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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 currently Professor in Endodontics and Applied Materials at the University of Birmingham. 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 also 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 170 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 immediate past President of the Dental Materials Group of the International Association of Dental Research and an expert for British Standards Institution and International Standards Organization. Josette serves as the Chief Specialty Editor for Dental Materials in Frontiers in Dental Medicine and a Senior Editorial of Scientific Reports (Nature). She is the Editor of Endodontic Materials in Clinical Practice, published by Wiley and Mineral trioxide aggregate. From preparation to application and Bioceramic Materials in Clinical Endodontics published by Springer.