Jana Fingarova has a background in language teaching and applied psychology. She defended her second master thesis in the area of migration studies at the University of Education Karlsruhe in 2012. In 2015, she pursued a scientific career in the project TRANSWEL (Mobile Welfare in a Transnational Europe: An Analysis of Portability Regimes of Social Security Rights) at Goethe University Frankfurt, which she continued at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg. There, she defended her Ph.D. thesis in 2019.
