Following completion of her Bachelor of Science in Biological Science, Christin obtained her Master of Science in 2013 in Molecular Medicine from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, majoring in pharmacology and pathology. During her Master Thesis, she investigated the coupling of brain stimulation reward, adult neurogenesis and learning in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, Germany.

Christin joined the Schizophrenia Research Laboratory as a visiting researcher in 2014 and relocated to Australia in 2015 to start her PhD. She investigates age-related changes of neurogenesis and associated molecular factors in healthy humans across the entire lifespan. Christin also examines whether there are differences in neurogenesis and associated molecular factors in the brains of healthy adults compared to patients with schizophrenia. Her research will be important to advance our understanding of the underlying molecular causes of this disease and may help to explain some of the symptoms, such as working memory deficits.