Dr. Saida Bondini

Saida Bondini is a SNSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich. In 2021, she received her PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and the University of Lausanne. Her research investigates the interdependence between natural disasters and art-making in the early modern period, with an emphasis on seismic events in the Italian territory.

Saida has been the recipient of fellowships and internships from international institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art New York; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. During her doctoral studies, she held the position of Teaching Assistant in the Renaissance Department and Associate Lecturer in Early Modern Art at the Courtauld Institute.

Her current project, “From Destruction to Construction: Art-Making and Earthquake Hazards in Sixteenth-Century Italy,” is part of her SNSF postdoctoral research developed at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut (2022–2023) and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies/Columbia University, New York (2023–2024).