Christian is associate professor of sociology interested in health, politics and everyday life practices. Empirically, he focuses on cases like stress, time-scarcity, bodily (over)activity, microbes, sadness, (over)weight, mobile phone technology or aircraft noise. He is also interested in the way our research in/excludes citizens and affects (health) practices. Methodologically, Christian lean towards qualitative methods and has experience with a wide range of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Conceptually, he aims to further our understanding of time and to advance medicalization theory.

Christian leads a group of researchers called the SocioHealth team and he is a member of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) – AISSR – University of Amsterdam (uva.nl) Sarphati Amsterdam, Personal Microbiome Health, METAHEALTH, CO-CREATE, Urban Mental Health, and the works council of his Faculty.