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Rosi Braidotti retired formally from Utrecht University in 2022. She is still very active in writing books, giving lectures, attending policy think thanks, giving interviews to the media, and working on becoming a ‘good ancestor’. She is a honorary visiting professor at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. And she is active for the ROSANNA Fund for Women, that she started and funded together with her partner Anneke Smelik.

Here is a short biography, but for more information and all the updates, we refer you to Braidotti's personal website: www.rosibraidotti.com.

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University. She received the Humboldt Research Award in 2022 for her life-long contribution to scholarship in the Humanities. She is Ambassador for climate change action. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2005, Braidotti was honored with a Royal Knighthood from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. She holds Honorary Degrees from Helsinki (2007) and Linköping (2013). Among Rosi Braidotti’s many books and other publications, translated in many languages, is a trilogy on the Posthuman for Polity Press (2013, 2019, 2022), as well as The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022) for Bloomsbury Academic. She recently wrote a family memoir in Italian, Il ricordo di un sogno (2024).

She has taught at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands since 1988, when she was appointed as the founding professor in women’s studies. In 1995 she became the founding Director of the Netherlands research school of Women’s Studies, a position she held till 2005. Braidotti is a pioneer in European Women’s Studies: she founded the inter-university SOCRATES network NOISE and the Thematic Network for Women’s Studies ATHENA, which she directed till 2005. She was a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College in 2005-6; a Jean Monnet professor at the European University Institute in Florence in 2002-3 and a fellow in the school of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1994. She was founding director of the Centre for the Humanities from 2007 until September 2016. In 2022 Professor Braidotti was awarded the  Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to excellence in academic scholarship.

Throughout her work, Rosi Braidotti asserts and demonstrates the importance of combining theoretical concerns with a serious commitment to producing socially and politically relevant scholarship that contributes to making a difference in the world. Braidotti’s output also included several edited volumes. Her work has been translated in more than 25 languages and all the main books in at least three languages other than English.