Elmars Krausz graduated and received his PhD from the University of Sydney. He has since held positions at The Australian National University (1971-1973, 1978), Oxford University (1974-1975), the University of Virginia (1976-1977), the University of Sydney (1979-1980) before being appointed as Research Fellow at the Research School of Chemistry.

He was awarded fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and was appointed Professor at the Research School of Chemistry in 2002.