Dr Christine Zunke has been a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg since 2007 and teaches courses in theoretical and practical philosophy, specialising in philosophy of nature. Since 2008, she has also co-directed the Research Centre for Critical Philosophy of Nature there, alongside Prof. Dr Myriam Gerhard.

Committee roles:

• Deputy Gender Equality Officer (since 2020)
• School IV Departmental Gender Equality Officer (2012–2022)
• Member of the Commission of the Senate for Gender Equality (KfG) (since 2013)
• Master’s programme mentor at the Institute of Philosophy (2010–2016)
• Representative of mid-level academic staff on the Faculty Council (2011–2012) and on the Curriculum Committee (2007–2011)

Further career highlights:

• 2010: Visiting scholar at the Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies (ZfL), Berlin
• 2008: Visiting lecturer at the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal
• 2008: Founded the Research Centre for Critical Philosophy of Nature (FkN) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Oldenburg.
• 1 August 2007: Passed her thesis defence with the distinction ‘summa cum laude ’. Published in 2008 by Akademie Verlag (Berlin) under the title *Kritik der Hirnforschung *. New edition published in 2012 by de Gruyter Verlag (Berlin/Boston)
• 2003–2007: Lecturer and research assistant at the Department of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover
• 2004–2006: Scholarship from the Postgraduate Funding Programme at Leibniz University Hannover
• 28 August 2003: Passed the Magister degree examination with a grade of ‘very good ’.
  Master’s thesis: A Critique of the German Stem Cell Debate. Published in 2004 by PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne, under the title *Das Subjekt der Würde* (The Subject of Dignity ).
• 1998–2003: Studied Philosophy (HF) and German Literature (HF) at Leibniz University Hannover
• 1994–1997: Undergraduate studies in Cultural Studies (HF), Philosophy (NF) and Art History (NF) at the University of Bremen