Stefanie Rudolf studied Oriental Studies and German linguistics in Erlangen and Aleppo (Syria). She wrote her Master's thesis on the linguistic datability of Old Testament texts. After winning a scholarship at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Berlin, she was awarded her PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin for a dissertation on Syriac astrology.

Stefanie worked as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Semitic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, from 2014 to 2020 where she taught Syriac, Ethiopic (Ge’ez), and Mandaic.

In 2021, she joined the project “New Papyri from Elephantine” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and in 2022 the Max Planck Research Group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body ca. 800–1650,” at the MPIWG Berlin where she was working on Syriac medical texts and ‘wisdom’ in the Syriac tradition.

Currently, Stefanie is preparing a Mandaic sourcebook on magic and medicine (with Markham Geller and Bogdan Burtea).

Her research interests besides languages and language contact are the history of religions and the history of sciences in Late Antiquity, especially in the linguistic realms of Syriac, Ethiopic, and Arabic.