Since 2025: Research associate, Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Göttingen Medical Centre. Research project: “The legacy of Nazi medicine in contemporary mental health ethics: Comparing three decades of debates in Germany and Israel 1990-2020” (PIs: Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz, Prof. Dr. Nadav Davidovitch, Dr. Rakefet Zalashik)

2019 – 2026: Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Resource Management Studies, Sapir Academic College

2023 -2024: Head of MA Program in Human Resource Management and Development, Department of Human Resource Management Studies, Sapir Academic College 

2016-2019: Post-Doctoral research fellow and PI, Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Göttingen Medical Centre. Research project: “Timing Fertility - A comparative analysis of the relationship between time constructions and 'social freezing' in Germany and Israel” (Host: Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz)

2015-2017: Research Coordinator, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Research Project: “Organized Patient Participation in Health Care: Collective Advocacy, Representation and Autonomy in Socio-Ethical Perspective” (PIs: Prof. Aviad E. Raz and Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz)

2014: PhD Dissertation at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  Title: “The influence of new medical technologies on per-ceptions of the “fetus” and “parenthood” among Israeli Parents” (Advisors: Prof. Aviad E. Raz and Prof. Yael Hashiloni Dolev)

2010-2012: Research assistant, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Research Project: “Cross-cultural ethics of health and responsibility: Expert and lay perspectives regarding bioethical dilemmas in Germany and Israel” (PIs: Prof. Aviad E. Raz and Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz)

• Temporality and medical technologies
• Socio-ethical and gender issues in reproductive medicine and technologies
• Cross-cultural comparative bioethics
• Empirical bioethics
• Representation and advocacy in disability NGOs 

Edited Special Journal Issues 

Rimon-Zarfaty, N., & Schweda, M. (2023). Topical Collection: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 

Jongsma, K., Rimon‐Zarfaty, N., Raz, A., & Schicktanz, S. (2018). Special Issue: Collective representation in healthcare policy, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 15(3). 

Articles in Refereed Journals

Rimon-Zarfaty, N., & Schicktanz, S. (2022). The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: A case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44(2), 19. doi: 10.1007/s40656-022-00495-x. 

Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Kostenzer, J., Sismuth, L.K., & de Bont, A. (2021). Between ’Medical’ and ’Social’ Egg Freezing: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Frameworks in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the Netherlands. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 18: 683-699. doi: 10.1007/s11673-021-10133-z. 

Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Raz, A., Bar-Nadav, B., & Vaintropov, E. (2020). Collective Representation and the Founders’ Culture in the Israeli National Association for Autism. Voluntary Sector Review, 12(3), 313-331. doi: 10.1332/204080520X16050133060491. 

Rimon-Zarfaty, N. & Schweda, M. (2018). Biological clocks, biographical schedules and generational cycles: Temporality in the ethics of assisted reproduction. Bioethica Forum, 11(4), 133-141. 

Raz, A., Jongsma, K., Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Spaeth, E., Bar-Nadav, B., Vaintropov, E., & Schicktanz, S. (2018). Representing autism: Challenges of collective representation in German and Israeli associations for and of autistic people. Social Science & Medicine, 200, 65-72. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.024. 

Rimon-Zarfaty, N., & Jotkowitz, A. (2012). The Israeli abortion committees’ process of decision making: An ethical analysis. Journal of Medical Ethics, 38(1), 26-30. doi: 10.1136/jme.2009.032797. 

Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Raz, A., & Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. (2011). When does a fetus become a person? An Israeli viewpoint. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare, 37(4), 216-224. doi:10.1136/jfprhc-2011-0110. 

Chapters in Scientific Books 

Rimon-Zarfaty, N. (2018). Parochial Altruism – Insights form a religion sensitive analysis of the Israeli surrogacy and egg-donation legislations. In: S. Mitra, T. Patel, & S. Schicktanz (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel (pp. 371-393). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 

• Doing Justice with Menopause Apps? An ethical perspective – April 16, 2026 - AEM Spring Conference 2026, Göttingen, Germany

• Putting Reproduction on Ice: Navigating Temporality in Social Egg Freezing – A Comparative Study of Germany and Israel (Invited lecture) - April 4, 2025 - Medicine, Time and the Good Life, Göttingen, Germany

• The Ectopolitics of Reproduction: Social, Ethical and Gender Aspects of Future Revolutionary Reproductive Technologies - July 4, 2024 - From Theory to Practice and Back: Anthropological contributions to the Future(s) of SRHR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Frozen in Time – A comparative analysis of emerging temporalities among social egg freezing users in Germany and Israel - June 30, 2023 - The XX ISA world congress, Melbourne, Australia

• Surplus Pre-Embryos in IVF Units: A Sociological Perspective (Invited lecture) - May 17, 2022 - Surplus Pre-Embryos in IVF Units- Experts Round Table, The Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem

• Bioethics and Human Temporality: An Outline of Moral- Philosophical and Sociological Research Perspectives - December 8, 2020 - Workshop: Temporalities of the living: Health, disease and technology beyond the life course, STS Lab, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Online workshop)

• “Freezing for the fourth and fifth child”- The usage of social egg freezing among Israeli Jewish religious women- An intracultural perspective (Invited lecture) - June 13, 2019 - Experts Symposium: Comparative and transnational perspectives on technologies of fertility preservation and extension, DMU, Leicester, UK

• Collective representation and the founders’ culture in the Israeli national association for autism - June 7, 2018 - The ESHMS 17th Biennial Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

• Parochialism and fertility related legislation – Insights form a religion sensitive analysis of the Israeli surrogacy and egg-donation laws - July 18, 2018 - The 19th ISA world congress, Toronto, Canada

• Reproductive temporalities, gender and clinical labor–Experts’ debates on social egg-freezing in Germany and Israel - September 26, 2018 - The 39th Congress of the German Sociological Association

• Fiedler, L. July 29, 2025. Das Einfrieren der Eizellen gibt Frauen ein Stück Handlungsmacht zurück. Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin https://www.sueddeutsche.de/magazin/gesundheit/eizellen-einfrieren-vorteile-nachteile-kosten-risiken-szm.95173?reduced=true
• Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. & Rimon-Zarfaty, N. (2023). Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints.  Bill of Health, the blog of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2023/09/13/egg-freezing-in-israel-legal-framework-and-womens-viewpoints/