Klinge earned her medical degree from the University of Kiel in 1993.
[1] She conducted her neurosurgical residency at Hannover Medical School in Germany, completing it in 2002.
[1] The same year, she earned her habilitation and postdoctoral qualification "venia legendi".
[1] Klinge was senior associate professor of neurosurgery at the International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, Germany until 2009, when she became attending neurosurgeon and associate professor at Brown University.
[1] She is editor in chief of the medical journal Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management, a journal launched by Elsevier in 2013.