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
- Associate 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.
