Stefanie Schüler-Springorum was born and educated in Germany. She studied History, Ethnology and Political Sciences at the universities of Göttingen and Barcelona and received her PhD from the Ruhr-University Bochum, which awarded her with the university’s dissertation prize in 1993. In 1994/95 she worked for the Foundation Topography of Terror, curating an exhibition on “Jewish History in Berlin”, which opened on May 8^th 1995 at the Neue Synagoge in Berlin. Between 1995 and 2001 she received various grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to pursue research projects on Jewish Leftist Youth movements and on the history of the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War. From 2001 to 2011 she served as Director of the Institute for German-Jewish History in Hamburg and between 2009 – 2019 as the head of the German branch of the Leo Baeck Institute. In 2011, she was appointed Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin. In addition, in 2012 she co-founded and -directed the Selma-Stern-Center for Jewish Studies; she served as PI at the Max Planck International Research School on Moral Economies in Modern Societies between 2013 and 2023 and since 2020 is the Director of the Berlin branch of the Center for Research on Social Cohesion.

Professor Schüler-Springorum has served on the Academic Boards of many national and international institutions, among others EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure), GHI Washington, Jewish Museum Berlin, Zentrum Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Simon Dubnow Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Leipzig, Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten,all Berlin.