Between 1982 and 1989 she studied History, Psychology, Literature and Finno-Ugristics at the University of Hamburg, with a couple of lengthy secondments at Vienna.
[2] She then received support for her studies between 1991 and 1993 from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Polish Academy of Sciences and the German Academic Exchange Service, enabling her to progress to her doctorate which she received in 1993 from the University of Hamburg in return for a dissertation dealing with Polish and Ukrainian Social democracy between 1890 and 1914 in the region known at the time as the Austro-Hungarian crown land of Galicia.
[8] The habilitation dissertation earned Jobst a "Venia Legendi", amounting to an authority to teach Modern and East European History at the University of Hamburg.
[9] Alongside her teaching duties at Hamburg, between 2006 and 2012 Jobst became a frequent presence at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, where she held a guest professorship.
[2] In Hamburg she renewed her links with the Army University, taking a teaching job on "History and Society in Eastern Europe" with the Sociology and Humanities section of the "Leadership Academy".