Christiaan completed a Master's degree at the University of Maine in hydrogeology. His work resulted in a publication looking at water-gas interaction in a peatland system. Currently, Christiaan is employed as a Logging While Drilling (LWD) specialist in the Cleveland-Pittsburg-Columbus region. His job involves interpreting real-time data from a large variety of measurements such as a natural gamma ray, resistivity, and neutron porosity.