Rate My Professor Aisya Ahmad Zamri

Aisya Ahmad Zamri is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Health Sciences Division, University of Otago. She holds a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences with Honours (BBiomedSc(Hons)) from the University of Otago. In October 2019, she completed her Master of Science (MSc) thesis titled 'Characterisation of Arcuate Nucleus Projections to Dopaminergic Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area', supervised by Professor Brian Hyland at the University of Otago. Throughout her academic career, she has focused on contributions to teaching and research in physiology.

Aisya Ahmad Zamri teaches into several undergraduate papers, including Human Body Systems 1 (HUBS191), Human Body Systems 2 (HUBS192), Physiology 231 (PHSL231), Physiology 251 (PHSL251), Dental Sciences 2 (DENT262), Physiology 232 (PHSL232), and Physiology 233 (PHSL233). She serves as the convener for PHSL101: Physiology for Sport and Exercise. In November 2025, she co-presented a verbal presentation titled 'Associations between heart size and anthropometric and cardiovascular indicators: An undergraduate physiology teaching laboratory' at the University of Otago Learning and Teaching Symposium: Learning through the Lens of Educators (Hybrid). Her peer-reviewed publications include 'Associations between heart size, anthropometric and cardiovascular indicators: An undergraduate physiology teaching laboratory' in Advances in Physiology Education (2025, advance online publication, doi:10.1152/advan.00254.2024), co-authored with Madyson O. Hintz, Elizabeth W. Erickson, Frosina Barlev, Sean Coffey, and Regis R. Lamberts. She also contributed to 'Thalamic paraventricular nucleus: Bridging homeostatic and reward pathways in the control of feeding' in the Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (2022), edited by K. Horne, with co-authors Stefanie Seeger-Armbruster, M. Wang, R. E. Campbell, and B. I. Hyland. Additionally, Aisya Ahmad Zamri serves on the Publicity and Events Committee and as a Kaiāwhina Māori providing support to Māori students in the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences.