Peter Mattjus
Born
Peter Mattjus

1970
Kronoby, Finland
OccupationSenior University Lecturer
AwardsPer Brahe Prize.[1], 2007
Academic background
Alma materÅbo Akademi University
ThesisInteraction of cholesterol with sphingomyelins and phosphatidylcholines in model membranes (1996)
Doctoral advisorProfessor J. Peter Slotte
Academic work
InstitutionsÅbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland and Hormel Institute - University of Minnesota, Austin, Minnesota.
WebsiteMattjus lab

Peter Mattjus is a Finnish biochemist currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry [2], at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Åbo Akademi University in Turku [3]. Since 2002 he is also a Docent in Lipid biochemistry.

Peter Mattjus´s research interests span the study of sphingolipids and lipid transfer proteins. His group is most known for the contributions to the biochemical and biological role of the glycolipid transfer protein, GLTP [4]

Education and early career edit

Mattjus obtained a Master of Science from Åbo Akademi University in 1993 with the major subject of biochemistry and minor subjects chemistry and biology. He received an Ph.D. in 1996 from Åbo Akademi University. Beginning in 1997, he pursued a Postdoctoral Fellowship under the mentorship of Rhoderick E. Brown at the Hormel Institute - University of Minnesota, Austin, Minnesota, until 2002. In 2002 he return to the Department of Biochemistry at Åbo Akademi University and established the Lipid transfer protein research group. From 2002 until 2007 he was employed as a Academy Research Fellow by the Academy of Finland. From August 1, 2007, Peter Mattjus works as a Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry.

Articles edit

Published work.

PubMed link