Walpurga Friedl graduated from the University of Vienna with a bachelor's degree in history and German and a teaching degree in history and German, which she completed in 2021 with a thesis on family letters in the context of exile and migration. She is currently working on her history master's degree. As part of the ERASMUS program, Walpurga Friedl studied at FCSH Nova de Lisboa in the 2015/16 academic year and at Trinity College Dublin in the 2018 winter semester.
In 2017, Walpurga Friedl worked as a research assistant at lernraum.wien, the Institute for Multilingualism, Integration and Education at VHS Vienna, and Integrationshaus Wien as part of the MEVIEL[aljesser] project. In the winter semester of 2019/20, she held the tutorial "Scientific Working" at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Vienna. From September 2020 to April 2021, Walpurga Friedl was employed as a study assistant at the Institut für Geschichte des ländlichen Raums (the Institute for Rural History) in St. Pölten to create a guide to the history of migration in the Lower Austrian Provincial Archives. Additionally, she gained work experience in various educational professions. Since November 2021, Walpurga Friedl has been a scientific project assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social History at JKU Linz.
Her research interests are women's and gender history, family history, history of technology, history of agriculture, self-testimony research and contemporary history.

In April 2024 she joined the team as Graduate Teaching Assistant.