Carsten Carlberg

Background

Carlberg was born in Hamburg, Germany.

Education

He attended school at Bremen, Germany graduating 1981 with Abitur at the Gymnasium an der Bördestrasse. From 1982 to 1987 he studied Physics and Biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, finishing with diploma in biochemistry. Thereafter he worked in the team of Professor

Burghardt Wittig and in 1989 received his Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Natural Science) for his studies on the interaction of polymerases with deoxyribonucleic acid secondary structures at the Free University of Berlin.

Career

He is professor of biochemistry at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, Finland. 1989 to 1992 Carlberg was post-doctoral fellow in the team of Doctor Willi Hunziker at the Central Research Units of Hoffmann-Louisiana Roche in Basel, Switzerland, and started his work on the gene regulation of vitamin Doctorate. 1992-1997 he moved to the Dermatology Department of Professor Jean-Hilaire Saurat at the University of Geneva, where he continued his work on gene regulation by nuclear receptors.

1997 Carlberg received his Habilitation at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, and was research group leader in the Department of Physiological Chemistry of Professor

Helmut Sies. In 2000 Carlberg was appointed full professor of biochemistry at the University of Kuopio, which since 2010 fused with the University of Joensuu to the University of Eastern Finland. From 2006-2011 he took a second affiliation at the University of Luxembourg, in order to create there the Master program in Integrated Systems Biology.

From 2008-2013 he was one of 4 PIs of the Finnish Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes Research. Carlberg is married with three children.

Achievements

• 1987: Thesis grant of the „Fonds der Chemischen Industrie“ • 1989: Post-doctoral fellowship grant of the „Fonds der Chemischen Industrie“ • 2000: Habilitation prize of the Medical Faculty of the University of Düsseldorf • 2006-2009: Coordinator of the European Union-funded Marie Curie Research Training Network „NucSys“ • 2008-2011: Study director of the Master of Science program in Integrated Systems Biology (MISB) • 2009-2011: European lead of the European Union-United States Atlantis program-funded Master of Science program „CanSys“.