Dr. Mark Ryan, publishing as Mark David Ryan, is an Associate Professor in film and screen and a Chief Investigator for the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). He is an expert in screen industries research, Australian genre cinema,  genre film studies, and digital media. He was the President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAAZ) between 2015 and 2018 and an Executive Member of Australian Screen Producers Education and Research Association (ASPERA) in 2015/2016.

He is a Chief Investigator of various funded research projects:

• Valuing Web Series: Economic, Industrial, Cultural and Social Value (LP180100626)(2019-2023)
• Australian Cultural & Creative Activity: A Population & Hotspot Analysis (LP160101724)(2017-2020)
• 2018 Innovation Connections Grant
• 2018 QUT, Institute of Future Environments (IFE) Catapult Project