Academic and research staff
Programme directors
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
Biomechanics, biomaterials and oral implantology programme main page
Until 2014, the theme of oral biomechanics was led by the late Professor Jules Kieser (1950-2014). A Trust in Professor Kieser's name has been inaugurated as a tribute to his work and contribution.