Maria Müller-Pulsfuß studied History of Latin American and German as a Foreign Language at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the University of Cologne and Saint Cloud State University (USA).

From 2006, she worked at the Language Center of the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt as a lecturer for German as a foreign language. There she taught various language courses and organized international summer courses. From 2018 to 2020, she also coordinated and managed the establishment of a writing center and language learning coaching at the KU.

From October 2020 to September 2023, she was responsible for the cooperation projects with JWL as project coordinator. Since 2022, she has been working as an online lecturer in the "Learning Facilitator" course.

Since October 2023, she has also been the course coordinator at the School of Transformation and Sustainability.