Dr. Ivo Marek, PhD, graduated with a degree in Dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine at Palacky University in Olomouc in 1990. He completed a three-year training program for Orthodontics in 1999 and finished his postgraduate study of Orthodontics at the Orthodontic Department of Dental School at Palacky University in Olomouc in 2007, where he earned his PhD. Dr. Marek runs his Private Dental Clinic in Breclav, where he focuses on interdisciplinary dental care. Above all, he focuses on the collaboration of orthodontists with periodontists and implantologists. He was first working with Invisalign in Czech Republic.

 Dr. Marek works as an Associate Professor at the Orthodontic Department of Dental School, Palacky University, in Olomouc, in both graduate and postgraduate study programs. In addition, he is a part-time teacher at the Orthodontic Department of the Faculty of Medicine in Brno and at Charles University's Faculty of Medicine, in Prague. 

 He has published more than 55 articles and has given over 220 lectures in the Czech Republic and abroad (Poland, U.S.A, Taiwan, Singapure, Holland, England, Slovakia, Italia, Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Australia, etc...). 

  Dr. Marek is a Vice President of the Czech Orthodontic Society, and not only a member of the European Orthodontic Society, but also the American Orthodontic Society and the World Orthodontic Society, European Aligner Society. In 2007, he was appointed Honorary Member of the Implantology Club of Czech Republic for the partnership between the fields of orthodontics and implantology. Furthermore, he is a member of the editorial board of the journal “Ortodoncie” (Orthodontics) and reviewer of the journal “Ortodoncie” and The Angle Orthodontist, European Journal of Orthodontics and Journal of Aligner Orthodontics. He is member of the accreditation committee of the Ministry of Healthcare and a representative of the Czech Orthodontic Society in EFOSA, as well as an AAO Ambassador and member of Council of European Orthodontic Society since 2016.