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Dr Kriz completed a Bachelor of Economics (Honours 1st Class) at the University of Sydney and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Sydney's Business School. She has been a visiting researcher at the Turku School of Economics (University of Turku) and the Adam Smith Business School (University of Glasgow) and was a Consultant at Mercer Consulting and Research Manager at Incept Labs. During her career in industry Dr Kriz was involved in major research projects (e.g. co-developing a ground-breaking diversity and inclusion blueprint for the investment banking industry in Australia; project managing a research project commissioned by the AICD involving over 100 Chairs). Dr Kriz's Honours thesis explored ambidexterity or the ability to undertake both radical and incremental innovation, and she was awarded the University's Canon Honours Scholarship. Her Ph.D. explored innovation among high-tech firms and during her doctorate, she also worked on a related innovation project for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which involved over 50 interviews with key stakeholders.

Anne is a leader in pre-emptive, evidence-based digital research and practice empowering external media organisations and communications stakeholders to address misinformation. At UQ she is currently building a Community of Practice with industry and students called 'AI and the next generation of journalism'. Anne was APAC director for global online verification experts First Draft News for four years and Associate Professor (academic) and interim co-director of the Centre for Media Transition at UTS. Anne is a subcommittee board member for Australia's first misinformation and disinformation regulatory code of practice, enacted by the communications and media regulator ACMA and administered by peak industry DIGI. Anne was co-chief investigator on behalf of DIGI during the code's development while at UTS/First Draft. Anne also serves on the national ethics board for the MEAA as an independent member. Anne is a grant recipient of UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) and has authored numerous guidebooks and articles on verification, responsible reporting and information disorder in Australia and Southeast Asia. She has developed communications strategies and training preparing disaster managers and responders to climate and other emergency events. She has developed training for online celebritities and influences on how to not be a misinfluencer and instead protect and lead against misinformation. Anne was an Assistant Professor of Practice and Head of Broadcast at the University of Hong Kong where she established a digital verification lab in 2014 collaborating with technologists Meedan, and led media literacy projects with UNESCO throughout APAC. Anne was an anchor at CNN Hong Kong during SARS, and later a finance reporter at Bloomberg TV. She began her career in Toowoomba for WIN TV, was later ABC Landline presenter for four years, 7pm weekend news presenter for Queensland, fill in ABC News Breakfast host and held digital producer and Chief of Staff roles. Anne has a PhD in social media verification education.

My current research is all about finding ways to improve teaching and student learning, with a focus on biology and other sciences. This is a new and exciting direction for me to which I and my group are now dedicated. Of particular interest to me is finding ways to improve communication abilities of science students through the design, testing and implementation of effective curricula, class activities and assessment methods. Naturally, no learning occurs in isolation, so my current research also looks at learning scientific reasoning, information literacy, and how to improve the relevance and authenticity of practical/lab classes and assessment tasks.

Previously my research focussed on using physiological approaches and techniques to address questions in ecology, conservation and aquaculture, especially in vertebrates living in extreme environments (see references for examples). I continue to be involved in biological research through teaching, co-supervision and examination of postgraduate students.

My current projects aim to find effective ways to...

• Improve abilities of first year biology students to work effectively in groups.
• Improve science students’ communication abilities through the development and implementation of a new 3rd year course titled Communicating in Science.
• Improve scientific reasoning and writing in first year biology students.
• Improve tutor support and consequently student learning through implementation of a program of tailored tutor professional development.
• Improve information literacy in first year biology students.
• Motivate students to improve their biological knowledge and use of modern communication technologies by implementing authentic assignments throughout the curriculum e.g., websites, video, blogs.
• Improve the ability of students to articulate the skills and knowledge they develop in undergraduate ecology research through the use of a skills portfolio.
• Improve student practice and confidence in avoiding plagiarism and adhering to academic integrity.

Veronika Kuchta received her Diploma degree in Mathematics at the Heidelberg University in Germany in 2010. She reseived her PhD in applied cryptography at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom in 2016. She worked as a postdoc at the Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium from 2016-2018. From 2018 till 2020 she has been a Research Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. FromDecember 2020 to July 2022 she was employed by The University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics as a lecturer in mathematical cryptography. From November 2022 she is Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, USA), department of mathematical sciences. Her research interst focus on the different areas of mathematical cryptography, post-quantum cryptography and its applications to the real-world.

