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Welcome

Hello there! I'm Carla, a professor at the Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil.

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Welcome to my homepage.

I am a physicist, historian of science, and writer.

My research focuses on quantum gravity, the history of 20th-century physics, and science communication.

About

About

Carla Rodrigues Almeida graduated in Mathematics (2010) at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil. She has a master's degree in Mathematics (2012) with a dissertation on Geometry and Topology and a doctorate in Physics (2017) with a thesis on Quantum Cosmology, both obtained at UFES. She was a Junior Post-doctoral researcher at the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF) (2017- 2018), a visiting post-doc at Department I of the Institute Max Planck for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, Germany, and an assistant researcher at the Max Planck Independent Research Group  'Historical Epistemology of The Final Theory Program' (MPIWG and Albert Einstein Institute). Carla was the first International Researcher on the internalization program at the Kulturwissenschaftiliches Institut (KWI) in Essen, Germany.

 

Back in Brazil in 2021, Carla was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo (IFUSP), where she joined the Group of Theory and History of Contemporary Science (TeHCo). She acted as a visiting professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) and is currently an adjunct professor at the Department of General Physics at the Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). 

Contact

Contact

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Carla Rodrigues Almeida

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              cralmeida00[at]gmail.com

              carlarodrigues[at]ufba.br

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Institutional address:

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              Instituto de Física da Universidade Federal da Bahia

              Campus Universitário de Ondina

              Ondina, Salvador - BA, Brazil

               Zip Code: 40210-340

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