Biography Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht since 2007. 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. In 2005–2006 she was the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the Law School of Birckbeck College, University of London. In 2001–2003 she held the Jean Monnet Visiting Chair at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European Institute in Florence. In 1994-1995 she was a fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She was awarded an Honorary Degree in philosophy by the University of Helsinki in 2007 and by the Linköping University in 2013. She became an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) in 2009 and a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2014. Rosi Braidotti has extensive international experience. She initiated ATHENA, the European Thematic Network for Women’s Studies within the SOCRATES program, commissioned by the European Union (1997-2005). She founded the SOCRATES European exchange program, NOISE, which links 30 universities in different European countries, and offers a yearly European Summer School. In recognition of this networking talent, in 2010 she was awarded the European Commission Erasmus Prize for academic learning. In 2008 she set up the European Consortium for the New Humanities. She serves on the scientific board of the French National Research Council (CNRS) and on the board of the international Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres (CHCI). Rosi Braidotti’s research and writing engages feminist philosophy and cultural studies. She is especially interested in poststructuralism and critical theory as well as epistemology and Deleuze studies. Her books include, The Posthuman, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2013; Nomadic Theory. The Portable Rosi Braidotti, Columbia University Press: New York, 2011(b); Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2006; Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2002; and Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Columbia University Press: New York, 1994 and 2011(a) [second ed.]. She also serves as an advisor to the journals Signs, differences and Theory, Culture & Society. For more information please visit: www.rosibraidotti.com .