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Sarine Waltenspül is a media scholar and historian of science and technology, who also works as a filmmaker and curator. Her current research interests include scientific film, cultural heritage under the condition of the digital, visuality and knowledge, as well as practice-oriented research approaches.

Sarine studied philosophy, art history, and cultural analysis/cultural history and theory, at the Universities of Basel, Zurich, and Humboldt University of Berlin. She earned her doctorate in media studies and has held research positions at Zurich University of the Arts, the MECS/Leuphana University of Lüneburg, the Collegium Helveticum/ETH Zurich, and the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Additionally, she was an archival fellow at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, a HERMES scholar (Humanities Education in Research, Data, and Methods), and an interim professor at the University of Basel.

She has co-led and led various research projects and is currently the principal investigator of the project Visualpedia. ‘Atlas Encyclopaedia Cinematographica’ and the Visual Science and Technology Studies (2022–2026, SNSF) at the University of Lucerne. The interfaces developed within this project, in collaboration with Moritz Greiner-Petter and Mario Schulze, were awarded the Neu-Whitrow Prize by the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in 2025. She co-curated the exhibition String Figures. A Research Exhibition at Museum Tinguely Basel (2024/25), and co-directed the essay film Unlearning Flow (2019), which was nominated for awards at the International Short Film Festival Winterthur and Kasseler Dokfest.

In 2024, her book Modelle im Film. Eine kleine Kinogeschichte was published by diaphanes. Her forthcoming second book, Fließend. Geschichte, Ästhetik und Politik des wissenschaftlichen Films, co-authored with Mario Schulze, will be published by Konstanz University Press in October 2025.

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