Juergen Braunstein is currently Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business where he leads the Geofinance Unit at ISSET. He is also affiliated with the Harvard Center for European Studies and lectures at the Harvard DCE Sustainability Program. Prior to this he was a fellow and post-doctoral researcher Harvard's Geopolitics of Energy Project.

He has been actively involved in the G20 Think20 task force during the presidencies of Indonesia (2022), Italy (2021), and Saudi Arabia (2020), focusing on financing in a decarbonizing context. Previously, he coordinated the urban finance workstream for the New Climate Economy (NCE) at the London School of Economics (LSE) Cities research center. He is the author of Capital Choices: Sectoral Politics and the Variation of Sovereign Wealth (2019), published by Michigan University Press. In 2022, a revised edition of his book received the ASCINA Principal Investigator Award. In 2023 his research project on 'Energy Finance Transitions' (ENFIN) was awarded with an ERC Starting Grant from the European Commission.

Beyond his peer reviewed publications, he has published numerous articles in media outlets, such as the Financial Times, Forbes, Project Syndicate, and VoxEU. He holds a PhD in comparative and international political economy, and a master of research in political science from the London School of Economics and Political Science.