Devon Schiller, BFA, MA is a biological, cognitive, and health semiotician. His scholarship centers around the pragmatist semioethics of behavioral science. In particular, he focuses on dynamic human facial behavior, its modelling, and measurement in the equipped cognition of our epistemic practices across contemporary and historical psychology.

Currently, Schiller is a doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna, Austria, studies for which he was awarded a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Schiller received a MA, Advanced in new media art history from Danube University in Krems, Austria in 2017 and a BFA in art history and studio painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, United States in 2013.

To advance his expertise on the semiotics of the face, he trained in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) at the University of California, Berkeley, United States in 2015 and at I&G Management in Milan, Italy in 2023; the Neuropsychological Gesture Coding System (NEUROGES) at the German Sports University Cologne, Germany in 2017; automated facial behavior analysis at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany in 2017–2018; and the forensic science of facial reconstruction at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, United States in 2022.

His research is published in Biosemiotics, Chinese Semiotics Studies, Cybernetics and Human Knowing, the International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric, The MIT Press’s Leonardo, Sign System Studies, and Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, among other journals and volumes. He presently is preparing an edited volume Victoria Welby and Her Significs: Signs, A Woman’s View:, which he is co-editing with Susan Petrilli (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) as a part of the Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences book series (Springer Nature, 2026), and a monograph Face Time: A Biosemiotic Pragmatism of Facial Chronometry (Springer Nature, 2027). 

Schiller recently was recognized with The Jesper Hoffmeyer Award for Promising Young Scholars in Biosemiotics (2025).