Julia Zaenker

Julia Zaenker

PhD fellow

Education

2021

 

MA Technology and Philosophy (Technik und Philosophie), TU Darmstadt, Germany

 

2017

 

BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

 

2013

 

Certified Chemical Technical Assistant, Vocational Training, K+S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH

 

Academic Employment

  • PhD Fellow, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen in the ERC-advanced grant project "Who are We?" (since September 2021)

Prizes, Awards, Scholarships

  • “Preis der Freunde der TU Darmstadt”, award for the best thesis in the faculty of humanities (FB02) with MA-thesis “Categorical Fulfilment. Phenomenological and Philosophical Perspectives”
  • Scholarship for an 8-week vacation research internship awarded by the EPSRC (accepted) and the Welcome Trust, project: „Effect of cell properties on deformation in flowcytometry for disease diagnosis“, with Dr. Timm Krüger (Computational Fluid Mechanics, University of Edinburgh)
  • "Class Medal” in Chemical Engineering, best performing student in year two, three and four
  • “Jacobs Prize”, best performing student in the course "Environmental Issues for Chemical Engineers“

Conferences and Workshops Organized

As Student Assistant to Prof. Sophie Loidolt (2018-2021):

  • Workshop “Being-Through-Law: Experiences and Structures of Rightlessness”
  • Workshop Series “Practical Philosophy and Phenomenology” (guests: Inga Römer, Oliver Marchart, Julian Hanich)

As Member of the Organizing Committee for the Interdisciplinary Network for Studies Investigating Science and Technology (INSIST):

  • Network meeting with panel discussion (October 2019, Darmstadt)
  • Conference for ECI researchers “Wissenskrisen-Krisenwissen” (March 2021, Frankfurt)

Papers Presented at Conferences and Workshops

June 22, 2023
"Feminist Phenomenology and Social Ontology. Gerda Walther and Iris Marion Young in Dialogue", Lecture Series "Phenomenology and Metaphysics" [online], Center History of Women Philosophers
and Scientists, Paderborn University, Germany.

April 17, 2023
"Asymmetrical Reciprocity and the Phenomenology of Communication", Phenomenology Research Group Graduate Workshop, Loyola University, Chicago IL, USA.

March 3, 2023
"Actual versus Imagined Others?: Iris Marion Young and the Phenomenology of Communicating with Others”, Judgment, Pluralism, Democracy. On the Desirability of Speaking with Others (March 2-3), Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, Bard College, NY, USA.

August 31, 2022
"Situated, Embodied, Entangled. Iris Marion Young and 4E-Cognition", British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference, Exeter, UK.

Peer Manuscript Reviewer

TOPOI, Puncta

Participation in Committees

Ongoing:

  • Committee Member, Alumni- und Förderverein der Hessischen Schülerakademien, Alumni Association for the Hessian High School Summer Academy (2014-present)

Past:

  • Member of the Organizing Committee, Interdisciplinary Network for Studies Investigating Science and Technology (INSIST) (2019-2021)
  • Senior Discipline Representative Chemical Engineering (2016-2017)

Teaching

Teaching at the University of Copenhagen

  • Seminar in BA-Course “Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind” (Fall 2022)
  • BA-Course “Applied Phenomenology” (Fall 2022)
  • MA-Course “Philosophy of Sociality: Core Concepts and Contemporary Challenges”(Spring 2022) with Felipe León Patricia Meindl and Lucy Osler
  • BA-Course “Applied Phenomenology” (Fall 2021)

Teaching Assistance at TU Darmstadt and the University of Edinburgh

  • Assisted with introductory and advanced courses in practical philosophy and phenomenology at TU Darmstadt (summer 2019 – summer 2021)
  • Developed and implemented a weekly online tutorial on writing term papers in philosophy to support courses offered in the module “Reflecting Normative Orders” (2020 - summer 2021)
  • Obtained Certificate “Writing Consultation”, Writing Center, TU Darmstadt (13 ECTS)
  • Coordinated the School of Engineering’s Peer Support Scheme at the University of Edinburgh (2015-2017), planned workshops and events and handled recruitment for the scheme (2014-2017)

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