Biomechanics, biomaterials and oral implantology: Key personnel and collaborations

Academic and research staff

Programme directors

• Dr Carolina Loch Santos Da Silva
• Professor Warwick Duncan

Key staff members

• Professor Andrew Tawse-Smith
• Professor Darryl Tong
• Professor Karl Lyons
• Professor Sunyoung Ma
• Associate Professor Manikandan Ekambaram
• Associate Professor May (Lei) Mei
• Dr Angela Clark
• Dr Jithendra Ratnayake
• Dr Joanne Choi
• Dr Kai Chun (KC) Li
• Dr Ludwig Jansen van Vuuren
• Mr John Aarts
• Mrs Wendy Jansen van Vuuren

Honorary staff members

• Professor Momen Atieh
• Professor Patrick R. Schmidlin (University of Zurich, Honorary Professor at Otago)
• Professor Neil Waddell
• Dr Johann Zwirner

Current postgraduate students

PhD

Aziz Alhamdani
Chen Chen
Christina Gee
Eisha Imran
Evon Fu
Ghsaq Mahmoud
Lucy Henderson  
Tiya Zhang
Xiao Li

SJWRI PhD students, projects and supervisors

DClinDent

Ai Chen
Carey Lim
Clarine Cheah
Elora Low
Karson Low
Lucy Jiang
Neeraj Anand
Nina Mohammad Rom
Ping Chen
Steven McKinstry
Sumaia Alsafadi
Tony Sun
William Cho
William Low
Zaid Dohan

Interested in joining our programme?

View research opportunities at the SJWRI

National and international collaborations

Our work is multidisciplinary, and we collaborate with a wide range of researchers nationally and internationally.

National

• Auckland University of Technology
• Environmental Science and Research
• Massey University
• University of Canterbury
• The University of Auckland

International

• Anhui Medical University, China
• Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, UAE
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• University of Western Australia
• University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
• University of Zurich, Switzerland
• South Australian Museum
• Smithsonian Institution, USA
• The University of Hong Kong

Programme Co-Director Dr Carolina Loch, holding two sperm whale teeth from the Dental Anatomy museum collection