Seit 2025: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin der Universitätsmedizin Göttingen. Forschungsprojekt: "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. Nadav Davidovitch, Dr. Rakefet Zalashik)

2019 – 2026: Dozentin (Senior Lecturer), Abteilung für Personalmanagement, Sapir Academic College

2023–2024: Leiterin des Masterstudiengangs Personalmanagement und -entwicklung, Fachbereich Personalmanagement, Sapir Academic College 

2016–2019: Postdoktorandin und PI, Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin der Universitätsmedizin Göttingen. Forschungsprojekt: “Timing Fertility - A Comparative Analysis of Time Constructions and the Social Practice of Egg-Freezing in Germany and Israel“ (Betreuerin: Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz); Finanziert durch das Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (IF), das Horizon-2020 Forschungs und Innovationsprogramm der Europäischen Kommission [Grant Agreement No. 749889] sowie das Postdoctoral Fellowship der Minerva Stiftung gefördert.

2015–2017: Forschungskoordinatorin, Abteilung für Soziologie und Anthropologie, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Forschungsprojekt: “Organized Patient Participation in Health Care: Collective Advocacy, Representation and Autonomy in Socio-Ethical Perspective” (PIs: Prof. Aviad E. Raz und Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz)

2014: Dissertation (Ph.D.), Abteilung für Soziologie und Anthropologie, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Titel: The influence of new medical technologies on per-ceptions of the “fetus” and “parenthood” among Israeli parents” (Betreuung: Prof. Aviad E. Raz und Prof. Yael Hashiloni Dolev)

2010–2012: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Abteilung für Soziologie und Anthropologie, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Forschungsprojekt: “Cross-cultural ethics of health and responsibility: Expert and lay perspectives regarding bioethical dilemmas in Germany and Israel” (PIs: Prof. Aviad E. Raz und Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz)

• Zeitlichkeit und medizinische Technologien
• Sozioethische und geschlechterbezogene Fragestellungen in der Reproduktionsmedizin und in Reprouktionstechnologien  
• Interkulturelle vergleichende Bioethik
• Empirische Bioethik
• Vertretung und Fürsprache in NGOs für Menschen mit Behinderungen

Sonderausgaben 

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). 

Peer-reviewed Artikel

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. 

Buchbeiträge

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”, AEM-Frühjahrskonferenz 2026, 16. April 2026, Göttingen, Deutschland

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

• “The Ectopolitics of Reproduction: Social, Ethical and Gender Aspects of Future Revolutionary Reproductive Technologies”, From Theory to Practice and Back: Anthropological contributions to the Future(s) of SRHR, 4. Juli 2024, Amsterdam, Niederlande

• “Frozen in Time – A comparative analysis of emerging temporalities among social egg freezing users in Germany and Israel”, The XX ISA world congress, 30. Juni 2023, Melbourne, Australien

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

• “Bioethics and Human Temporality: An Outline of Moral- Philosophical and Sociological Research Perspectives”, Workshop: Temporalities of the living: Health, disease and technology beyond the life course, STS Lab, 8. Dezember 2020, University of Lausanne, Schweiz (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), Experts Symposium: Comparative and transnational perspectives on technologies of fertility preservation and extension, DMU, 13. Juni 2019, Leicester, Großbritannien

• “Collective representation and the founders’ culture in the Israeli national association for autism”, The ESHMS 17th Biennial Conference, 7. Juni 2018,Lissabon, Portugal

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

• “Reproductive temporalities, gender and clinical labor–Experts’ debates on social egg-freezing in Germany and Israel”, 39. DGS-Kongress (Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie), 26. September 2018

• Artikel: “Das Einfrieren der Eizellen gibt Frauen ein Stück Handlungsmacht zurück.” (Fiedler, L.)Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin https://www.sueddeutsche.de/magazin/gesundheit/eizellen-einfrieren-vorteile-nachteile-kosten-risiken-szm.95173?reduced=true, 29. July 2025.
• Artikel: “Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints.” (Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. & Rimon-Zarfaty, N.).  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/, 2023