Carsten Wagner

Carsten Wagner

Carsten A. Wagner studied medicine at the University of Tubingen (Germany) where he started to work with A. Busch and F. Lang on mechanisms of epithelial transport with a particular interest in renal phosphate and amino acid transport. After completing his medical dissertation, he trained further as postdoctoral fellow with G. Giebisch and J. Geibel at Yale University studying renal acid-base physiology.

At the University of Zurich (Switzerland) he worked with H. Murer, received his Habilitation, and is now a professor of Physiology with his main research interests in the field of acid-base and phosphate homeostasis in health and disease. He is a co-leader of the Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort studying the impact of genetics, diet, and other factors on stone disease. Since 2025, he is also the editor of Pflügers Archiv, the oldest publishing journal in Physiology. He published more than 300 papers and book chapters and has received national and international awards for his work.