Joakim Norbeck, born 1965, is a scientist in molecular biotechnology at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. from Gothenburg University in 1996 on a thesis entitled "Protein expression of yeast during growth under osmotic stress",.[1] He identified the genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding glycerol-3-phosphatase (GPP1 and GPP2), as well as the genes encoding dihydroxyacetone kinase (DAK1 and DAK2) in the same organism.