Jeanette Süss was a researcher in the Research Unit of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR) in 2018-19, and also has been associated with Freie Universität Berlin, the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
She obtained a bachelor's degree in political science and French Romance studies from the Universität Tübingen and Aix-Marseille Université, and a master of arts from Sciences Po Paris / FU Berlin, with her master's thesis focusing on the interaction between EU Member States and EU institutions with individual Maghreb states over migration policy.