Professor Sabine Döring was appointed State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in February 2023.

Before joining the BMBF, she had held the position of philosophy professor at the University of Tübingen since 2008, where her focus was on practical philosophy (ethics). In 1997, Sabine Döring earned her doctorate at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on Robert Musil’s philosophy. She was a fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). She then spent periods of research and teaching at institutions including the University of California, Berkeley, King's College London, and Universität Hamburg. In 2005, Professor Döring obtained her senior university lecturing qualification from the University of Duisburg-Essen with a postdoctoral thesis on ethics and emotions (title: Gründe und Gefühle. Zur Lösung des Problems der Moral).

In summer 2022, she was awarded the Opus Magnum fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation for her current research on political liberalism and her book project on solidarity and freedom entitled Solidarisch handeln in Freiheit. Eine liberale Theorie des Gemeinwohls.