[1] Thieberger graduated from La Trobe University with a BA Hons.
[2] His Masters[3] was also at La Trobe, then he moved to the University of Melbourne to complete his PhD in 2004 for his work on the grammar of South Efate (Nafsan), which was the first grammar to demonstrate the use of a media corpus as the basis for examples used in the grammar.
[4] Thieberger helped to establish the PARADISEC archive in 2003 and currently serves as its director.
He established Wangka Maya the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre in the late 1980s,[8] ASEDA, the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive, in the early 1990s, and co-founded the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity.
[9] He established Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai'i's digital language archive.