2004–2009 Study of medieval and modern history and religious studies at the University of Leipzig
February–March 2011 Internship at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Dublin
April 2011–September 2014 Doctorate scholar of the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Winter Semester 2012/13 Lectureship at the Institute for Religious Studies of University of Leipzig
2013–2014 lectureships at the Institute for the Study of Religion of the Freie Universität Berlin
Since October 2014 Research associate at the Institute for Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, with focus on Christianity, of the University of Potsdam
July 2015–December 2016 Research associate at the externally funded project “Edition der Sitzungsprotokolle des Evangelischen Landeskonsistoriums in Rumänien der Universität Koblenz-Landau”
March 2016 Defence of dissertation „Die Lehre vom arischen Christentum. Das wissenschaftliche Selbstverständnis im Eisenacher „Entjudungsinstitut‘“ at the Religionswissenschaftliches Institut of the Freie Universität of Berlin
October 2016 guest lecturer at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz/Austria within the frame of the Erasmus+ program
September 2017 and March 2018 Lectureship at the Policy Acadamy of Brandenburg
Memberships
Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschland
Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien
Arbeitskreis für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde
Dirk Schuster has been Liaison Lecturer of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom since 2016.