Christina Berndt was born in 1969, studied biochemistry and obtained her doctorate at the German Cancer Reserach Institue in Heidelberg.
As a science jounalist she reports on medicine and research for Spiegel, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa – the German Press Agency), the Süddeutsche Rundfunk broadcasting station and Süddeutsche Zeitung, where she has been working as editor since 2000.
She was awarded the European Science Writers Junior Award in 2000.