Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science in the History Department at Stanford University and founding Director of the ‘Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering and Environment’ Project. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska (1974) and her Master’s Degree (1977) and Doctorate in History from Harvard University (1984). Between 1984 and 2024 she has held various affiliations including Pennsylvania State University (1988 - 2000),  University of Groningen (2005-2006) and Stanford University (2000-present). Her areas of specialisation include the historiography of race in science; the history of human experimentation; and the role of science in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, the history of women's participation in science; gender in the structure of scientific institutions; and the gendering of human knowledge.  Her influential works include Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (1993), Has Feminism changed Science (1999) and Plants and Empire: Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004).