[1] She received her master's degree in 2000 with a thesis on the literary forms of the debate on Darwinism (Literarische Formen der Darwinismus-Debatte).
Die Darwinismus-Debatte im Bild as part of a research project at the Max Planck Institute.
She received her doctorate at Humboldt University at the end of 2005 and was presented the Max Planck Society's Otto Hahn Award for her dissertation.
[2] In her article, called "Jim Button saves the theory of evolution" ("Jim Knopf rettet die Evolutionstheorie"), Voss presented evidence that Ende wanted to write a contrast to Nazi racial ideology and their misuse of Darwin's theory of evolution.
[3][4] Voss received the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose from the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung for her study of Darwin's theory of evolution in 2009.