Sociologist, writer, researcher and university professor. Graduated in Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico, with a doctorate from Temple University, based in Philadelphia (USA). He has become a world reference with the project of which he is the founder, Decolonity Europe. Grosfoguel's research is linked to the philosophy of Latin American liberation, to the perspective of the coloniality of power and to the search for new orientations of non-Eurocentric knowledge. He is currently a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Berkeley. He has published, among other academic texts: El giro decolonial. Reflexiones para una diversidad epistémica más allá del capitalismo global (2007), co-edited with Santiago Castro-Gómez; and Colonial Subjects: Puerto Rican Subjects in Global Perspective (2003).