Dr Christine Zunke has been a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg since 2007 and teaches courses in theoretical and practical philosophy with a focus on natural philosophy. Together with Prof. Dr Myriam Gerhard, she has also headed the Critical Natural Philosophy research centre there since 2008.

Committee work:

• Deputy Central Equal Opportunities Officer (since 2020)
• Decentralised Equal Opportunities Officer of School IV (2012-2022)
• Member of the Commission of the Senate for Equal Opportunities (KfG) (since 2013)
• Subject master's mentor at the Institute of Philosophy (2010-2016)
• Representative of the academic mid-level faculty on the Faculty Council (2011-2012) and on the Study Commission (2007-2011)

Further biographical stations:

• 2010: Visiting researcher at the Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies (ZfL), Berlin
• 2008: Visiting lecturer at the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI) Covilhã, Portugal
• 2008: Foundation of the Research Centre for Critical Natural Philosophy (FkN) at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg.
• 01.08.2007: Thesis defence passed summa cum laude. Published in 2008 by Akademie Verlag (Berlin) under the title Kritik der Hirnforschung. New edition 2012 by de Gruyter Verlag (Berlin/Boston)
• 2003-2007: Lecturer and research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the Leibniz University of Hanover
• 2004-2006: Scholarship of the Graduate Programme of the Leibniz-University-Hannover
• 28.08.2003: Master's degree examination passed with distinction.
  Master's thesis: Critique of the German stem cell debate. Published by PapyRossa Verlag Cologne in 2004 under the title Das Subjekt der Würde.
• 1998-2003: Studied Philosophy (HF) and German Literature (HF) at the Leibniz University of Hanover
• 1994-1997: Master's degree in Cultural Studies (HF), Philosophy (NF) and Art Studies (NF) at the University of Bremen