Christoph Krafft studied physics at the University Oldenburg (Germany) and received his PhD in biophysics from the Humboldt University Berlin in 1998 (Germany). He went for postgraduate studies at the University of Missouri Kansas City (USA) and University Trieste (Itlay). He led the research group “Molecular Endospectroscopy” at the Dresden University of Technology (Germany), where he finished his habilitation. Since 2008, he has led a research group at Leibniz IPHT in Jena. His research is focused on Raman- and infrared-based studies of biomolecules, tissues, and cells for bioanalytical and medical diagnostic applications.