Tatjana Rauch studied Literature, History, and Philosophy at the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Konstanz. She also participated in the Eucor program, spending one semester at the University of Basel. In 2000, she finished her studies as Magistra Artia.

After graduating, she was the first employee for public relations at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe.

Until 2018, she worked for various institutions of the University of Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the fields of public relations and (online) editing: namely, in the department Public Relations and Marketing (now Executive Office and Strategy), the Study Center for Visually impaired students (now ACCESS@KIT), and at the Center for Technology-Enhanced Learning (ZML).

After a brief interim period in culture management, Tatjana Rauch joined the Communications division of the FZI in July 2020 under the extraordinary conditions of the coronavirus crisis. Her focus is on content management in internal and external communication.