Tasos Zembylas‘ holds a PhD in philosophy and completed his habilitation in Cultural Institution Studies in 2003. From 1999 onwards, he was employed at the Institute for Cultural Management and Cultural Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 2010, he relocated to the Institute for Music Sociology, and since 2021 he has been working at the Artistic Research Center at the same university. For several years, he served on the board of the Research Network Sociology of Arts at the European Sociological Association, the Professional Association for Cultural Management Research, and the Implicit Knowledge Research Network. The primary focus of his research is the close connection between artistic and social practices, as well as between the organization of cultural production and institutional structures. Moreover, he undertakes research in the domain of epistemics of artistic creative processes, and on to public cultural funding.