CURRICULUM VITAE
CARSTEN BERNDT
education and affiliations
2015- Group leader "Thiology"
2011- Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany (Hans-Peter
Hartung, since 2020 Sven Meuth/Orhan Aktas)
2007-2010 Institute for Clinical Cytobiology and Cytopathology, Philipps-Universität Marburg,
Germany (Roland Lill/Christopher Horst Lillig)
2004-2011 Medical Nobel Institute for Biochemistry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
(Arne Holmgren)
2018-04-12 Habiltation, PD, venia legendi in Biochemistry
"Vertebrate Glutaredoxins"
Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
2004-06-18 PhD / Doctor rerum naturalium
“[FeS]-cluster in assimilatory sulfate reduction”
supervisor: Jens-Dirk Schwenn, Department of Biochemistry of Plants, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, Germany
2000-09-29 diploma in biology
“Regulation of plastidic gene expression: Role of alternative sigmafactors”
supervisor: Gerhard Link, Plant cell physiology and molecular biology, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, Germany
scholarships and awards
2022 research grant, Forschungskommission, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine Universität,
Düsseldorf, Germany
2021 research grant, Biogen Idec.
2021-2023 research grant, DFG GRK 2578 "Impact of genotoxins on the differentiation efficacy of
murine and human stem and progenitor cells and functional competence of thereof
derived differentiated progenity", Bonn, Germany
2017-2020 research grant, DFG priority program 1710/2 " Dynamics of thiol-based redox switches in
cellular physiology", Bonn, Germany
2016-2019 research grant, DFG priority program 1927 " Iron-Sulfur for Life", Bonn, Germany
2016-2018 research grant, Forschungskommision, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine Universität,
Düsseldorf, Germany
2014-2017 research grant, DFG priority program 1710 “Dynamics of thiol-based redox switches in cellular physiology”, Bonn, Germany
2013-2015 research grant, Biogen Idec.
2012-2014 research grant, Forschungskommission, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine Universität,
Düsseldorf, Germany
2012-2014 research grant, Gemeinnützige Hertie Stiftung, Frankfurt, Germany
2012, 2011, 2010,
2009, 2008, 2007 junior research grants, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 EU grant for a short term scientific mission within the COST program
2004-2010 postdoctoral fellowships from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 junior research grant, stem cell network North-Rhine Westfalia (Kompetenznetzwerk
Stammzellforschung), Düsseldorf, Germany
2007 research grant, Stiftung P.E. Kempkes, Marburg, Germany
2006 Karolinska Institutet Travel funds and Axel Hirsch´s travel funds, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 young investigator award, Society for Free Radical Research – International
2005-2007 postdoctoral fellowships (Forschungsstipendium) from the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany
work as scientific reviewer and editor
2022- associate editor Biochim. Biophys. Acta-General Subjects
2021- associate editor Redox Physiology (a speciality section of Frontiers in Physiology)
2020- editorial board Redox Biol.
2017- editorial board Arch. Biochem. Biohys.
2022/2023 Guest editor of apecial issue of Redox Biol. entitled "Ferroptosis in health and disease"
2019/2021 Editor of the book "Redox regulation of differentiation and de-differentiation" in the series
"Oxidative stress and disease", CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Eds. Enrique
Cadenas and Helmut Sies (book)
2014/2015 Guest-editor of a special issue of Biochim. Biophys. Acta entiteld “Redox regulation in
differentiation and de-differentiation” (August 2015)
2012/2013 Guest-editor of a special issue of Biochim. Biophys. Acta entiteld “Cellular functions of
glutathione” (May 2013)
2007/2008 Guest-editor of a special issue of Biochim. Biophys. Acta entiteld “Redox control of cell
function” (November 2008)
reviewer journals
Acc. Chem. Res., Angew: Chem:, Antioxid. Redox Signal., Arch. Biochem Biophys.,
Biochim. Biophys. Acta, Biol. Chem., BMC Neurosi., Br. J. Pharmacol., Cell. Death. Diff.,
Cell Death Dis., Chem. Biol., Chem. Sci., Curr. Med. Chem., Differentiation, Environ.
Microbiol., FEBS J., Free Rad. Biol. Med., Front. Cell. Develop. Biol., Front. Physiol.,
Future Microbiol., Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol., Int. J. Develop. Neurosci., J. Alzheimers Dis.,
J. Interf. Cytok. Res., J. Neurosci., Nature Cell Biol., Neurochem. J., Neurosci. Letters,
Peer J., Physiol. Res., PLOS Biol., PLOS One, Prot. Sci., Redox Biol., Sci. Rep., Trends in
Plant Sci., Tuberculosis, Oxid. Med. Cell. Longev.
third-party-funding
ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), Diabetes UK, DFG (german research foundation), National Science Center Poland, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation