Butnaru, DenisaDenisa Butnaru (Dr.), born in 1980, is the principal investigator of the project »Deviant Bodies. Extended Bodies«. The project is funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and based at the University of Konstanz. Her major fields of interest include theories of subject and subjectivity in phenomenology, sociology of the body, science and technology studies, disability studies, and qualitative methodology in social sciences. Her research focuses on the transformation of the body by recent technologies, such as exoskeletons, while using the phenomenology of the body as a theoretical background.