings from her research at conferences in Australia and internationally and in peer reviewed publications. Her goal is to continue to promote maternal health with a focus on health service delivery.