IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning

On Wednesday 5th February we will be hosting an IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning, where we will be joined by IAS Residential Fellow Dr Carla Maria dos Santos Filipe Baptista, and IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Petr Siegl.

Please feel free to book using the button below, to come along and join us for an informal in-person gathering at International House with coffee and cakes to meet our Fellows, all are welcome.

Dr Carla Maria dos Santos Filipe Baptista, University Nova of Lisbon

Carla Baptista is an Associate Professor in Communication Sciences at NOVA FSCH in Lisbon and a senior researcher at ICNOVA. She teaches Media History and Journalism Ethics in the undergraduate course and Media, Journalism and Technology in the Communication Sciences Master. She is also a freelance journalist and a member of the editorial board of the Portuguese edition of the French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique. She is the author of several books, including Journalists, from the Craft to the Profession (2007), Living Memories of Journalists (2009) and Death and Resurrection of Political Journalism (2011).

Dr Petr Siegl, Graz University of Technology

Petr Siegl obtained his PhD in 2011 jointly from the Czech Technical University in Prague (Czechia) and the University Paris 7 (France). He was a postdoc at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 2012 and at the University of Bern (Switzerland) in 2013-2018 where he received in particular the Ambizione grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Before his current position in Graz, he worked as a lecturer at the Queen’s University Belfast (UK) in 2018-2021. His research interests are in functional analysis and spectral theory with an emphasis on non-self-adjoint differential operators (e.g. Schrödinger, Dirac, wave) stemming from problems of mathematical physics.