Ursula Wienen studied Translation at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (TH Köln) and Romance Philology and General Linguistics at the University of Cologne. She completed her doctorate in 2006 and habilitated in Romance Linguistics and Translation Studies at Saarland University in 2016. She has been a professor of Linguistics and Translation Studies with a focus on specialist translation (French) at TH Köln since 2007.