Rate My Professor Selwin Samuel

Dr. Selwin Samuel is a Clinical Associate Lecturer in the School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, where he serves as Course Coordinator and Lecturer for dental programs including DENT2044, DENT7121, and DENT7101. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology from the University of Queensland in 2023, through the Faculty of Medicine. His PhD thesis, titled 'Role of infections and gut microflora in the development of neurogenic heterotopic ossifications following spinal cord injury in a mouse model,' examined bone immunology and infectious complications associated with spinal cord injuries. Samuel possesses a diverse background in clinical dentistry, forensic odontology, immunology, and translational biomedical science, with affiliations to the Child Health Research Centre and collaborations at Mater Research Institute - University of Queensland.

Samuel's research interests encompass oral-systemic inflammation, particularly the interplay between oral health and systemic immune responses in chronic conditions, as well as forensic odontology involving human identification via dental records, bite mark analysis, and dental age estimation techniques. His publications include 'A glucocorticoid spike derails muscle repair to heterotopic ossification after spinal cord injury' in Cell Reports Medicine (2024, co-authored with Kylie A. Alexander et al.); 'Interleukin-6 does not contribute to neurogenic heterotopic ossification pathogenesis' in Neurotrauma Reports (2024); 'Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides Exacerbate Neurogenic Heterotopic Ossification Development' in Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (2023); 'Reliability of London atlas for dental age estimation in an Australian cohort' in International Journal of Legal Medicine (2025); and 'Validation and comparison of Blenkin Taylor Atlas and the London Atlas on an Australian population subset for dental age estimation' (2026). Additional works cover inflammasomes in bone homeostasis (2022), facial psychophysiology in forensics (2020), and dental age estimation studies (2018). He received runner-up for the 2023 Biomedical HDR Prize at the Mater Research Showcase, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, and the Mater Research International Travel Award in 2022. Samuel's multidisciplinary contributions advance understanding of bone pathology post-trauma and forensic dental applications.