Christoph Federrath's research focuses on the theoretical and numerical modeling of star formation in turbulent molecular clouds. In particular, he is interested in comparing numerical experiments to analytic theories of star formation and to observations in galactic clouds. Hydrodynamical models including turbulence, self-gravity, magnetic fields, ambipolar diffusion, chemistry, radiation transport and stellar feedback are used to accomplish quantitative comparisons. A long-term goal of his research is to establish a model that combines all the necessary physics and chemistry to enable self-consistent comparisons with observations and analytic models of star formation.