Christian earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 2019 and diploma in 2013. Since 2012 he had been actively involved in developing, building and launching hybrid sounding rockets. From 2014 to 2018, he has been working at the German Aerospace Center on system analysis of rocket vehicles with a special focus on hybrid rocket systems, sounding rockets, launch vehicles and lunar landers. In 2018, he co-founded HyImpulse and embraces the role of the CEO leading the start-up to develop a smallsat launch vehicle and get into space!