Simon Christ

Dr. Simon Christ is a Researcher at the Department of Computational Biology within the Institute of Cell Biology and Biophysics at Leibniz University Hannover's Faculty of Natural Sciences. His office is located in Building 4160, Room 110 at Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hannover. He can be contacted via phone (+49 511 762 16174) or email (christ@cell.uni-hannover.de).

Christ holds a Doctor rerum naturalium (PhD) from the University of Potsdam (2020) and a Master of Science from Humboldt University of Berlin (2014). His doctoral research focused on morphological transitions of vesicles under nonuniform conditions, while his master's thesis examined non-Markovian systems in statistical physics.

His research focuses on computational approaches to biological systems, including:

• Development of reproducible scientific workflows and open-source tools
• Agent-based simulations of biological processes
• Numerical solutions of differential equations in biological contexts
• Computational modeling of membrane dynamics and vesicle behavior
• Research software engineering practices and tools

He is proficient in multiple programming languages including Julia, C/C++, MATLAB, Mathematica, Python, and R, and is a certified instructor for The Carpentries.

Christ's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on research software engineering, computational biology methods, and biophysical modeling of cellular systems. His work frequently appears in computational biology, biophysics, and software engineering journals, with consistent contributions to open science practices and reproducible research methodologies.

No specific awards or student advising relationships are mentioned in the available documentation. His current work appears to be conducted within the computational biology research group at Leibniz University Hannover, with collaborations extending to other institutions including the University of Potsdam and Max Planck Institute.