She worked as a research assistant at the "Topography of Terror" Foundation in Berlin, and as a doctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel), and the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig (Germany).
In 2006, she received her doctorate from the Centre for Anti-Semitism Research (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung / ZfA) at the Technische Universität Berlin.
Her book on the history of German-Jewish student fraternities in Imperial and Weimar Germany was published in 2007.
[5][6] Miriam Rürup serves a member on the advisory boards of several scientific journals, e.g. WerkstattGeschichte (since 2002), Aschkenas (since 2013), and the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (since 2014).
[8] She is also a member of the International Advisory Board Bergen-Belsen,[9] of the Study Group Human Rights in the 20th Century by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne),[10] and the Wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft of the Leo-Baeck-Institut in Germany.