Susanne Stahl graduated with an MA in Visual Communication from Royal College of Art in London in 2012. She has a Diploma in Integrated Design at Bauhaus University Dessau and studied abroad at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology in Bangkok. From 2007 to 2009 she has worked with design studio Fons Hickmann m23 and in 2010 with IDEO London. Since 2013 she is running design studio Stahl R. From 2011 to 2015 she was an artistic assistant at Berlin University of the Arts and since 2016 Stahl has been a lecturer nationally and internationally e.g. University of Art and Design Halle, University of the Arts Bremen, University of Applied Sciences Anhalt and Nanyang Technological University Singapore. She is a regular jury member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Since 2022 she is a professor at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and since 2024 chairwoman of the board of 100 Best Posters e. V.