New professors at the Faculty of Science

André Carl
CARL ANDRÉ
Born: 1958
Title of doctoral thesis: Settlement of bivalve larvae: the role of larval behaviour predation and hydrodynamics
Carl André was born in Lund and earned a Higher Education Diploma in Biology at Stockholm University in 1985. He did his doctoral studies at the Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory and obtained his doctoral degree in Zoology, Aquatic Ecology, from Stockholm University in 1992. Following a postdoctoral appointment at Dalhousie University in Canada he returned to Stockholm and became Docent (Reader) in 1996. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Marine Ecology, Marine Population Ecology, at the University of Gothenburg in 2002. On 15 June 2010 he was appointed Professor of Marine Ecology at the Department of Marine Ecology.

Andréasson Håkan
HÅKAN ANDRÉASSON
Born: 1966
Title of doctoral thesis: On Lorentz invariance, regularity and global existence for kinetic equations
Håkan Andréasson was born in Jönköping and earned his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Chalmers University of Technology in 1997. He then went on to spend a year at Princeton University, USA, and one semester at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany. His research area covers mathematical aspects of general relativity theory related to black holes and cosmology. His research has a particular focus on the global properties of solutions to the Einstein-Vlasov system. In October 2010 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Gottfries Johan
JOHAN GOTTFRIES
Born: 1958
Title of doctoral thesis: Gangliosides and glycosyltransferases in human fetal brain and medulloblastoma
Johan Gottfries was born in Lund, became a chemist in Umeå in 1986 and obtained his doctorate on the subject of glycolipids as cancer biomarkers in the central nervous system at the Department of Neurochemistry, University of Gothenburg, in 1990. He has been active in the industry for almost 20 years at AstraZeneca and has among other things contributed to the development of new medicines within the areas of stomach ulcers, inflammation and metabolism. He has at the same time also pursued an academic career and is since 2002 Adjunct Professor in Umeå. In October 2010 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry.

Gunnarsson Bengt
BENGT GUNNARSSON
Born: 1954
Title of doctoral thesis: Spiders in a seasonal environment
Bengt Gunnarsson was born in Mölndal and obtained his doctorate in 1987 from the University of Gothenburg. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Swedish National Science Research Council as well as Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University College. Since 1996 he teaches Environmental Science at the University of Gothenburg. His main research area is Urban Ecology. On 15 June 2010 he was appointed Professor of Applied Environmental Science at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

Liu Kui
KUI LIU
Born: 1968
Title of doctoral thesis: Regulation of Matrix Degrading Proteases during formation and regression of the Corpus Luteum
Kui Liu was born in Jinan, China, and obtained his doctorate in 1999 at Umeå University. After completing a postdoctoral position in 2003 at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, he returned to Umeå University as an assistant professor. In 2008 he was assigned a researcher position funded by the Swedish Research Council. In the same year, he received Erik K. Fernström’s prize for his research on molecular reproduction. On 1 February 2011 he was appointed Professor of Molecular Biology at the Department of Cell- and Molecular Biology.

Pilon Marc
MARC PILON
Born: 1966
Title of doctoral thesis: The latent membrane protein 1 of Epstein-Barr virus: transient expression and phenotypic effects in human B cells
Marc Pilon was born in Montréal, Canada, and has studied cellular, molecular and developmental biology at McGill University. After completing two summer projects at the Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon he moved to Umeå, where he obtained his doctorate in 1994 after successfully presenting a doctoral thesis on the Epstein-Barr virus. A three-year postdoctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley, made him a developmental biologist, and in 1998 he started working with the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans at the University of Toronto. He was recruited to Chalmers University of Technology in 2001 and became Docent (Reader) in Genetics at the University of Gothenburg in 2006. On 31 May 2010 he was appointed Professor of Genetics at the Department of Cell- and Molecular Biology.

Power Deborah
DEBORAH POWER
Born: 1961
Title of doctoral thesis: Post Secretory Processing of Gastrin in Pigs
Deborah Power was born in Glasgow and has studied at the University of London and at the University of Liverpool. She is currently Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Algarve in Portugal. She performs research within the area of comparative molecular endocrinology and is particularly interested in thyroid-regulated metamorphosis in bony fish, the development of G-protein linked receptors, and the skeleton and mechanisms for calcium homeostasis. Her research results are useful in the areas of aquaculture, endocrinological problems and biotechnology. In May 2010 she was appointed Visiting Professor of Zoophysiology at the Department of Zoology.

Spetea Wiklund Cornelia
CORNELIA SPETEA WIKLUND
Born: 1968
Title of doctoral thesis: On the mechanism of photosystem II reaction centre D1 protein degradation induced by excess visible- and ultraviolet-B in isolated systems from green plants
Cornelia Spetea Wiklund was born in Bucharest and obtained a doctoral degree in Biology in 1996 at the Jozséf Attila University in Szeged, Hungary. From 1997 to 1999 she was a Postdoctor at Stockholm University. From 2000 to 2001 she was an associate Researcher, from 2002 to 2007 an assistant professor, and in 2007 she became Docent (Reader) [A1] in Molecular Cell Biology at Linköping University. From 2008 to 2010 she served as Senior Researcher within the field of Biological Supramolecular Systems and Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Linköping University. Her research has led to new theories on the regulation of photosynthesis. On 1 February 2011 she was appointed Professor of Plant Cell Physiology at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Until 2014 the appointment will be linked to a position as Senior Researcher.

Tamás Markus
MARKUS TAMÁS
Born: 1970
Title of doctoral thesis: The Saccharomyces cerevisiae glycerol channel protein Fps1p: analysis of its function and regulation during osmotic stress
Markus Tamás was born in Färlöv. He studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the universities in Lund, Sweden, and Liège, Belgium, and spent a year as research scholar at the Public Health Research Institute in New York. He obtained his doctorate from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1999 and was awarded an assistant professorship in 2003 by the Swedish Research Council. On 1 May 2010 he was appointed Professor in Eukaryotic Microbiology at the Department of Cell- and Molecular Biology.