Christian is a lifelong learner and has conducted research in a variety of fields by simply volunteering on large projects. As a Solar System Ambassador volunteer he gives aviation, earth and space science presentations.

He has presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics on the effect of geomagnetic storms, coronal mass ejections and galactic cosmic rays on spacecraft.

Christian is an airline captain with over 5,000 hours of flight time, an airline pilot instructor, hiring manager and a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Human Intervention Motivational Study Mentor.

At American Military University, he conducted photometric research discovering new supernovae and completed a graduate thesis entitled: Alternative Models of Gravitation. He improved the algorithm and machine learning analytics of NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars through the NASA/JPL AI4 Mars Citizen Science program.

Christian eliminated noise interference at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) from data collected by Caltech and MIT interferometers through the LIGO Citizen Science Project.

Christian improved artificial intelligence detection using Sentinel-2 satellite land use data through the European Space Agency (ESA/EU) Earth Observation Citizen Science Programme.

He is enthusiastic in sharing science topics and is grateful to have many oppurtunities to teach.