[1] Educated in Germany, Scotland, and England, she works in England as a professor of design at the Open University.
[2] Eckert was a student of mathematics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, and a student of philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy, a small Jesuit school in Munich.
[2] After earning a bachelor's degree from the Munich School of Philosophy,[1] and a master's degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland,[2] in 1990,[3] she completed a PhD in 1997 at the Open University.
[2] Her dissertation, Intelligent support for knitwear design, was jointly supervised by Helmut Bez, Jeff Johnson, and Nigel Cross.
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