Dr. Vilhelm Grétar Ólafsson, DDS, MSc.

Dr. Vilhelm (Villi) Olafsson graduated from the School of Dentistry at the University of Iceland in 2007. He practiced privately for five years along with teaching operative dentistry part-time at the University of Iceland, before moving to North Carolina to pursue further education in 2012. In 2015 he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a MS-degree and a Clinical Certificate in Operative Dentistry. He then moved back to Iceland and joined the University of Iceland as a full-time Assistant Professor in Operative Dentistry and Cariology, in addition to practicing privately in Reykjavik, Iceland. He took on the responsibility of section head of Operative Dentistry and Cariology in 2020, and obtained his tenure at the university in 2021. His teaching responsibilities include clinical and didactic teaching in operative dentistry and cariology at the pre-doctoral level, as well as mentoring those pursuing degrees at the Master´s level. He is active in laboratory and clinical research, focusing mainly on the fields of dental erosion and composite resins. He lectures and gives courses nationally and internationally on a variety of topics in the restorative and aesthetic field. He is a member of the Academy of Operative Dentistry, the International Association for Dental Research, has been a board member of the Icelandic Dental Association and Icelandic Young Dentist Society, is a past president of the Continuing Education Committee of the Icelandic Dental Association and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Icelandic Dental Association