Josette Camilleri

Josette Camilleri trained as a dentist at the University of Malta and completed her doctoral training as a Commonwealth scholar after being awarded a split site scholarship enabling her to work under the supervision of the late Professor Tom Pitt Ford, King’s College London. She has worked as a clinician at St Luke's Hospital in Malta followed by an academic career starting at the Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta and the Faculty of Dental Surgery, University of Malta, Malta. She is currently the Head of Dentistry at the University of Birmingham and a Professor in Endodontics and Applied Materials. She is also founder and Director of Birmingham Materials Testing Services (BiMaTS), an operating division of University of Birmingham Enterprise. Her research interests include endodontic materials such as root-end filling materials and root canal sealers, with particular interest in mineral trioxide aggregate, Portland cement hydration and other cementitious materials used as biomaterials and in the construction industry. Her research work has been key to the discovery of the role of sodium hypochlorite interactions with bismuth oxide and its link to tooth discolouration. Josette has published over 180 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and her work is very well cited. In 2018, she has been awarded the Louis Grossman prize by the French Endodontic Society and is the first female recipient of this prestigious award. She is currently the President of the Dental Materials Group of the International Association of Dental Research. Josette has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and her work is cited over 13,000 times.Three of her publications on the chemistry of mineral trioxide aggregate have been placed in the top 50 most cited papers in International Endodontic Journal.In 2018, she has been awarded the Louis Grossman prize by the French Endodontic Society and is the first female recipient of this prestigious award. She is the Chief Specialty Editor for Dental Materials in Frontiers in Dental Medicine and a senior editorial board member of Scientific Reports (Nature).  She is currently Vice-president Elect of the Dental Materials Group of the International Society of Oral and Dental Research.She is an expert for British Standards Institution and International Standards Organization. She is the MSc Endodontology course director at the University of Birmingham.