Dr. Noor Azlin Yahya is a senior academician at the Department of Restorative Dentistry, Universiti Malaya. She has held key leadership roles, including Head of the Dental Materials and Operative Dentistry Disciplines and Coordinator of the Biomaterials & Thermal Characterization Research Laboratories. Dr. Noor Azlin began her studies with a Federal Scholarship for Dentistry in New Zealand under the Collaborative University of Malaya-University of Otago Programme. She pursued postgraduate studies in Restorative Dentistry at the Leeds Dental Institute, University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and testing of dental materials, leading to numerous ISI publications and the supervision of over 50 research projects. She has received more than 40 awards, including gold medals at international research expositions in Brussels, Nuremberg, and Geneva. Dr. Noor Azlin is President of the IADR Malaysian Section, Vice President of the Malaysian Dental Materials Society (MDEMS), and a board member of the Asian Network of Dental Materials Societies (ANDeMS). She is also an Adjunct Professor at Universitas Airlangga and a Visiting Professor at Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia.