Christiane graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover in 1997. She did her doctoral thesis at the University of Munich, where she had a faculty position for two years. She then did her internship and residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine at the -University of Munich and the University of Georgia, USA. Since 2005 she is a senior clinician at the Tierklinik Hofheim, Germany and is head of the internal medicine service there.
Christiane is a Diplomate of ECVIM and a German specialist of small animal internal medicine.