Maria Kasper PhD

Maria Kasper is Associate Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Salzburg, Austria, in human genetics and molecular tumor biology. In 2013, after a 6-year postdoctoral training in skin biology at the Karolinska Institute, she established her own lab focusing on skin stem cell dynamics by combining multicolor lineage tracing in mice with single-cell RNA sequencing. She has contributed significant work in the fields of skin biology and single-cell transcriptomics and received national and international recognitions such as the Swedish Cancer Society Young Investigator Award, Ragnar Soederberg Fellow in Medicine, and the LEO Foundation Gold Award.