Christoph Scheiermann studied biochemistry at the Freie University Berlin, Germany. After having obtained his PhD at Imperial College London in 2008 in the group of Sussan Nourshargh he went to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York for postdoctoral work in the lab of Paul Frenette. In 2013 he started his own lab at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and in 2018 moved to the University of Geneva to take up an associate professorship. The lab received several early career awards such as the Emmy-Noether Grant (Germany) and the ERC starting grant.