Amir Saifullin is a PhD candidate in the Art History department at the University of Zurich and currently a visiting PhD student in the German department at Princeton University. He studied philosophy and art history at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Warburg Institute in London. Operating at the intersection of anthropology and the histories of art, science, and philosophy, he holds a particular interest in how various visual forms of translation and mediation communicate and shape human cosmologies, politics, and communities. He is pursuing these interests within the framework of early Soviet visual culture while writing his PhD dissertation on Projectionism.

He has been a doctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, the Max Weber Stiftung, and the University of Zurich. His most recent publication, based on his master's thesis, focuses on Visual Thinking in the Cosmogonic Language of Jacob Böhme and Robert Fludd (Brink, Martin, Muratori (eds.), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023).