Yvanka B. Raynova, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, is Director of the Institute for Axiological Research in Vienna and Chair of the Department for Contemporary European Philosophy and Gender Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Her main fileds of research, teaching and interest are phenomenology, hermeneutics, axiology (theories and applied research on values), philosophical and cultural anthropology, diversity managment, gender studies, intercultural communication, and translations studies.

She is author of numerous books and studies in different languages, inter alia From Husserl to Ricoeur. The Phenomenological Approcach to Human Being (1993), Jean-Paul Sartre, the Philosopher without God (1995), Lifeworlds and Values (2008). Her discussions with the eminent french philosopher Paul Ricoeur - Between the Said and the Unsaid. In Conversation with Paul Ricoeur - has been published 2009 by Peter Lang. Her new book on phenomenology and hermeneutics Être et être libre : Deux « passions » des philosophies phénoménologiques. Études d'herméneutique comparative just appeared in the same publishing house and her main study on feminist philosophy - Feministische Philosophie im europäischen Kontext: Gender-Debatten zwischen "Ost" und "West" - will be released autumn 2010 by Böhlau Verlag.

She has translated several philosophical books from French into Bulgarian, including Jean-Paul Sartre's L'être et le néant and Paul Ricoeur's Le Conflit des interprétations, and diverse studies from French into German.