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Dr Noor Azlin Yahya is a senior lecturer at the Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya. Currently, she is the Head of Dental Materials Discipline and Operative Dentistry Module, Coordinator of Biomaterials Research Laboratory, Head of Biomaterials and Technology Research Group at the same faculty. In addition, she is also the Head of International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS), University of Malaya. Previously, she has served as the Head of Biomaterials Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya until the unit was dissolved in 1998.

She was one of the recipients of the Federal Scholarship to Study Dentistry in New Zealand under the Collaborative University of Malaya-University of Otago. Later, she pursued her postgraduate study in Restorative Dentistry at Leeds Dental Institute, University of Leeds.

Her paper on ‘Probing the improbable: imaging carbon atoms in alumina’ written with well-known materials scientists and physicists during her doctoral study at the University of Oxford became one of the seminal paper in atomic probe tomography. It has shed light the possible characterization of crystalline materials using atomic probe tomography (APT) which was thought impossible before.

She has been involved in various clinical and laboratory research work and her main research interest is in synthesis, characterization and testing of various dental materials. She has written numerous ISI publications including papers in Acta Materialia, Operative Dentistry, Ceramics International, International Journal of Prosthodontics, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Tribology International and Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials.

She is the Royal College of Surgeons of England examiner for the MJDF Part II Examination. She has supervised more than 20 postgraduate research work and theses and has served as reviewers for various international Journals. She holds more than 5 patents under her name including  ‘polyurethane oligomers for use in restorative dentistry’ and ‘alumina-C ceramic’ which had been patented in Malaysia, UK and USA. Additionally, she has won over 30 medals including gold medals at International Research Expositions in Brussels, Nurnberg, Geneva, London and Pittsburgh. She and her students had also won the Asia Ceram X Clinical Competition when it was first introduced in 2005. In 2019, she has been selected to participate in Asia Pacific Kerr Elite –Restorative Leaders Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.

For details go to link: https://umexpert.um.edu.my/nazlin