Anton V. Sidoroff-Dorso, is a Moscow-based linguist and psychologist, a founding board member of IASAS, a Senior Teacher at Moscow Pedagogical State University Founder and science monitor of the Russian Synaesthesia Community He received a full specialist degree in linguistics and language acquisition, and studied for a post-graduation degree (Candidate of Sciences) in psychology at Moscow Pedagogical State University, with a dissertation on individual differences in people with synaesthesia. His research focuses on general psychological and neurocognitive aspects of synaesthesia, synaesthetic mechanisms as viewed in the frameworks of cultural-historical psychology and cognitive anthropology. Additionally, he is the co-editor of the Leonardo Bibliography list: Synaesthesia in Art and Science of the interdisciplinary journal Leonardo (MIT). He has served on the Board of the Artecittà Foundation as its International Coordinator since 2012, and is a member of the editorial board of the international Synesthesia Journal (Artecitta). He also founded the Russian Synaesthesia Community and monitors its web-resource synaesthesia.ru. and initiated and manages the data-base of Russian-speaking synaesthetes (now approx. 800 people). He translated and adapted the Russian-language version of the worldwide multilingual online tests of the Synesthesia Battery and the Consistency Test of Synaesthesia (MatLab Syntools).
He is also a co-author of “An anthropology of synaesthesia”, author and developer of Synaesthesia Quotient and a related multi-scale test battery. Additionally, he assisted and participated as key speaker in the production of science documentaries on the senses and synaesthesia. In 2019, as International coordinator, Anton Sidoroff-Dorso organized the 2nd IASAS International Conference in Moscow, Russia.