Advisory Board and Editors Dentistry
Ashith B Acharya
Dr. Ashith B. Acharya is an Australia-trained forensic odontologist – having completed his Bachelor’s degree in dentistry in 1999 and his postgraduation in 2001 – and heads India’s first exclusive department of forensic odontology in SDM College of Dental Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka. With over 18 years academic experience, he teaches undergraduate and graduate students, and serves as a consultant in forensic dental, anthropological, and archeological cases referred by the police, government agencies and forensic medical experts from across India. He is a founder-member of the Indian Association of Forensic Odontology and currently its Secretary. He is an editorial board member/reviewer in several national and international journals; he has served as a member of the International Organisation for Forensic Odonto-Stomatology’s Age Estimation Workgroup and is currently on its Bite Marks Workgroup. He has published 45 journal articles, 35 of which have appeared in top international forensic and dental journals; he has also contributed to government reports, and chapters on forensic odontology to eminent textbooks such as Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology.
Mohammad Khursheed Alam
Dr. M.K. Alam is a Professor, Orthodontics (since September 29, 2021), Associate Professor (October 2016 to September 2021), and HEAD Preventive Dentistry Department (August 2017 to September 2020), College of Dentistry, Jouf University and former Orthodontist at Orthodontic Unit, School of Dental Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia (5.6 years), HEAD and Assistant Professor, at Department of Orthodontics, Bangladesh Dental College, Dhaka University (3.1 years). He received his dentistry training at the University of Dhaka (2001) and his Ph.D. in Orthodontics from Hokkaido University, Japan (March 2008). His H index is 30 and RG score is 43. He has supervised more than 25 MSc, MOMSurg, and Ph.D. students as a main and co-guide. Currently, he is the supervisor for more than 6 postgraduate students at the school of dental sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia with both national and international platforms. He has both academic and clinical lead for orthodontics; with more than 800 publications and authors for plenty of books and chapters. He is a member of the Editorial and Review Board of many International and National Journals. He has been the invited speaker at several university orthodontic departments and guest speaker at lectures and courses worldwide.
Veerasathpurush Allareddy
Dr. Veerasathpurush Allareddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthodontics at College of Dentistry - The University of Iowa.
Rafael Reimann Baptista
Rafael Reimann Baptista, PhD, is a Full Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil. He is also member of the Brazilian Society of Biomechanics. Professor Baptista completed his PhD in Human Movement Sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 2011. Professor Baptista maintains active membership of numerous professional and academic societies. In 2012, he was awarded by the Young PhD grant by the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS), Brazil. In 2017, he was the President of the XVII Brazilian Congress of Biomechanics, supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological (CNPQ), the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, and the Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement (CAPES). Professor Baptista sits on the editorial board for the Frontiers in Physiology as Associate Editor in Exercise Physiology and at the Editorial Board of PeerJ Life and Environment, and has published 78 papers including 30 in international peer-reviewed journals according to Scopus, with a 9 h-index. He is a frequent invited keynote speaker at academic conferences and educational events across Brazil and South America. He works in exercise physiology and biomechanics, with an emphasis in the clinical aspects of gait in older adults. He coordinates the Physical Activity Research and Evaluation Laboratory (LAPAFI) at the School of Health and Life Sciences at PUCRS.
Brian L Beatty
Dr. Brian Beatty is a comparative anatomist, paleobiologist at New York Institute of Technology. He is especially interested in convergent/unique evolution of aquatic amniotes to similar physiological constraints, as well as surface metrology and its relationship to underlying microstructure of bone, skin, and endothelia.
Ricardo Castro Alves
Dr. Ricardo Castro Alves specialises in periodontology and is the Head of the Department of Periodontology at the Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz. His is also Head of the Clinical Research Unit at Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Egas Moniz (CiiEM), Co-Coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program in Clinical Periodontology, Professor of the Post-Graduate Program in Implant Dentistry and an invited Professor at several Post-Graduation Courses.
Robert Druzinsky
I am an evolutionary biologist and functional morphologist with diverse interests. My major focus is on the evolution of the masticatory apparatus of mammals, particularly rodents. I am also working on an anatomy ontology for muscles of the head and neck in tetrapods. I also study the biomechanics of teeth, as well as the neurophysiology of mastication.
Maha El Tantawi
Professor of Dental Public Health in Alexandria University, Egypt.
Theodore Eliades
Theodore Eliades is Professor and Director of the Clinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Director of Research, and Interim Director of the Institute of Oral Biology at the Center of Dental Medicine, University of Zurich. He graduated from the School of Dentistry, University of Athens, Greece, and completed the Orthodontic postgraduate program of the Ohio State University under Ze’ev Davidovitch. He earned a Master of Science degree from the Ohio State University, a doctorate in medical sciences from the University of Athens, School of Medicine, and a PhD in Biomaterials with Prof. D.C. Watts from the University of Manchester.
His research has generated over 200 papers and 45 book chapters, which have received ca 7000 citations and an h index of 45 (google scholar). He has edited 11 textbooks published by major houses, some translated into 5 languages, and has co-supervised more than 25 doctorates and 30 Master’s at the Universities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Marquette, Manchester, Bonn and Zurich. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and the first dentist who was awarded the Fellowship grade of membership from both, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics (UK).
Shahroo Etemad-Moghadam
Associate Professor at Dental Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
DDS, MS, Observer at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), Washington D.C.
Associate Editor/Editorial Board: Frontiers in Dentistry, BMC Cancer.
Research Interests: Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Angiogenesis, Odontogenic Benign and Malignant Lesions, Cellular and Molecular interactions in Cancer
Imran Farooq
Dr. Imran Farooq’s research interests include dental biomaterials and their application in remineralizing enamel and treating dentin hypersensitivity.
Daniel Fischer
I studied Statistics and Computer Sciences at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. During that time, my interest was particularly in mathematical statistics with a focus on high-dimensional extensions of the univariate median. After graduating, I moved to Tampere, Finland and completed my PhD in at the University of Tampere in Biostatistics with minor Bioinformatics.
While still being enrolled as PhD student at the University I started to work as a researcher in Bioinformatics at the MTT, Jokioinen, Finland. Since 2015 I am working at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) where I finalized my PhD.
My published articles in peer-reviewed journals cover a wide range of applications as well as statistical theory. My areas of expertise are target gene detection, biomarker identification and novel gene detection with a special focus on long non-coding RNAs. Further, I have experiences in the development of statistical methods for DE testing as well as deriving novel non-parametrical tests for (e)QTL analyses. I published and maintain currently six R-packages, i.e. for (e)QTL testing, cross-species ortholog detection and dimension reduction methods.