Christopher Fichtlscherer is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy. His research focuses on vulnerabilities in critical nuclear infrastructure, nuclear disarmament verification technologies, risks of proliferation, radiation transport as well as detector modelling. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from RWTH Aachen University (Germany), an M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Hamburg, and B.S. degrees in Physics and Mathematics from TU Darmstadt.