Christoph Winkler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He studied Biology at the LMU Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. He did his PhD with Prof Manfred Schartl at the University of Würzburg, Germany. After this, he was a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. He completed his Habilitation in Developmental Biology at the University of Würzburg in 2005 and joined NUS in 2007, where he has been serving the Department of Biological Sciences as Deputy Head, Chair of the Faculty Teaching Committee and Graduate Program. He was awarded the NUS Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award in 2011 and was a Presidential Visiting Professor at the University of Wuerzburg in 2015. Over the past 30 years, his research has been focusing on medaka and zebrafish models to study embryogenesis, larval development, and to model human bone and neurodegenerative diseases. His research findings have been published in high-impact journals, including Nature, Nature Communications, PNAS, Current Biology, Development, and others. Currently, Christoph Winkler serves as the Scientific Director of AquaPolis, a national initiative aimed at advancing aquaculture research and promoting sustainable fish farming practices in Singapore.