Chiara Robbiano is Associate professor of philosophy, diversity committee chair, and lecturer in the China Studies track at University College Utrecht (Utrecht University, NL). She has been a visiting professor of philosophy at Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan). 

With a background in Ancient Greek Philosophy, she is working on cross-cultural philosophy and philosophy of education, publishing in books and peer-reviewed journals such as Philosophy East and West, Ancient Philosophy, Journal of World Philosophies, Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, Culture and Dialogue, and Tropos. She co-edited Key Concept in World Philosophies. A toolkit for philosophers, for Bloomsbury Academic, a volume with 45 chapters (2023); she contributed to a OUP volume as a member of the international Buddhist-Platonist Dialogues. She is a board member of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, and serves as reviewer for various philosophy journals. She is also involved in SoTL (scholarship of teaching and learning) and in projects promoting dialogue and reflection in students, teachers and the broader public, such as the TV series Food For Thought. 

In her most recent publications and lectures, Chiara Robbiano engages in dialogue with East Asian, South Asian, Ancient Greek, and contemporary philosophers, to develop frameworks, concepts, and embodied practices that promote valuing diversity, learning, thinking, and self-cultivation together, especially in higher education.

Studying philosophy has always been a way for her to probe under our unexamined everyday assumptions and to cultivate intellectual humility. She believes we should always seek new frameworks, practices, projects and conversation partners, to engage together in epistemic friction and real dialogues across differences.