DR.

JAN BRAUNER
Address: xxx; Nationality: German
Email: xxx; Phone: xxx

EDUCATION
Medical doctorate, University Erlangen-Nuremberg 10/2018
• Final grade: ‘summa cum laude’ (‘with highest distinction’, best possible grade).
• Biomedical wet-lab research on neuronal electrophysiology.
• A medical doctorate in Germany requires additional research on top of graduating from medical school. It is comparable
to a shorter PhD.
Medical school, University Erlangen-Nuremberg and University Wuerzburg 10/2010 – 06/2017
• Final grade: 1.01 (best possible)
• Ranked 16 out of 5948 German medical students in standardized National Medical Licensing Exam.
• Elective placements (15 months total) in all fields of clinical medicine, in Germany, Israel and Tanzania.
• Additional mathematical courses: grade average 1.11, 22.5 ETCS. Linear algebra 1, calculus 1, mathematics for
physicists 2
‘Abitur’ (A-levels), Gymnasium Eckental 09/2001 – 07/2009
• Final grade: 1.02 (best possible). Top of class of 129 students. Skipped 10th grade.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Elective placements (15 months total) and nursing internships (3 months total):
• In all fields of medicine 2010 – 2017
• In Germany, Israel and Tanzania.
• Incl. 4 months in Tropical Medicine and Global Health.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’ (German Academic Scholarship Foundation):
• Awarded to about 0.5% of German university students (~11,000 fellows; >2,000,000 students).
• The Studienstiftung supports "young people who, on account of their exceptional academic or artistic talents and their
personalities, can be expected to make an outstanding contribution to society as a whole."
‘Max-Weber-Programm’ (Federal Bavarian Scholarship):
• Awarded to about 0.6% of Bavarian high school graduates (200 places per year; ~35,000 graduates).
• “The Max Weber-Program is aimed at highly-gifted students at universities in Bavaria.”
German National Mathematics Competition:
• top 50 in my year in Germany in 2007, 2008, 2009.
‘Leonardo-Kolleg’ (top 5% of students at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CAREER - While studying at medical school

• 8 peer-reviewed publications, 3 first authorships, >150 citations3. Presentations at several international conferences.
Full details in appendix.
• Academic referee for the journal BMC Bioinformatics.
• Attracted €49,000 in third-party funding. Stipends for living expenses (€23,000), grants for research activities
(€26,000):
• Graduate research training group ‘GK 1660: Key signals of adaptive immunity’ of the German Research
Foundation (2012-14): €43,500
• Intramural graduate scholarship of the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) of the University
Clinic Erlangen (2015-16): €5,500

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Range: 1.0 – 5.0
2
Range: 1.0 – 6.0
3
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tNZUnjcAAAAJ&hl=de
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Freelance researcher, Centre for Effective Altruism, Oxford 11/2017 – 11/2018
• Macro-strategy research on global priorities. How should altruists with a very long-term perspective allocate resources?
• The article (here) was featured in the “Effective Altruism Newsletter”, which has over 50,000 readers.

Research assistant, Medical Mission Institute Wuerzburg, Tropical Medicine and Global Health 09/2016 – 12/2017
• I contributed to various stages of clinical trials on HIV drug resistance in Mwanza, Tanzania; incl. study design and
conduct, data management (1000 patients).

Research assistant, University Clinic Erlangen, Department for Rheumatology and Immunology 04/2013 – 08/2016
• Biomedical wet-lab research in immunology.
• I developed and produced various monoclonal antibodies and evaluated their influence on phagocytosis and
inflammation in ex vivo human blood assays.

MD thesis work, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology 10/2011 – 03/2013

Research assistant, University Clinic Erlangen, Department of Psychiatry 12/2010 – 06/2014

• Bioinformatics research. I designed and evaluated algorithms for automated analysis of various kinds of data: gel
electrophoresis images, fluorescence microscopy movies, and time traces of neuronal potentials. I also developed a
mathematical model of neuronal vesicle population dynamics.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Member and, from 2014 on, leader of ‘AG Medizin und Menschenrechte’ (medical refugee help group) 10/2010 – 08/2016
• As one of the group leaders, I managed about 50 active group members. During my time, the number of active
members and projects grew 10-fold, and the group won several awards with several thousand euros prize money.
• Activities: Helping people without health insurance to get medical treatment by collaborating with a network of
voluntary physicians, political advocacy, organizing translators, helping with bureaucracy, language lessons, child care.

