Professor Tina Soliman Hunter is a Professor of Energy and Resources Law at Macquarie University. She is the former Director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL)

She teaches and researches in the area of petroleum law (offshore), Arctic resources law, shale gas law and fluvial sediments in Siberia. She has received academic qualifications in marine sediments and geology, political science, applied science, and law, completing her PhD at the University of Bergen in Norway. Much of her research is multidisciplinary in nature, and includes working with engineers, geologists and political scientists.

She is presently an Honorary Professor at the University of Eastern Finland and Murdoch University, and a Visiting Professor at the Biological Research Institute, Tomsk State University, Russian Federation.
Tina has undertaken teaching and research in numerous countries including the UK, Australia, Norway, Canada, Iceland, Greece, Finland, Russia, the USA, and the Philippines. Her expertise in regulating petroleum activities has been sought worldwide, undertaking activities such as analysing petroleum laws, drafting legislation and advising governments, industry groups and NGO's worldwide.

Tina's current research interests include: mitigating the environmental impacts of resource extraction, the role of science in the regulation of resource extraction activities, offshore wind licensing and regulation, shale gas extraction in Australia, energy security, Arctic petroleum law, regulation, and environment, multidisciplinary approaches to resource regulation, State control in hydrocarbon extraction, the new hydrogen economy, and Indigenous and religious concepts in natural resources law.

Professor Soliman Hunter is presently the Leader of the multidisciplinary UK-Russian Consortium of Researchers and Experts in Northern Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems (CRENAME), a team of researchers from Tomsk, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Macquarie and Aberdeen Universities, investigating seabed sediment contamination arising from oil spills and microplastics, its implication for legal reform, and development of specialised tools for cleaning such contamination. She is also currently a member of the South Austrlian Roundtable for Oil and Gas Projects.

To date, Tina has published eight books and over one hundred articles, book chapters and conference papers. She is currently working on a book on Russian Petroleum Law, the first of its kind. She is also currently writing on a number of areas, including Russian Arctic fuel security and the role of gas in Australia's energy transition.