He is mainly working on project Slick in close cooperation with Typesafe and is also involved in the development of Scala 2.10's reflection and macros. His main focus is the new macro-based "direct embedding" of queries into Scala. Earlier, Christopher developed "Scala Integrated Query", a research prototype, which was presented during Scala Days 2011 at Stanford. In the past, he worked for AstraZeneca and as an independent, web-related software developer with Python. Christopher enjoys traveling, skiing, sailing and Scouting.