Jana Braunger

I am a PhD student in the Velten group at Heidelberg University, developing probabilistic models to study the functional consequences of genetic perturbations in single-cell CRISPR screens. Before starting my PhD, I studied Molecular Biotechnology at Heidelberg University (BSc) and Biomathematics at the University of Greifswald (MSc). During my master’s thesis with Prof. Caroline Uhler at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston, I worked on computational approaches linking transcriptional changes to chromatin reorganization during aging. You can read more about the path that led me to computational biology in an interview I gave for the Women in Research series on the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting blog, following my participation in the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 2026.