Marta Carroni#
| Membership Number: | 7184 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.scilifelab.se/researchers/marta-carroni/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7697-6427 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/marta-carroni-433ab9290/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2024 Docent, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Since 2021 Platform Director, Cellular and Molecular Imaging Platform, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Since 2016 Head of Unit, Swedish Cryo-EM Facility, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm node, Stockholm University, Sweden
- 2010 - 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of biological sciences, Birkbeck College, London, UK
- 2010 PhD in Biophysics, Imperial College London, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Biophysics, London, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein-protein interactions and regulation
- Structural and molecular biology
- Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM)
- ATPase molecular machines
- Protein quality control
- Method development in electron and light imaging
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Theorell Prize - by the Swedish Society for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (SFBBM) “for her great contributions to make cryo-electron microscopy available to Swedish researchers, educate users of the Cryo-EM unit at SciLifeLab and also carry out significant research on her own”. by the Swedish Society for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (SFBBM) “for her great contributions to make cryo-electron microscopy available to Swedish researchers, educate users of the Cryo-EM unit at SciLifeLab and also carry out significant research on her own”
- 2018 Female innovators - Italian Association of Women Inventors and Innovators (ITWIIN) for her contributions to the development of electron cryo-microscopy in Sweden
- Member of the international advisory board for the Portuguese CryoEM National Platform
- Member of the International Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee scientific advisory board for CERIC-ERIC
- Member of the scientific advisory board for the European Twinning program IMpaCT (ended)
- Member of three doctoral committees (12-03-2021, student Davide Zabeo, Supervisor: Johanna Högg, Gothenburg University; 17-03-2023 student Andrew Emmerich and on 05-10-2023, Shreya Pundir, Supervisor: Suparna Sanyal, Uppsala University) and chair for doctoral defences
- Editorial boards: Guest Editor Frontiers Molecular Biosciences
- Grant reviewer for: EMBL ARISE program, NovoNordisk, ERC external, Human Technopole Institute (Italy), France Infrastructure Fundings, Norway Forskningsrådet
- Invitations at numerous international cryo-EM courses as expert (EMBO courses - both Europe and India, invited lectures at UK and German universities examples lectures at Leicester cryo-EM course, at ESRF, at Biochemical Society, invited at KAUST- Saudi Arabia symposium), Latest invitations I got for this year are for webinar at MP Frankfurt, Keynote lecture at the Women in electron microscopy 2025 conference organised by Ernst Ruska Centre for Microscopy an Spectroscopy with Electrons Julich and at the International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology 2025 at EMBL Grenoble.
