Christoph Becker is a Professor of Information and Director of the Digital Curation Institute at the University of Toronto.

He returned to Vienna to lead a research program on scalable decision support for digital preservation as part of the large-scale EC-funded project SCAPE: Scalable Preservation Environments, which he co-developed with an international consortium of universities, memory organizations, industrial research and commercial partners.

Since 2014, he has served as the Director of the Digital Curation Institute, where he leads interdisciplinary research in digital curation along with appointed fellows, graduate students, faculty, researchers and industry partners.

His book Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability appears at MIT Press from June 2023.

[2][3] Becker is an associate editor of the recently launched ACM Journal of Responsible Computing, a member of the program committees of ICSE, CHASE, ICT4S, Computing within Limits, and EASE, and a co-founder of TechOtherwise.