Christiane is a big fan of information retrieval and machine learning technologies and loves figuring out how to apply them in scalable applications to make a difference for real world problems. She joined eBay Kleinanzeigen as a Software developer in January 2016 after having worked at Unister R&D in Leipzig for 5 years. In her previous academic life, she studied Intelligent Systems at the University of Applied Sciences in Brandenburg and obtained a PhD from Bournemouth University (UK) for her work on predictive modelling and classifier combination.