Mario Schulze (born 1986 in Halle/Saale, Germany) focuses in his transdisciplinary research on the visuality, mediality and materiality of knowledge. He holds a doctorate in cultural analysis from the University of Zurich and has received Fellowships from the Collegium Helveticum (the joint Institute of Advanced Studies of the ETH, UZH and ZHdK Zurich), the MECS at the Leuphana University Lüneburg and the Museumakademie Joanneum Graz. Schulze served as interim professor for Media Studies at the University of Basel and he has held postdoctoral research position at the Zurich University of the Arts as well as at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has also taught at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Lucerne where he will work as a curator in an Ambizione research project by Sarine Waltenspül on visual encyclopedias in the coming years.

Schulze's first book, Wie die Dinge sprechen lernten: Eine Geschichte des Museumsobjektes 1968–2000, was published in 2017 (transcript). It discusses how the conceptualization of objects in cultural history exhibitions has changed in the last 50 years. His work has appeared in journals like Isis, Representations or Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte as well as in various edited volumes. His film unlearning flow (made with Christoph Oeschger and Sarine Waltenspül) was recently selected for different international festivals. Currently, he is preparing a book together with Sarine Waltenspül that tells the history of one scientific film from fluid dynamics. By tracing not only the production of this film in the lab but also its manifold reuses for teaching and recruiting as well as in the arts the book will map manifold practices of disseminating knowledge by means of moving images.