Professor Dr. Franziska Süß studied psycholinguistics, psychology, and special needs education at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, graduating in 2006. She earned her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at Leipzig University and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Her academic career includes a doctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute, leadership of a BMBF-funded research project on large-scale language development assessment at Goethe University Frankfurt, and a research position at the Chair of Neurocognitive Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2016, Dr. Süß has been Professor of Psychology and Education at FHM Bamberg (Fachhochschule des Mittelstands), where she teaches courses in biological psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental psychology.

Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms of language comprehension and production, the interaction of attention and syntax across the lifespan, and the influence of emotional and person-related information on perception. She frequently integrates behavioral and electrophysiological (ERP) methods in her work and is committed to bridging experimental research with applied practice.