brauns@mpi-cbg.de

Max Planck Institute of Molecular
Cell Biology and Genetics
- PKS (MPI) -

Pfotenhauerstr. 108
01307 Dresden
Germany

Fridtjof Brauns

Group Leader

Scientific Career

since 2025

Research Group Leader at MPI-CBG and MPI-PKS

2021 – 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow, KITP, UC Santa Barbara. Work on cell and tissue mechanics during morphogenesis (with Boris Shraiman) and on non-reciprocal pattern formation (with Cristina Marchetti). Collaborations with Andreas Bausch (TU Munich), Zvonimir Dogic (UCSB), Adrienne Roeder (Cornell), Sebastian Streichan (UCSB), Eric Wieschaus (Princeton)

2015 – 2021

PhD, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.
Thesis: Principles and theory of intracellular pattern formation

2010 – 2015

BSci (Physics) and MSci (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich