Christoph Hupfer holds a professorship in traffic engineering and transportation planning at the Hochschule Karlsruhe – University of Applied Sciences. He did his PhD at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany about “Video based Traffic Safety Analysis of Pedestrian Crossings at Major Urban Roads”. After five years as a consultant for different counties, municipalities and companies in mobility and transport, he was hired for a professorship in traffic engineering and transportation planning at the faculty of architecture and civil engineering at the Hochschule Karlsruhe in 2001.

In 2012 he was elected as founding dean for the Faculty for Information Management and Media. At the same time, he founded the transportation management bachelor program, followed by a transportation management master program in 2015 under his leading ship.

In addition, he works as a senior expert in traffic, transport and mobility for municipalities, state administrations and companies.

Since 2021 he is the founding head of the state institute on sustainable mobility (“Baden-Württemberg Institut für Nachhaltige Mobilität”), a multidisciplinary coalition of applied research located at different universities in the state of Baden-Württemberg. He is successful in transformation related research focusing on tools in decision making for deciders in administration and politician as well as in participation processes, sustainable road infrastructure design, traffic safety and sustainable urban mobility in general.