After being awarded a Ph.D. from the TU Berlin with a dissertation on Raphael in 2002 and nominated university lecturer at the University of Bern with a study on the Dresden Gemäldegalerie in the 18th century in 2008, Tristan Weddigen became assistant professor at the University of Lausanne in 2008 and full professor for history of early modern art at the University of Zurich in 2009. In May 2017 Tristan Weddigen was appointed Director and Scientific Member at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History - in Rome/Italy.