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Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (born Iceland, 1958) is professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland. In 1997 she was the first woman to become a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Iceland.
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir graduated from Boston University in 1981. She pursued graduate studies in Boston and at Freie Universität Berlin where she finished her Masters degree in 1988. In 1993 she completed her doctoral studies at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. She specializes in the philosophy of Nietzsche, feminist philosophy and philosophy of nature and embodiment. Thorgeirsdottir is chair of the academic board of EDDA Center of Excellence (www.edda.hi.is) and chair of the board of GEST—Gender Equality Training Programme (www.geSt.hi.is), a joint project of the University of Iceland and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.