Carsten Carlberg
Carsten Carlberg (born December 13, 1963) is a German biochemist. He is professor of biochemistry at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, Finland. Biography. Carlberg was born in Hamburg, Germany. He attended school at Bremen, Germany, graduating in 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 a diploma in biochemistry. Thereafter he worked in the team of Burghardt Wittig and in 1989 received his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) for his studies on the interaction of polymerases with DNA  secondary structures at the Free University of Berlin. From 1989 to 1992, Carlberg was a post-doctoral fellow in the team of Willi Hunziker at the Central Research Units of Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel, Switzerland, and started his work on the gene regulation of Vitamin D. From 1992 to 1997, he worked in the Dermatology Department of Jean-Hilaire Saurat at the University of Geneva, where he continued his studies of gene regulation by nuclear receptors. In 1997, Carlberg received his Habilitation at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, and was research group leader in the Department of Physiological Chemistry  of . In 2000, Carlberg was appointed full professor of biochemistry at the University of Kuopio, which in 2010 merged with the University of Joensuu to form the University of Eastern Finland. In 2006, he took a second affiliation at the University of Luxembourg, in order to create the Master program in Integrated Systems Biology there. From 2008–2013 he was one of 4 principal investigators at the Finnish Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes Research. Work and publications. Carlberg's research is focused on epigenetics with special focus on Vitamin D. Over 280 of his publications are  listed in the Science Citation Index. These have been cited more than 10,500 times, according to ResearcherID. Carsten Carlberg's h-index is 57. Carsten Carlberg published textbooks on "Mechanisms of Gene Regulation", "Nutrigenomics," and "Human Epigenomics."