Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. She was the founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. A world figure in gender and critical theory, she set up in 1989 the Network of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies in Europe (NOI&SE) within the Erasmus Programme. From 1997 to 2005 she was the founding scientific director of the SOCRATES Thematic Network for European Women’s Studies and was awarded in 2010 the Erasmus Prize of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission for an outstanding contribution to social inclusion.

An established scholar in the fields of continental philosophy and epistemology, feminist and gender theories and post-structuralist thought, her most recent book is Nomadic Subjects (second edition, revised and enlarged, 2011, Columbia University Press).