Kemmler-Sack did her doctorate on "Untersuchungen an ternären Uran (V)oxiden" (Investigations on ternary uranium (V)oxides) in 1962.[5][7][8] She habilitated in 1968 and the title of her habilitation thesis was "Über spektroskopische und magnetische Untersuchungen an Oxidfluoriden es fünfwertien Urans" (About spectroscopic and magnetic investigations on oxide fluorides it five-valent uranium).[5] She became a university lecturer in 1968, an extraordinary professor in 1973, a university professor in 1978.[5]