Christiane is a tenured professor at the School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. Christiane obtained a Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of Kassel, her MArch and PhD degrees from The University of Hong Kong, and a Dr.-Ing. degree from the University of Kassel. She founded the Future Ecologies Research Group to examine intersections of ecology and technology in building facades in a cross-disciplinary approach, emphasizing the local context of China. Christiane is Past President of CAADRIA as well as Vice-Chair of CAADFutures and has co-edited the book “Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New” for the Springer Design Research Foundations Series.