Ashraf Ayoub is the professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Glasgow, the UK since 2003. He is the editor of the Oral Surgery section of the International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and the director of the university’s postgraduate programme (MSc, OMS). He is leading a research group to study facial deformities using the recent advances in 3D/4D imaging. Prof. Ayoub is the lead surgeon of a team that includes orthodontics, technologists, psychologist and computer scientists to investigate facial malformations. He has received several awards & honors published 138 articles, 63 of them are related to 3D/4D facial imaging and lectured on the same topic locally, nationally & internationally. Prof. Ayoub’s research team was successful in obtaining several research grants to conduct extensive multidisciplinary research projects to characterize facial deformities and quantify surgical changes. He also supervised several Ph.D.’s in the area of stereophotogrammetry and edited a textbook on the correction of dentofacial deformities. In collaboration with colleagues, he organizes the Glasgow biannual course on the recent advances in the diagnosis and management of dentofacial deformities.

Professor Ayoub is the principal investigator and leading a team of researchers to study the utilization of the recent advances in bone bioengineering for maxillofacial reconstruction. The team was successful in obtaining a research grant to conduct an extensive animal research and a clinical trial. The results of this investigation were presented locally, nationally, and internationally in addition to 30 published articles in refereed journals. The results were translated to the human application; BMP has been successfully used for the reconstruction of an alveolar cleft. In recognition of his contribution to the field of bioengineering, he was elected a member of the executive committee of the United Kingdom Society of Biomaterials (UKSB) in 2008. Professor Ayoub was nominated for the Best Undergraduate Student Teaching Award 2013/14 and was awarded the University of Glasgow Best research supervisor award, in 2015