Sigurd Braun studied biology at the University of Freiburg and obtained his doctorate in the laboratory of Stefan Jentsch at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich. Following postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco, he established his independent research group at the Biochemical Center of LMU Munich in 2011. Since w021, he has been at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen since 2021.
He is a Heisenberg Professor of Chromatin Biology at the Institute of Genetics at JLU Giessen. His research centers on the mechanism governing gene expression and genome stability in the cell, with particular emphasis on the spatial organization and regulation of active and inactive chromatin domains in the model organism Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast). His teaching covers molecular biology, genetics, and epigenetics. He has been involved in various national and international research networks and previously coordinated the EU-funded doctoral program (Innovative Training Network, ITN) “Cell2Cell” on cellular heterogeneity of chromatin.
Since 2024, he is vice president of the GfG.
