Christian is a video coding engineer at Bitmovin working on next generation video coding technologies in the most recent video coding standards, such as HEVC and AV1. After his study of computer engineering at RWTH University Aachen, he completed his doctoral degree (PhD) at the Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for Communication Technologies) in Aachen. With his detailed experience in video coding, he is developing video coding technologies for the future of video coding. Christian participates in the standardization activities of the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) as well as the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).