Susanne Flach graduated with an MA in English Linguistics from Universität Hamburg in 2010. From 2012 to 2017, she was a research assistant with the Chair of The Structure of Modern English at Freie Universität Berlin, where she completed her PhD with a usage-based approach to English serial work constructions in February 2017.

She joined the Université de Neuchâtel in March 2017 as a post-doctoral research assistant. Her main interests include usage-based approaches to lexico-grammatical patterns and syntax, language change in Late Modern English, quantitative corpus linguistics and computational linguistics.