Robert Braun has been working as a Senior Researcher at IHS since 2016 and is part of the research group Social Sustainable Transformation. He is also Associate Professor at Masaryk University, in Brno and Senior Research Fellow at East China Normal University, in Shanghai. He completed his PhD (2002) in Philosophy and his Habilitation in Sociology (2021).

His research focus are the politics of technology transformations, the Anthropocene and quantum social theory; he works with qualitative and participatory methods, focusing on studying ethnomethods, reflexive inquiry, action and engaged research. He has published in leading journals, including Science, Journal of Responsible Innovation, Mobilities, Applied Mobilities. His latest book, Post-Automobility Futures (with Richard Randell), was published in 2022. He currently works on a new book project: The World of Anthropos: The Constitution and Institution of the Anthropic Condition.