Christoph Junghans is a German-born American computational physicist and academic, working in multiscale modeling and computational co-design.

[2] During his graduate studies he also worked at Forschungszentrum Jülich[3] and the IBM Systems & Technology Group.

Junghans joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2011 as a PostDoc of theoretical division and became a staff member with the applied computer science group in 2014.

Junghans is one of the authors of the VOTCA package and a contributor to more than a hundred open-sources projects[4] including Gromacs,[5] LAMMPS and Gentoo Linux.

[6] His most-cited publications concern multi-scale modeling and understanding of polymer aggregation through Monte Carlo as well as method development for molecular dynamics in general.