Elena Graf holds a Master’s degree in Slavic Studies (with special focus on East Slavic languages, supplemented by qualifications in Polish and Czech) from the Humboldt-University of Berlin as well as a Doctorate to PhD in Slavic Linguistics from the Humboldt-University of Berlin, where she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Slavic Studies. Since many years she has been working as a research assistant to the chair of Slavic linguistics at the University of Munich and as an interim professor at the University of Hamburg (2012), the University of Innsbruck (2015), the University of Halle-Wittenberg (2020-2021) and the University of Munich (2021/2022-2022/2023).