Erika Jensen-Jarolim graduated to Doctor of Medicine at the University of Vienna in 1985. In the same year she got affiliated to the Dept. of General and Experimental Pathology at the University of Vienna, where she started research work in the field of allergy in the group of Prof. Dr. Dietrich Kraft.
In 1988 she joined the group of Prof. Dr. Lars K. Poulsen to analyse the mechanisms of allergen immunotherapy in the Dept. of Allergology at Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Between 1989 and 1991 she had the great opportunity to join the research team of Prof. Dr. Beda M. Stadler at the Institute of Immunology, University of Berne, Switzerland where during two years her research interest was dedicated to the role of anti-IgE autoantibodies in allergy.
After a baby break, Erika Jensen-Jarolim returned to the Department of Pathophysiology in Vienna (earlier General and Experimental Pathology) in 1995 and started up teaching activities in Pathophysiology. Her major research interest from this time on was on mechanisms of type I. allergy, especially food allergy, and the elucidation of allergen B-cell epitopes.
In 1998 Erika Jensen-Jarolim was nominated Assistant Professor followed by her habilitation in 1999. In the same year she became Associate Professor of the Medical Faculty, University of Vienna, and founded the working group for AllergoOncology. She is a dedicated  "Mentor of Scientists" at the Medical University of Vienna.
In 2000 she completed the subjects Immunology and Pathophysiology after trainings  at the University Clinic of Dermatology (Prof. Dr. Hubert Pehamberger) and in Oncology (Prof. Dr. Christoph C. Zielinski).

Recent career steps:
2006: Head of IPP (Dept. of Pathophysiology), Center of Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Medical University Vienna.
2007: Professorship of Pathophysiology at the Medical University Vienna and Member of the Club of Female Professors at the Medical University Vienna.