Marie-Claude Corbeil earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry from University of Montréal. She then specialized in Inorganic Chemistry and Crystallography and completed, at the same university, a Master's program in 1984 and a Ph.D. program in 1987. In 1988, she joined the Analytical Research Laboratory of the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI), where she performed analyses of museum objects and conducted research on the materials and techniques of 20th-century Canadian artists such as Alfred Pellan, Tom Thomson and Jean Paul Riopelle. She was involved in several examinations related to art fraud cases at the request of law enforcement agencies and is frequently consulted on questions regarding authenticity. She is currently Manager of the Conservation Science Division at CCI. Marie-Claude has been Vice-chair of the Canadian Association for Conservation, Associate Editor and Co-editor of the Journal of the Canadian Association for Conservation and Editor of Studies in Conservation. She was the Coordinator of the Working Group on “Scientific Methods of Examination of Works of Art” (now “Scientific Research”) of the Committee for Conservation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CC) for two terms (1996-2002) and served on the Directory Board of ICOM-CC as Vice-chair (2005-2008) and Chair (2008-2011). Since 2004, she has been a Field Editor for Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts.