Christoph Steinbeck (born 1966 in Neuwied[3]) is a German chemist and has a professorship for analytical chemistry, cheminformatics and chemometrics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Thuringia.

[4][5] Steinbeck received his PhD from the University of Bonn[6] in 1995 for work on LUCY, a software program for structural elucidation from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) correlation experiments.

He initiated JChemPaint,[12] was founder of the Chemistry Development Kit,[13][14] and is responsible for leading the team working on Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI).

[15][16][17][18] He headed the Cheminformatics and Metabolomics group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom from 2008 to 2016.

Since 2020, Steinbeck is leading the German National Research Data Infrastructure for Chemistry (NFDI4Chem)[19] and in August 2022, he became vice President for digitalisation of the Friedrich Schiller University.