Zuleika Murat is Associate Professor of History of Medieval Art at the University of Padova, Department of Cultural Heritage. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC StG project "SenSArt - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy. Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th century)" (2021-2026), and of the Fare project "SIDME - Sensory Impairment and Disability in Medieval Europe: Inclusive Approaches for Studying the Experience of Art" (2022-2027).

She obtained her PhD in History of Art at the University of Padua in 2013; since then, she has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (2013-2014), a Research Fellow at the University of Padova (2014-2016), and Principal Investigator of a two-year multidisciplinary project also based at the University of Padova (2018-2020).

Her main research interests concern the visual, material and devotional culture of medieval Europe, with a special focus on the thirteenth-fifteenth centuries in the North Italian and British contexts. In this framework, she has worked in particular on the relationship between art and liturgy; gender issues; works and contexts of domestic devotion; courtly art in Padua and Venice; identity issues; paradigms of art experience in medieval consumers.

Zuleika has published extensively on these subjects. Her most important publications include the monograph "Guariento. Pittore di corte, maestro del naturale" (Silvana Editoriale, 2016), the edited volumes "English Alabaster Carvings and Their Cultural Contexts" (Boydell and Brewer, 2019) and "Il Patriarcato di Aquileia. Identità, Liturgia e Arte, secc. V-XV" (Viella, 2021). She is also the author of several articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals (including "Jacopo di Paolo e il codice del ‘De viris illustribus’ della Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek di Darmstadt (Ms. 101)";"The Tomb of the Beato Pacifico in the Basilica dei Frari: Personal Devotion or Public Propaganda?"; "Leather manufacturing and circulating models in the Middle Ages: from a Byzantine patena in Halberstadt to a Veneto-Cretan Icon in Ljubljana"), essays in edited collections (including "Contextualizing Alabasters in their immersive environment. The ‘ancona d’allabastro di diverse figure’ of the Novalesa Abbey: meaning and function"; "'Rappresentare la ‘Natura Incorrotta’: casse reliquiario e corpi santi a Venezia fra XIII e XV secolo"; "Il Paradiso dei Carraresi. Propaganda politica e magnificenza dinastica nelle pitture di Guariento a Sant’Agostino"), and catalogue entries.

She is a member of the Governing Council of the ‘Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca di Filosofia Medievale “Carlo Giacon” - CIRFIM’, and a member of the 'Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padova', the the ‘Istitituto Pio Paschini per la Storia Religiosa in Friuli’ (Udine), and of ‘AcademiaNet - the expert network and database for outstanding female academics’, upon nomination and invitation from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Zuleika teaches modules on "Visual and Material Culture in Medieval Europe" (MA Degree in History of Art) and on "Making Art in Medieval Italy" (BA degree in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Studies).

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