TEACHING - I prepared and delivered mathematics lectures in front of 150 first year science students (mathematics for
scientists).
COMPUTER SKILLS - Programming (Python, Matlab), data management (Access, Excel, SPSS)
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SKILLS - Cell culture, protein biochemistry, electrophysiology, flow cytometry, study design
LANGUAGES - German (native), English (fluent), French, Spanish (intermediate), Russian (basic)
Appendix: Publications and conference contributions

Publications:
Rudovick L*, Brauner JM*, Englert J, Seemann C, Plugaru K, Kidenya BR, Kalluvya SE, Scheller C, Kasang C.
Prevalence of pre-treatment HIV drug resistance in Mwanza, Tanzania. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2018 Oct 27. 73
(12), 3476-3481

Muñoz LE, Bilyy R, Biermann MH, Kienhöfer D, Maueröder C, Hahn J, Brauner JM, Weidner D, Chen J, Scharin-
Mehlmann M, Janko C, Friedrich RP, Mielenz D, Dumych T, Lootsik MD, Schauer C, Schett G, Hoffmann M, Zhao Y,
Herrmann M.
Nanoparticles size-dependently initiate self-limiting NETosis-driven inflammation. PNAS 2016 Oct 4;113(40):E5856-
E5865.

Yang H, Biermann MH, Brauner JM, Liu Y, Zhao Y, Herrmann M.

New Insights into Neutrophil Extracellular Traps: Mechanisms of Formation and Role in Inflammation. Front
Immunol. 2016 Aug 12;7:302

Röther M, Brauner JM, Ebert K, Welzel O, Jung J, Bauereiss A, Kornhuber J, Groemer TW.
Dynamic properties of the alkaline vesicle population at hippocampal synapses. PLoS One. 2014 Jul 31;9(7):e102723

Brauner JM*, Groemer TW*, Stroebel A, Grosse-Holz S, Oberstein T, Wiltfang J, Kornhuber J, Maler JM.
Spot quantification in two dimensional gel electrophoresis image analysis: comparison of different approaches and
presentation of a novel compound fitting algorithm. BMC Bioinformatics. 2014 Jun 11;15:181.

Brauner JM, Hessler S, Groemer TW, Alzheimer C, Huth T.

Risperidone inhibits voltage-gated sodium channels. Eur J Pharmacol. 2014 Apr 5;728:100-6.

Jung J, Loy K, Schilling EM, Röther M, Brauner JM, Huth T, Schlötzer-Schrehardt U, Alzheimer C, Kornhuber J, Welzel
O, Groemer TW.
The antidepressant fluoxetine mobilizes vesicles to the recycling pool of rat hippocampal synapses during high
activity. Mol Neurobiol. 2014 Apr;49(2):916-30.

Biermann M, Maueröder C, Brauner JM, Chaurio R, Janko C, Herrmann M, Muñoz LE.

Surface code--biophysical signals for apoptotic cell clearance. Phys Biol. 2013 Dec;10(6):065007.

Brauner JM*, Grosse-Holz F*, Schett G, Herrmann M, Muñoz LE.

No littering: the clearance of dead cells and leaking cellular contents and possible pathological complications. OA
Arthritis 2013 Jun 01;1(2):12.

Conferences:
Invited presentation and research poster, Gordon Research Seminar and Conference: Apoptotic Cell Recognition &
Clearance. Biddeford, USA, 2015

Research Poster, 4th international symposium: Regulators of adaptive immunity. Erlangen, Germany, 2013

Research Poster, 8th FENS Forum of Neuroscience. Barcelona, Spain, 2012