Gabriela Nicolescu is an anthropologist, curator and writer interested in what visual and material culture perspectives bring to development and migration studies, political economy, and the anthropology of health; museums and museum practices; and the history of social sciences, especially in Europe.

She has conducted extensive ethnographic work in Romania, Italy and the UK on the shifting relations between politics and representation, the diffusion and social organization of cultural ideas, migration, remittances and notions of care work. Gabriela has curated and co-curated multiple international exhibitions in Austria, Romania, Hong Kong, Philippines and the UK. Gabriela completed her PhD in Visual Anthropology in Goldsmiths, University of London. She taught in Goldsmiths, University of London and in University of Bucharest and worked for Romanian Peasant Museum, University of London, University College Cork and University of Oxford. Currently she works as a Senior Editor for the National Library of Romania and is a founding member of the Centre for Visual and Digital Anthropology.