Christoph Federrath is a professor, faculty member, and associate director at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He previously was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Stromlo Fellow, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Monash Centre for Astrophysics in Melbourne, the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, and the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Heidelberg. He studied physics at the University of Wuerzburg from 2001 to 2007 and received a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Heidelberg in 2010.