Christoph Scheiermann studied biochemistry at the Freie University (FU) Berlin, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in vascular biology with Sussan Nourshargh from Imperial College London, UK, before joining the laboratory of the late Paul S. Frenette at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and later the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, USA, for postdoctoral work. He is the recipient of an Emmy-Noether award from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and a Starting and Consolidator grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He is currently associate professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, with an additional lab and affiliation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany.