Maria Crîngaci Țiplic graduated from the Faculty of Letters, History and Journalism of the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu specializing in history (2000) and afterwards completed the studies program "Conservation and restoration of the archaeological museum heritage" at the same faculty. In 2007, she defended the doctoral thesis with the title "Archaeological and architectural evidence of Saxon colonization in southern Transylvania", under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Nägler. In 2000, she started working at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu. She published a volume as single author (The "German guests" in southern Transylvania. History, archeology and architecture (12th and 13th centuries), Bucharest, 2011), edited a collaborative volume (Ecclesiastical Landscapes in Medieval Europe. An Archaeological Perspective, ed. José C. Sanchez-Pardo, Emmet H. Marron and Maria Crîngaci Țiplic, Oxford, 2020) and published three volumes encompassing Romanian scientific studies. She has also published over 50 studies in collective volumes and scientific magazines, as well as 28 reviews and book presentations. She is the executive editor of the Yearbook of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu. She has participated as a member in several national grants and projects, some of them in collaboration with the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu. She is a member of the Association for Transylvanian Studies and of the Commission for the History of Romanian Towns.