Christian Majenz obtained his master's degree in physics from the University of Freiburg, supervised by David Gross. He obtained his PhD from the University of Copenhagen under the supervision of Matthias Christandl, spending time at Caltech along the way. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the QuSoft Center and CWI in Amsterdam. His main research interests are quantum aspects of cryptography and representation-theoretic aspects of quantum theory.