Ladan Rahbari (PhD Mult.) is a political sociologist, writer, and an associate professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and a senior researcher at the International Migration Institute (IMI). She was formerly based at Ghent University, Belgium, as the recipient of an FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) post-doctoral fellowship (2019-2022).

She is a member of the Amsterdam Young Academy (2021-2026).

Rahbari is the co-director and a board member of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) and a member of the board of the Amsterdam Centre for Migration Research (ACMR).

She obtained a Ph.D. in Gender and Diversity (Studies) from UGent and VUB (2019) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Mazandaran (2015), a Master’s degree in Anthropology (Tehran University), and a Bachelor’s degree in Italian Literature (Tehran University).

Her research interests include gender politics, migration politics, religion, body, and digital media, with a focus on Iran and Western Europe, and in the frameworks of postcolonial, feminist, and critical theories.

Between September 2019 and September 2020, Rahbari was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt).

In 2025, she published her first novel called, Exilium.