Christopher has been a visiting student at the Complexity Science Hub since April 2025.

His research interests lie in data-driven approaches to studying innovation processes and the evolution of scientific collaboration. Within the Transforming Economies research group, he is conducting his master’s thesis project, which focuses on developing an AI agent for processing historical patent data to study collaboration and invention over centuries.

Christopher holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Vienna and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Innovation Sciences at Utrecht University. He has gained research and teaching experience at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development.

Outside of academia, he is co-founder of Cyan Cycle, a government-funded startup developing a carbon capture technology that recycles CO₂ into biomass. He is actively involved in the Austrian startup ecosystem and has participated in programs such as the Sustainability Challenge, AWS and accent incubation programmes, and the Bio-based Innovation Student Challenge Europe (BISC-E).