Christian Schulz is a Full Professor of European Sustainable Spatial Development and Analysis at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg (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 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg, he worked at Saarland 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ (Germany), 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Metz (today: 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Lorraine, France), 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Cologne, 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Duisburg/Essen, and 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Frankfurt/Main (all Germany).
He held visiting professorships at Simon Fraser 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ (Canada), Sun Yat-sen 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ Guangzhou (China), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) and 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Hull (UK).

Christian Schulz studied geography in Saarbrücken (Germany), Québec (Canada) and Metz (France). After his PhD (1997, Saarland 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½) he moved to the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Cologne (Germany) where he finished his habilitation thesis in 2004, dealing with environmental producer services and knowledge transfer in the manufacturing sector.