Tufan Acil is a Postdoc Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Freie University Berlin.

He studied Philosophy and Architecture at METU in Ankara, Turkey. Later, he was awarded by a scholarship from DAAD for his master studies in Germany. He obtained his M.A. degree with a thesis on the Concept of Freedom in Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Then he held a scholarship from German Research Institution and was a fellow of the international research training group InterArt at Freie University of Berlin and at Goldsmiths College (London). He completed his PhD study and published his thesis on Transgressions and Convergences: A practice-based Aesthetics. In 2018 he participated in the mobility program “Global Humanities Teaching and Research Stay” at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

In 2019 summer term he was a research fellow in the Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture at the University of Prešov, Slovakia.

His publications include: Affekte als Einteilungskriterium der Künste, in: produktion – AFFEKTION – Rezeption, Berlin 2014; Grenzüberschreitungen in (der) Kunst: Eine praxisbezogene Ästhetik, Bielefeld 2017.

During his research stay he realized:
Estetické fórum: Media Transformations and Convergences
Workshop: New Media Arts
Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov warmly welcomed Dr. Tufan Acil's contributions during the conferences mentioned below:
Coordinates of Aesthetics, Art and Culture IV, Prešov, Slovakia
Questions and Problems of Perspectives of Art respectively "Ends of Art" in the Aesthetic, Artistic and Philosophic Theories, High Tatras, Slovakia