Prof. Dr. Josette Camilleri obtained her Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Master of Philosophy in Dental Surgery from the University of Malta. She completed her doctoral degree, supervised by the late Professor Tom Pitt Ford, at Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London. She has worked at the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta, and at the Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Surgery, University of Malta, Malta. She is currently Head of Dentistry and Professor of Endodontics and Applied Materials at the University of Birmingham's College of Medicine and Health. Her research interests include material characterization with a special interest in endodontic materials and hydraulic cements. She has been instrumental in the development of hydraulic materials for endodontic applications and also discovered the mechanisms of tooth discoloration caused by bismuth oxide in dental cement. In 2018, she was awarded the Louis Grossman Prize by the French Endodontic Society and is the first female recipient of this prestigious award. She is also co-founder of Birmingham Materials Testing Services BiMaTs.