Christian joined FEPS in August 2022. He initially severed as Head of Office of the FEPS President before assuming his current role as Head of Democracy and Participation Programmes.

Before joining FEPS, Christian worked as a Policy Analyst at the European Parliamentary Research Service of the European Parliament and as a Science Officer at the COST Association – European Cooperation in Science and Technology. He obtained a PhD from the Centre for European and International Studies at the University of Portsmouth (UK) and was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany).

Christian has published on several issues pertaining to political parties in European integration, EU policy-making, and broader questions of European democracy. His book (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) on Transnational Socialist Party Networks in the 1970s demonstrates that western European socialist and social democratic parties’ transnational cooperation significantly influenced politics and policy making in what was the European Communities.