Steffen Siegel studied Media Sciences as well as Literary Sciences and Philosophy at the Universities of Konstanz and Lyon. He received his doctorate in Art History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After four years as a Research Associate at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, in 2009 he became Junior Professor of the Aesthetics of Knowledge at the Research Center »Laboratorium Aufklärung« of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 2011 he was guest lecturer at the Folkwang University, Essen.