Christoph Lehner (born in 1962) obtained a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science in 1997 at Stanford University. He has worked as an assistant professor for the University of Kentucky and as a scientific editor for the Einstein Papers Project at Boston University and the California Institute of Technology. Since 2004 he has been a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where he has coordinated the project History and Foundations of Quantum Physics since 2006.