Christine Bichsel is Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Fribourg. Her interest and expertise in thinking through infrastructure stems from investigation of the political geography and environmental history of irrigation in Central Asia. Recently, her research has taken a new direction and focuses on the political geography of spacefaring. She is the principal investigator for the project Science, Fiction and Power: Rethinking Planetarity through Post-Earth Science Fiction from China (2020–21), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Christine is the author of Conflict Transformation in Central Asia: Irrigation Disputes in the Ferghana Valley (Routledge, 2009). Other work has been published in journals such as Water Alternatives, Central Asian Survey, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Water History and Geography, Environment, Sustainability.