Founder and Director

Josette Camilleri trained as a dentist at the University of Malta and completed her doctoral training as a Commonwealth scholar by 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 a Professor in Endodontics and Applied Materials at the University of Birmingham and works as a specialist endodontist at the Birmingham Community Health Care Trust. She is also founder and Director of Birmingham Materials Testing Services (BiMaTS), an operating division of University of Birmingham Enterprise. Josette also set up and directs the MSc Endodontics program at the University of Birmingham.

Josette’s research interests span from endodontics to dental materials with specific focus on clinical protocols, standardisation of material testing, hydraulic cements and in particular lab to clinical translation. She has an international ranking both as a clinical researcher and also as a materials scientist. 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. 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.

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). Josette is also an expert for British Standards Institution and International Standards Organization.