Speakers
Thomas Baudinette
Dr Thomas Baudinette is Senior Lecturer in International Studies in the Department of Media, Communication, Creative Arts, Language and Literature. A cultural anthropologist, his research focusses on Japanese media and its impacts on understandings of gender around the world. His first book is Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo (2021, University of Michigan Press). His current research investigates the transnational spread of "Boys Love" media fandom and celebrity, focussing on South Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines. Thomas has also been investigating the impacts of Korean media fandom on sexual minority communities in Australia and Japan.
Presentation title: Asian Popular Culture Fandom in Australia and its Emancipatory Impacts for LGBTQ+ Youth
Haoran Ren
Dr Haoran Ren is an ARC DECRA Fellow at Macquarie University. His nanophotonic research aims to develop advanced optical materials and nanotechnology for both fundamental light-matter interactions and broad photonic applications. Dr Ren received a PhD from Swinburne University of Technology in 2017. He was a postdoc at RMIT University from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, Dr Ren won a Victoria Fellowship to visit the CNRS in France. In 2019, Dr Ren was awarded a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and moved his research to LMU Munich in Germany. In December 2020, he started a MQRF at Macquarie University.
Presentation title: Metafibre optics
Kelly Miles
Kelly Miles is a research fellow in the multidisciplinary ECHO Lab in MU Hearing. Her research program explores the detection and prediction of communication breakdowns with a focus on social interactions and how people with hearing loss navigate communication challenges. Her approach to research is highly disciplinary, linking hearing science and acoustics with human movement and cognitive science. She received her Honours degree (First Class) and PhD at Macquarie University. Kelly has worked with the National Acoustic Laboratories and various laboratories within Macquarie University to enrich our understanding of human interactions and advance innovation and intervention surrounding communication breakdowns.
Presentation title: Predicting communication breakdown during social interactions
Madelyne Bisby
Dr Madelyne Bisby is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Clinical Psychologist in the School of Psychological Sciences. By integrating her background in developmental neuroscience with clinical trial research, Madelyne’s research explores how and why psychological treatments are effective. Her current research focuses on developing and evaluating brief online treatments for anxiety and depression. Madelyne co-hosts the podcast "Science of Therapy" and can be found on Twitter.
Presentation title: The promise of online single-session treatments for anxiety and depression
John Burn
John Burn completed a Science degree many years ago and has been teaching science for more than 35 years. He began Egyptology as a hobby but got hooked. After a few seasons in Egypt, a doctorate was inevitable. Combining his degree in environmental science with his masters in Egyptian Art, his PhD attempted to link changing climatic events with changes to the tomb decoration repertoire of Old Kingdom tombs. The thesis presents a developing environmental narrative portrayed on the tomb walls.
Presentation title: The A.R.I.D. Hypothesis
Margo Lecompte-Van Poucke
Dr Margo Lecompte-Van Poucke obtained a PhD from Macquarie University in 2019 through the Macquarie Research Excellence Scholarship (MQRES) scheme. Her thesis was titled: ‘Power and ideology in the New Caledonian independence debate: A pragma-functional approach to Critical Discourse Analysis’. Margo is a Linguist, with a background in field linguistics, and a Sessional Teaching Academic at Macquarie University. Her research is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on (critical) discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, argumentation theory, semantics, and social media communication. She is particularly interested in investigating the impact of power and ideology on meaning-making practices within different cultural and other contexts.
Presentation title: Damaging Lockdowns: Australian Doom Discourse on Reddit
Ilya Fomin
Ilya Fomin has been working in Macquarie University since 2018. He develops codes to solve big data problems in geophysics in collaboration with Geoscience Australia, De Beers and research institutions. His background includes a PhD in computational fluid dynamics (ETH Zürich) after he graduated in petrology from Lomonosov MSU. Ilya’s scope of professional interests includes deep optimisation and tuning of the existing algorithms and creation of a state-of-the-art multi-technique MCMC driver to process the data. He is keen to apply his skills and experience to problems outside geophysics. His hobbies include hiking, caving and playing the guitar.
Presentation title: Using MCMC to reveal the deep Earth structures
Rebecca Kuhnert
Rebecca completed her PhD in developmental psychology at the University of Sydney in 2016. She worked in the NGO sector focusing on youth mental health and suicide prevention before joining Macquarie University in 2020 as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Her research is focused on developing a school-based mental health screening survey for primary and secondary students, and identifying different pathways to care for students identified through screening as needing additional support for their mental health.
Presentation title: Youth mental health screening in schools
Matteo Malavasi
Matteo Malavasi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Risk Analytics at Macquarie Business School. Matteo holds a PhD in Analytic for Business from the University of Bergamo (XXXI Cycle) in cotutelle with Macquarie University, Australia. His research focuses on financial mathematics, applied probability and computational methods for economics and finance, including risk management, cyber risk, applications of stochastic orderings to portfolio selection problems, and environmental economics. Matteo is a research fellow on the projects "Developing a Decision Tool for Customers Factoring in Optimal Leasing Solutions and Carbon Emissions" in partnership with Toyota Fleet Management, and "Quantification of Cyber Risk and Its Driving Risk Factors", in partnership with Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub.
Presentation title: Better Understanding and Managing Cyber Risks
Poon Leung
Poon Leung is a Lecturer in the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics at Macquarie University (MQU), and has held this position for two years. He is the current unit convenor of ACST1001 – Finance 1A, a large-cohort, first-year unit, and has developed a variety of digital educational content. He is also currently working on a self-studied mathematics course targeted at MQU undergraduate students. His research interests are around technology use in higher education, and technology integration for online education.
Presentation title: Assessing the impact of lecture recordings
Sheemal Kumar
Sheemal is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dr. Maciej Maselko’s lab in Applied BioSciences. She works on genetic biocontrol of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, and she is also the involved in genetically engineering insects to for value added waste management for a circular economy.
Presentation title: Engineering insects as value-added livestock feed with environmental benefits
Fabiola Barba Ponce
Dr Fabiola Barba Ponce is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Risk Analytics and a lecture at the Global Leadership Program. Her research focuses on behavioural transformation, psychological adjustment to change and skill utilisation. Her current industry-funded research project develops African migrant leadership, social and economic integration through developing regenerative farming and food-related business in regional Victoria and NSW. Fabiola is the founder of Relationswitch, a research-based consultancy specialised in productivity and the psychological changes overlapping work and life. Her research has positioned her as a TEDx speaker, on SBS and valedictorian graduation ceremonies, so as in advisory boards.
Presentation title: Refugee background female leadership, regenerative farming and social business creation
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