After graduating with a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Munich, Christine Nickl-Weller joined the Munich-based architectural practice Nickl & Partner in 1989 and became Chief Executive Officer of the company in 2008. She designs and develops buildings for healthcare, research and education, as well as projects in housing and urban development in Germany and abroad, and has received numerous national and international awards.

In 2004, she was appointed Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and held the only university chair for the design of hospitals and healthcare buildings in Germany until 2018. The chair covers a broad range of research topics related to healthcare architecture and urbanism, including healing architecture, energy efficiency in healthcare buildings, healthy urban planning and housing for older people.

Christine Nickl-Weller is the founder of the Hans and Christine Nickl Foundation. She also initiated the biannual Health Care of the Future Symposia, which have been held in Berlin since 2006, as well as the Healing Architecture conferences (Berlin, 2011; St Petersburg, 2013; Dubai, 2015), supported by the Federal Ministry of Health. She is the author and editor of numerous articles and books, most recently Healing Architecture (2013, with Hans Nickl), Hospital Architecture (2013, edited with Hans Nickl), Health Care of the Future 1–6 – Healing Architecture & Communication (2015, edited with S. Matthys and T. Eichenauer), and Healing Architecture 2004–2017. She gives lectures in Germany and abroad.