Claudia Westermann is an artist researcher and licensed architect. She has held faculty positions at Vienna University of Technology in Austria and Xi'an-Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China, and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Practice and Co-director of Graduate Research in the School of Design and the Built Environment.

Claudia Westermann holds master's-level degrees in art and architecture. Her PhD was supervised by the educational reformer and pioneer in telematic arts, Prof. Roy Ascott. Claudia Westermann is licensed through the German Chamber of Architects. She is Vice President of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC), an active member of the Systemic Design Association, and co-editor of Technoetic Arts, a journal that has fostered transdisciplinary and creative-practice-based research for more than two decades. Claudia Westermann's projects have been widely exhibited and presented, including at the Venice Biennale, the Moscow International Film Festival, ISEA Symposium for the Electronic Arts, and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany. She has received awards for her practice and teaching, including two provincial and three national awards for studio teaching, as well as a county-level award for a Philosophy of Art module. For her visionary engagement fostering systemic research and practice through education, she received the Margaret Mead Prize from the American Society for Cybernetics in 2024.