Alexander Brehm studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Tübingen and the University of Edinburgh. He completed his doctorate at EMBL Heidelberg in the laboratory of Hans Schöler, where he investigated the pluripotency factor Oct4. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge in the group of Tony Kouzarides, he began working on chromatin-regulating enzymes. He continued this research as a junior group leader in the Department of Molecular Biology led by Peter Becker, LMU Munich, before being appointed Professor at Philipps University of Marburg in 2006.
He is Managing Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Tumor Research (IMT) in Marburg. His research focuses on epigenetic gene regulation and its roles in development and disease, particularly chromatin-modifying enzymes studied using biochemical and molecular approaches in Drosophila.
