Professor Nina Lykke, Head of Department of Gender Studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden. 1999-2003. Nina Lykke has a background in literary theory and her current research is on feminist cultural studies, including cultural studies of technoscience and feminist science studies. She is currently director of the research project "Meanings of Intersectionality in Gender Research and Feminist Theory", and scientific co-coordinator of the project "New visualisation- and simulator technologies: Their meaning for learning and knowledge production in gynaecology. E-pelvis and ultrasound-scanning", both funded by the Swedish Research Councils. Prof. Lykke is the director of the newly established Nordic Research School for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, which is funded by the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study (under the Nordic Council of Ministers) 2004-2009. The School is a joint venture with NIKK (Nordic Institute for Women´s Studies and Gender Research, Oslo) and a network of 36 partner institutions in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and North-West Russia. Important synergies can be generated between the research and research training activities of this research school and the EST.
She has published extensively within the field of feminist theory, cultural studies and feminist science studies, among others the book Cosmodolphins (co-author Mette Bryld), ZED Books, 2000, and the edited volume Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs (co-editor Rosi Braidotti), ZED Books, 1996. She is, moreover, associate editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies, and managing director of AOIFE (Association of Institutions of Feminist Education and Research in Europe).