Hossenfelder completed her undergraduate degree with distinction in 1997 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main.[4] She remained there for a Master's degree, and she wrote a thesis under the supervision of Walter Greiner titled "Particle Production in Time Dependent Gravitational Fields", which she completed in 2000.[5] Hossenfelder received her doctorate from the same institution in 2003, for the thesis "Black Holes in Large Extra Dimensions" under the supervision of Horst Stöcker.[6][7]