Associate Professor Arutha Kulasinghe leads the Clinical-oMx Lab at the Frazer Institute, University of Queensland and is the Founding Scientific Director of the Queensland Spatial Biology Centre (QSBC) at the Wesley Research Institute. A/Prof Kulasinghe has pioneered spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and interactomics in the Asia-Pacific region, contributing to world-first studies in lung cancer, head and neck cancer, and tissue atlasing studies of infectious diseases across pandemics. His research aims to understand the underlying pathobiology by using an integrative multi-omics approach. A/Prof Kulasinghe is supported by the MRFF, NHMRC, US DoD, Cancer Australia, Cure Cancer and numerous hospital and philanthropic organisations.

I have a long-term research interest in investigating autophagy pathways and organelle dynamics in a variety of physiological processes and disease models, and to exploit this knowledge for the design of new therapeutics. My research focuses on understanding various signalling pathways involved in autophagy and the work has led to discovering new functions of mTOR signalling, a pathway central to growth and metabolism at the Golgi apparatus.

Dr. Shanal Kumar is an adult endocrinologist with a special interest in complex chronic diseases, particularly diabetes, bone health, and metabolic disorders. She has a focused expertise in endocrine and metabolic complications in adults with cystic fibrosis. As a clinician-academic, her experience spans qualitative, pilot and observational studies, clinical trials, and translational research, with an emphasis on rapid implementation into clinical practice.

Researcher Biography

Dr Snehlata Kumari is the head of skin inflammation and immunity laboratory at the Frazer Institute, the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She is a board member of the Australasian Society for Dermatology Research (ASDR).

After PhD and post-doctoral training in Germany, she is heading her research group with a focus on elucidating molecular mechanisms and underlying signalling pathways regulating inflammation. She has discovered novel mechanisms by which NF-kappaB, TNF, necroptotic and apoptotic signalling pathways control skin homeostasis and inflammation and published in top-tier journals such as Nature and Immunity.

Her scientific contributions received recognition from the global immunology and dermatology scientific communities including the German National Academy of Sciences, German Research Foundation (SFB), European Society for Dermatological Research, and the 2021 Christina Fleishmann Award for the Young Women Investigator from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society, USA

Overall aims and research focus

- Understanding molecular mechanisms of epithelial and immune cell communication in skin homeostasis and immunity.

- Elucidating signalling pathways and cytokines/chemokine interactions to develop novel drug targets and strategies to treat skin diseases such as Psoriasis, Hidradenitis Suppurative, Atopic Dermatitis.

Dr Andy Kuo is a Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director at the Centre for Integrated Preclinical Drug Development (CIPDD), a Tier 2 Infrastructure Centre located in the School of Biomedical Sciences at UQ. With expertise in preclinical translational research, in the last ten years Dr Kuo in the role of Study Director, has managed the conduct of numerous R&D contract-funded and collaborative research grant-funded studies that are/have been undertaken in accordance with the requirements of CIPDD’s electronic Quality Management System (eQMS), which is rare in Australia.

To date he has successfully conducted/managed over 60 research projects, conducted in accordance with the requirements of CIPDD’s eQMS framework. His extensive experience encompasses experimental procedures and the management of preclinical studies, particularly in the areas of animal model development/validation, pharmacodynamic readouts, pharmacokinetics, and toxicology.

Despite the demands of working in an NCRIS (National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy)-funded National Centre that is a key partner in Therapeutic Innovation Australia’s (TIA) Small Molecule Therapeutics Capability focused on IP-sensitive research, he has sustained a robust publication record, with 32 publications and 2 book chapters. Additionally, he has submitted 46 commercial-in-confidence study reports to industry and academic collaborators contributing significantly to the field of novel therapeutics innovation.

Dr Nyoman Kurniawan is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advanced Imaging and the Facility Manager for Preclincal 16.4T Microimaging 9.4T MRI scanners.

Dr Kurniawan’s research areas are:

• Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging of mouse neuroanatomy, with view to study neurological disease model, including:
  • developmental abnormalities
  • spinal cord diseases
• Development of 3D mouse brain, human spinal cord and cephalopod brain atlases using high resolution structural and diffusion MRI
• Development of MR methods for nephron imaging
• Application of MRI for agriculture imaging