After graduating from Berlin in 2001, Christiane undertook a doctoral thesis on corneal innervation in dogs and cats. From 2003-2005 Christiane worked as postdoc on in vivo confocal microscopy of the cornea at the University in Munich in cooperation with a Jens Fritsche’s ophthalmology referral centre in Munich, where she worked as clinician till 2007, followed by a 12 month COPLOW ocular pathology fellowship at Wisconsin University. Christiane finished her residency program at the Animal Health Trust, UK and became a board certified ECVO diplomat in 2014. She then was awarded a PhD (2020) working on canine corneal stem stems at the Animal Health Trust (Dr. D. Guest) and Prof. J. Daniels, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London. From 2019-2026 she was working as a senior lecturer in ophthalmology at the Royal Veterinary College, University London. She is working part-time in a private specialist referral centre in UK and is director of CKVeterinarySolutions ltd.