Mikkel B. Tin defended a thesis on Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetics in Paris in 2001. In the following years he was a researcher at the Folk Museums of Oslo and Prague, and in 2007 was appointed professor of Traditional Arts at the Telemark University College. In November and December 2013 he will be responsible for a PhD course in Body Based Practices at the Telemark University College. In his books and articles he focuses particularly on phenomenology, aesthetics and embodied knowledge.