Christine G. van Burken

Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken works as postdoctoral researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on technology and ethics. Currently she is working on improving humanitarian logistics for refugees on a project called "The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Modeling Humanitarian Logistics". She has a BSc in Human Kinetic Technology (The Hague University of Technology, 2002), a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (Eindhoven, Fontys University of Professional Education, 2004), a MA at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Philosophy (2006) and a PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology (2014). Her dissertation was about ethics and military technology. Christine has a part-time job as assistant professor in military ethics at the Royal Military Academy in the Netherlands. She worked as postdoctoral researcher at Linnaeus University until 2017, where she analyzed the role of ethics and technology in the sharing economy. She uses insights from reformational philosophy to clarify normative issues related to technology in different contexts. Christine worked as assistant director of the OZSW (Dutch Research School for Philosophy) from 2014-2018. She is a reserve soldier at the National Reserve Corps and she worked for several years as a mechanical engineer prior to her doctoral studies. Christine is married to Richard and they have two sons.