Carl Petersen (neuroscientist)
Carl Christian Holger Petersen is a Professor of neuroscience at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.Professional Biography
Carl Petersen studied physics as a bachelor student in Oxford. During his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Sir Michael Berridge in Cambridge, he investigated cellular and molecular mechanisms of calcium signalling. In his first postdoctoral period, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Roger Nicoll at the University of California San Francisco to investigate synaptic transmission and plasticity in the hippocampus. During a second postdoctoral period, in the laboratory of Prof. Bert Sakmann at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, he began working on the primary somatosensory barrel cortex, investigating cortical circuits and sensory processing. Carl Petersen joined the Brain Mind Institute of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 2003, setting up the Laboratory of Sensory Processing to investigate the functional operation of neural circuits in awake mice during quantified behavior.Personal life
Carl Petersen is the son of Ole Holger Petersen, a professor of physiology at Cardiff University.
