Drawing back the curtain on QUT
Join us for an evening of lively discussion with leading figures in Queensland’s dynamic STEM landscape. Engage with some of QUT’s legends to discuss opportunities for industry & academic engagement, professional development, and the longstanding partnership between WiT and QUT.
The panel will discuss QUT as an employer of choice and its commitment to addressing real-world problems across a broad range of fields, including global leadership in data analysis and open access.
Meet your facilitator:
Bernadette Hyland-Wood is a researcher at the QUT Centre for Data Science and QUT Digital Media Research Centre. Her focus is government digital policy and leadership in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the United States. Dr Hyland-Wood’s current research maps rapid advances in generative AI & Indigenous Data Sovereignty. She has authored highly cited research on crisis communications and COVID-19 and has been featured in media outlets, including the ABC and Radio New Zealand. Previously, Bernadette was a serial tech entrepreneur based in Brisbane and later Washington DC where her team developed the world’s first commercial graph database based on linked data. Tucana Technologies was acquired by a US Fortune 100 company. She served as CEO of a semantic technology spin-out from MIT.
Meet your panelists:
Professor Margaret Sheil AO is Vice-Chancellor and President of QUT, Australia, having previously been Provost at The University of Melbourne (2012-2017) and Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Council (2007-2012). She has been an academic in chemistry and held a number of senior roles at the University of Wollongong, including as Dean of Science and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research).
Professor Sheil is Chair of the Board of the Queensland Museum Network, Deputy Chair of the Board of Universities Australia and the lead Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation for Universities Australia. She is currently Panel Chair of the independent review of the Australian Research Council.
In 2017 Professor Sheil was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her distinguished service to science and higher education as an academic and administrator, through significant contributions to the national research landscape, and to performance standards.
Dr Marie-Luise Wille received the BSc and MSc degrees in physics from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and the PhD degree in medical physics from QUT. She is currently a senior research fellow at QUT as well as the Deputy Director of the ARC Training Centre in Multiscale 3D Imaging, Modelling, and Manufacturing. She has a strong research focus on optimising bench-to-bedside workflow with the help of enabling technologies and combining medical imaging, 3D modelling and 3D printing. She was instrumental in the design and prototyping of the world largest biodegradable tibia implant.
Early 2022, she was awarded the REDI Fellowship and is currently working together with the global MedTech company Stryker to improve the workflow of patient specific implants. She was also the winner of the 2022 WiT Rising Star Science Award and as well as the 2022 Centre for Biomedical Technologies Emerging Researcher Award.
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