Academic and research staff
Programme directors
Key staff members
- Professor Andrew Tawse-Smith
- Professor Darryl Tong
- Associate Professor Manikandan Ekambaram
- Associate Professor May (Lei) Mei
- Professor Sunyoung Ma
- Dr Angela Clark
- Dr Jithendra Ratnayake
- Dr Joanne Choi
- Dr Kai Chun (KC) Li
- Mr John Aarts
- Mr Ludwig Jansen van Vuuren
- 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
Asar Badarnesh
Christina Gee
Deanna Beckett
Eisha Imran
Yipeng (Evon) Fu
DClinDent
Ai Lin Tee
Clarine Cheah
Nina Mohammad Rom
Rayner Goh
Steven McKinstry
Sumaia Alsafadi
Tony Sun
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
Dr Carolina Loch, co-director of our Biomaterials, biomechanics and oral implantology research programme.
Professor Warwick Duncan, co-director of our Biomaterials, biomechanics and oral implantology research programme.
Andrew Tawse-Smith and Liz Girvan (OMNI) in the scanning electron microscopy suite.
More information
Biomechanics, biomaterials and oral implantology programme profile
(Extract from 2019-2020 SJWRI Research Report, PDF 192 Kb)
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.