Associate Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland Shelley is passionate about helping women and couples achieve their goal of starting a family through optimising their health to improve their fertility, their pregnancy, and beyond. She achieves this through tailoring knowledge from the scientific research to individual’s situations and preferences. Shelley has worked as a dietitian since 1995. She specialises in the area of women’s health, including lifestyle change to improve fertility, nutrition for the healthiest pregnancy possible, and practical advice for new mums. She was the Senior Research Dietitian at the Mater Mothers Hospital for 12 years and is now a service development and redesign expert in the Mater Mothers’ Department of Obstetric Medicine. She also works part time an Associate Professor in the UQ School of Pharmacy as a Senior Principal Research Fellow on the RECARD project and is the Director and Principal Dietitian at Lifestyle Maternity. Shelley's main research interests include: Implementation Science and Translating Research into Practice Health service redesign through co-creation Nutrition and maternal health ('The first 1000 days') Digital technologies and platforms to facilitate behaviour change Shelley is an Associate Editor for Dietitians Australia’s national journal, Nutrition and Dietetics. In 2010, Shelley received Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian status as recognition of her professional leadership and expertise. The high quality of her research has been recognised with six awards in the field of Evidence-Based Practice and Clinical Research. With 38 peer reviewed publications in the past 5 years, she has an h-index of 23 and her Field-Weighted Citation Impact score (1.48) is above average for her discipline, particularly in the areas of Gestational Diabetes (FWCI 2.89), Digital Health (FWCI 3.57), Intestinal flora (FWCI 4.13), and Social Media (FWCI 8.94).
Senior Lecturer in Human Movement, University of South Australia I have a keen and active interest in exercise physiology, particularly relating to how humans interact with the environment. I have a research and industry focus in the development of extreme heat policies in sport and exercise. This covers both youth and adult involvement, and community through to elite competitions. Secondly, I research injury prevention in youth sports, ranging from injury surveillance projects through to testing the efficacy of injury screening tools.
Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison My interests lie at the interface between fluid and solid structures in soft biological matter. The dynamics of bodies immersed in fluids at small scales is of great practical and biological interest, but fluid interactions on such scales are inherently nonlocal so their analysis and even computation can still be very challenging. I approach problems in biological propulsion, cell mechanics, and fluid-body interaction systems using a number of techniques, from the application of classical methods of applied mathematics to the development of novel numerical methods.
Lecturer in Molecular Ecology and Environmental Management, Edith Cowan University My research focuses on the application of genetic information to conservation management of threatened species across a range of different taxa. Particularly, my research focuses on how mixing genetically distinct populations might improve the conservation status of threatened species, and how we might better design genetic mixing programs for conservation.
Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Victoria Dr. Sorin Rizeanu joined the Gustavson School of Business in 2010 teaching managerial and international finance to graduate and undergraduate students. Sorin’s research interests primarily focus on corporate governance and international finance, with the goal of assisting investors to better valuate firms and understand firms’ dynamics. His work has been published in the Contemporary Accounting Research, International Journal of Economics and Finance and Journal of Management and Governance. His research includes analysis of the structure of a firm’s ownership, the quality of the external audit, firm’s cash flow, managerial strategy, taxation strategy, country institutional strength, and its impact on firm valuation and debt maturities, among others. These are part of his interest in the larger set of corporate governance mechanisms, designed to prevent extraction, tunnelling, derivation of large private fortunes at the expense of the providers of finance, often expropriated through pyramidal structures, political corruption and other firm or system embedded structures. Before joining the University of Victoria, Sorin studied and taught at the Moore Business School at the University of South Carolina. He hails from Bucharest, Romania where he took his undergraduate and MSc degrees and worked in international sales, project management and management consulting.
Tropical Ecologist in the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Université d’Antananarivo Seheno Andriantsaralaza is a biologist based in Madagascar. She holds a PhD degree in biology and ecology from the University of Antananarivo in collaboration with CIRAD (France). Her dissertation research focused on seed dispersal of two Malagasy baobab species. She is the principal investigator of the ARO Baobab Project, which aims to revitalise baobab forests in Madagascar.
