I am a DPhil candidate in International Relations (IR), having joined Oxford as an MPhil student in IR in 2022. Prior to the MPhil, I completed a BSc in Political Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), including an Erasmus+ exchange at Sciences Po Paris, alongside a BA in Romance Philology and Economics at LMU Munich. During my undergraduate studies, I worked as a research assistant at TUM and interned at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU.
As a first-generation student, I am passionately committed to promoting equality of opportunities in higher education, including as Co-Head of Project Access Germany and as EDI Officer at Nuffield College. Furthermore, I am a passionate trombonist in several groups, including Green Templeton College Bigband and Musikkapelle Altötting e.V. At several occasions, I have also performed as a satirist and parodist.
Publications
Brunner, F., Gatti, F., and Hall, T. (2025): A blessing or a curse? The role of money in shaping international health governance, European Journal of International Relations
Brunner, F. (2024): How to Do Things with Swords, or the Performativity of Violence, Oxford Political Review (Book Review)
Research interests
Crises, governance, and funding of international organisations, esp. WHO
Gender and feminist thinking
Political and international theory
Languages
I am fluent in German (native, Bavarian dialect), English and French. I also have varying degrees of proficiency in Latin, Spanish, Galician, Italian, Russian, and Turkish.
Scholarships
German Academic Scholarship Foundation PhD Scholarship (since 2025)
Netzwerk Engagement (2025, Munich-based scholarship programme supporting civic engagement)
Nuffield-DPIR Joint Graduate Scholarship in IR (since 2024)
Student Forum in the Tönissteiner Kreis e.V. (since 2023)
German Academic Exchange Service (2022–2024)
German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2019–2024)
Max Weber Programme Bavaria (2019–2024)
German National Scholarship (2017–2019)
