Bunse-Gerstner earned her Ph.D. from
Bielefeld University in 1978. Her dissertation,
Der HR-Algorithmus zur numerischen Bestimmung der Eigenwerte einer Matrix, was jointly supervised by Ludwig Elsner and Hans Johnen. Until 2017, Bunse-Gerstner was head of the Numerics group in the Zentrum für Technomathematik (ZeTeM) at the
University of Bremen. ==Book==