Christian Schulz is a Full Professor of European Sustainable Spatial Development and Analysis at the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ (since 2006). He is also Head of the .

He is an economic geographer who specialised on issues around environmental sustainability already in the 1990s. His current research foci are in the fields of socio-ecological transitions and the role of sufficiency-oriented practices. He recently co-edited an Open-Access anthology on post-growth geographies (, transcript) and co-authored a textbook (in German) on the economic geographies of sustainability (, UTB).

Christian mainly teaches in the Master in Geography and Spatial Planning () as well as in the Formation Continue en Aménagement du Territoire () and the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences (DSHSS).

Christian Schulz is a member of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association ().

Before joining the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ, he worked at Saarland ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity (Germany), ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Metz (today: ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Lorraine, France), ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Cologne, ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Duisburg/Essen, and ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Frankfurt/Main (all Germany).
He held visiting professorships at Simon Fraser ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity (Canada), Sun Yat-sen ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity Guangzhou (China), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) and ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Hull (UK).

Christian Schulz studied geography in Saarbrücken (Germany), Québec (Canada) and Metz (France). After his PhD (1997, Saarland ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity) he moved to the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Cologne (Germany) where he finished his habilitation thesis in 2004, dealing with environmental producer services and knowledge transfer in the manufacturing sector.