Marie Cornelis

Professor Marie Cornelis is the Professor and Head of Orthodontics at the Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. She received her dental degree in 1999 and postgraduate specialist degree in orthodontics in 2003 from the Université catholique de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. In 2007, she was a visiting research scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and defended her PhD on miniplates as temporary skeletal anchorage devices in orthodontics in Brussels in 2008. She also completed a two-year postgraduate degree in lingual orthodontics from Université René Descartes, Paris V, France, in 2010.

Professor Cornelis's academic career includes roles as Assistant Professor at the Department of Orthodontics, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2009–2014), and Associate Professor and Postgraduate Program Director of Orthodontics at Aarhus University, Denmark (2014–2020), where she became Head of Section in 2015. Her research specializations encompass clinical orthodontics, skeletal anchorage, digital workflows, retention protocols, treatment stability, three-dimensional imaging and analysis of pharyngeal airways and soft tissues, CAD/CAM retainers, orthodontic biomechanics, and sleep-disordered breathing in orthodontic patients. She has produced 71 peer-reviewed publications accumulating over 2,300 citations. Key works include "Retention in orthodontics: an evidence-based overview" (2025), "Skeletal versus conventional anchorage in dentofacial orthopedics: an international modified Delphi consensus study" (2025), "Orthodontic forces and moments of three-bracket geometries" (2025), "Clinical Effectiveness of Upper Vacuum-Formed Retainers Used in a Dual Retention Protocol After Orthodontic Treatment: Retainer Failures and Upper Arch Stability. A 24-Month Prospective Cohort Study" (2025), and "Three-dimensional pharyngeal airway changes associated with orthodontic mandibular advancement therapy in growing patients with mandibular retrusion: A retrospective case-control study" (2026). She has earned the WJB Houston Oral Research Award from the European Orthodontic Society (2008) and the Dewel Award for best clinical paper in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (2012 and 2023). Professor Cornelis serves as Associate Editor for Seminars in Orthodontics and is a member of the Angle Society of Europe, European Board of Orthodontists, and Australian Society of Orthodontics.

Professional Email: marie.cornelis@unimelb.edu.au