Our Team
The people behind JawSense
Two founders who live with this themselves, the engineers who build the sensor and the app, and the clinicians who tell us when we're wrong.
Leadership
Founders
They started it and they set the direction: a wearable built to medical-device standards, with a smart biofeedback system inside it — patent granted in the Netherlands, pending in other regions. Everyone below builds it with them.
How JawSense startedRaised the funding behind the work, several prestigious grants among it, and drove the wearable's development against strict standards: built following ISO 13485, CE and UKCA marked. An economist by training, he spent years in finance in London before moving into healthcare ventures — coming at a jaw problem from outside dentistry is why we looked at the whole system rather than only the teeth.
Analysed the data and built what runs on it. The bruxism detection and the biofeedback algorithms are hers, developed on more than a terabyte of overnight recordings — and tested, first, on herself. Degrees in engineering and business, an MSc in mathematics, and years of quantitative finance behind her: she started this because she lived with it, and because someone who models things for a living would rather measure a problem than keep guessing at it.
Women TechEU is the EU's programme for women-led deep tech. JawSense is one of the companies it selected.
The Team
Core Team
The people who design, build and write the thing you actually use.
Greta Slivinskaite
Embedded & Application Software Engineer
Develops the firmware that powers our biofeedback device.
Ross Gentry
Mechanical Engineer
Designs and develops the mechanical components of our biofeedback device.
Arturo Gala
Industrial Designer
Crafts the user experience and physical design of our products.
Sonal Grover
Mobile App Developer
Dr Dara Akioye
Educational Video & Community
Makes the explainer videos and answers the questions that come in — also on our clinical review team.
Clinical review
The people who check our work
A multidisciplinary group — sleep medicine, dentistry and physiotherapy — reviews our content before it reaches you, each within their own field.
Dr Sara McNeillis
Sleep Medicine Consultant
UCLH
Dr Harriet Beaty
Dentist & Biomedical Scientist
Kevin Powell
Chartered Physiotherapist · TMJ
Dr Dara Akioye
Dentist · Digital Health Fellow
Reviews our clinical content, and fronts our educational videos and Q&A.
Advisor
Our scientific advisor
Philippe is an academic who works on health research. He tells us where the research on jaw behaviour has got to, and what our own studies should try to answer next.
Prof. Philippe Wilson
Scientific Advisor
York St John University
Professor of One Health, bringing decades of research experience in health sciences.
Internships
New people, real problems
We like having students around, and we like explaining this stuff. They get a question worth exploring rather than busywork, a lot of our time, and a proper look at the science of jaw behaviour and the technology we've built to measure it.
Thien Nguyen
King's College London · MSc Computer Science
An LLM-based coach for TMD self-management, with retrieval-augmented generation and a safety evaluation.
Sanika Gadgil
King's College London · MSc Computer Science
A recommendation engine that matches exercises, meditations and reading to how someone is actually using the app.
Jacelyne Tan
King's College London · MSc Computer Science
A dashboard for clinicians and researchers: longitudinal symptoms, adherence, and where behaviour and symptoms move together.
Abdulahi Sharif
King's College London · MSc Computer Science
A gamified CBT/ACT module for flare-ups — practising psychological flexibility through interactive scenarios.
Zhi Xin Soo
King's College London · MSc Computer Science
Clustering and time-series analysis to find user subtypes, and models for what predicts relief or drop-off.
Martijn Vroon
Erasmus University · MSc Econometrics
Data-driven go-to-market and healthcare pathways.
What backs the work
2022
founded — four years building the wearable and the algorithms before selling anyone anything
1TB+
of overnight jaw-muscle and sleep recordings, gathered by us
5
clinicians and researchers who review what we claim before it reaches you
Backed by
We started in London and now run R&D from Delft as well; the team works across the UK and the Netherlands.
If you want to work on this, we'd like to hear from you. Write to us
The JawSense app
When you want to know what your own jaw is doing
The app is free and works from today — check-ins, exercises and routines, all there before you spend anything.
Free · iOS & Android · works without the device