JürgenSchupp.studied Economics and Sociology in Mainz and Frankfurt am Main, completing his diploma in Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1983. He then took over a position as Junior Research Associate at the University of Frankfurt in the German Research Foundation’s Special Research Unit “Microanalytic Foundations of Social Policy” (Sfb 3). At the end of 1984, he transferred within the Special Research Unit into the project “Socio-Economic Panel”, located at DIW Berlin under then-president Hans-Jürgen Krupp, and thereafter made a series of longer research visits to the USA and Great Britain. In 1994, he completed his doctorate at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He has worked closely with the Free University Berlin for many years as a visiting lecturer at the Institute for Sociology. In March 2006 Jürgen Schupp has been appointed Honorary Professor for Sociology in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University. From 12/2005-03/2006 and 08-09/2006 Jürgen Schupp worked as Research Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Delmenhorst.
作为纵向社会经济小组研究(SOEP)的调查经理，Jürgen Schupp多年来一直负责规划SOEP作为调查工具的进一步发展。2011年2月至2012年12月，他担任社会经济小组研究(SOEP)研究单位临时负责人。2013年2月，他被任命为社会经济小组研究(SOEP)研究室主任。自2013年9月起，Jürgen Schupp在柏林自由大学与DIW Berlin合作，担任社会学全职教授，专注于实证社会研究。


他于2000年10月加入IZA作为研究员。