Dr. Wilmes did a postgraduate training in oral surgery at the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at University of Muenster, Germany. Subsequently, he received a postgraduate degree in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics at the University of the Duesseldorf, Germany. In 2004 he became Assistant Professor, in 2013 Professor at the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Duesseldorf. Dr. Wilmes is reviewer of numerous journals and has held more than 250 lectures and courses on skeletal anchorage in 40 different countries all over the world. Dr. Wilmes is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He was awarded the First Prize of the German Orthodontic Society in 2007 and the First Prize of the European Orthodontic Society in 2009.