01Company
Polycam
Cofounder and CEO of a cross-platform reality-capture company making professional 3D documentation, measurement, and creation accessible to anyone.
Explore Polycam01Founder / Physicist / Builder
I build tools for seeing what's already there.
I'm Christopher Heinrich — a physicist by training and a product builder by practice. I co-founded Polycam to make professional 3D capture effortless and accessible.
Christopher HeinrichLos Angeles, CA
02Through line
From abstract systems to useful ones.
Before building products, I studied symmetry-enriched topological phases: how the deepest structure of matter shows up at its edges.
Today, I work on a different kind of boundary — the one between the physical and digital worlds. Across both, the instinct is the same: make the invisible legible.
03Selected work
A few places I've put that instinct to work.
02Physics
Edge theories
Doctoral work at the University of Chicago on symmetry-enriched topological phases, exactly solvable models, and the physics revealed at their edges.
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Deep CMB
Research exploring how neural networks can optimally remove gravitational-lensing noise from maps of the cosmic microwave background.
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Selected inquiry