He is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
[2] Brunger held a NATO postdoctoral fellowship to work with Martin Karplus at Harvard University, where he subsequently became a research associate in the department of chemistry after a brief return to Germany.
[1] Brunger was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2005[1] and won the inaugural DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences in 2011.
[3] Brunger is known for developing a computer program called CNS used for solving structures based on X-ray diffraction or solution NMR data, which was first released in 1992.
[2] These programs make use of a method called simulated annealing in conjunction with molecular dynamics to refine protein structures.