现任南方科技大学创新创意设计学院教授，建筑设计研究者、教育者，研究领域包括结构设计、跨学科合作设计以及数字支持设计。曾任西交利物浦大学建筑系高级副教授，深圳大学建筑与城市规划学院副教授和国立成功大学访问助理教授。她在卡塞尔大学获得硕士学位，在香港大学获得硕士及博士学位。在近期工作中，何教授专注于中国本土环境中，科学家与设计师在跨学科合作设计过程中所涉及到的结构和材料方面的研究。她目前为亚洲计算机辅助建筑设计研究协会（CAADRIA）主席、美国控制论学会（ASC）成员以及 the Journal of Architectural Computing（IJAC）编委会成员，并担任多个期刊和会议的同行评审委员会成员。撰写了60多篇同行评审的学术出版物，大部分是第一作者，16篇为被索引的期刊文章和书籍章节。近期合编了斯普林格设计研究基础系列丛书之一：《设计控制论：驾驭新事物》。
发表文章：
Christiane M. Herr (PI) with Architectural Engineering students Ziyue Gao, Yiling Ji, Elizaveta Blokhina, Chao Tang, and Yining Jiang (2021). Designing biodiverse high-rise facade microbiomes for healthy urban environments, 2021 CTBUH Student Research Competition First Prize.
Christiane M. Herr and Yawen Duan (2020). Designing Facade Microbiomes. Imaginable Futures: Design Thinking, and the Scientific Method, Proceedings of the 54th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Auckland, New Zealand, 365-374.
Christiane M. Herr (2020). Design cybernetics in support of cross-disciplinary collaboration: Educating the next generation of Chinese architects and structural engineers, Kybernetes, 49(8): 2109-2124. DOI: 10.1108/K-07-2019-0521.
Thomas Fischer and Christiane M. Herr (eds.): Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New. Springer, Cham, 2019. ISBN: 978-3-030-18557-2.
Christiane M. Herr (2019). The art of collaborative structural design: Structural art in the age of cross-disciplinary collaboration, Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the International Association for Spatial and Shell Structures (IASS), International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Barcelona, 7-10 October 2019, 305-311.
Christiane M. Herr and Thomas Fischer (2018). BIM adoption across the Chinese AEC industries: An extended BIM adoption model, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering 6(2), 173-178. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcde.2018.06.001.
Christiane M. Herr (2016). Between contemporary and traditional： The ongoing search for Chinese architectural identity. In: M. Keane ed., Handbook of Cultural Industries in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, 452-467. ISBN: 978-1-78254-985-7.
