Introducing the University of Birmingham's Institute of Advanced Studies: Development and Plans for the Future

Professor Malcolm Press, Director of the University of Birmingham's Institute of Advanced Studies, will give a presentation on the development of the institute in its first year of existence and plans for the future on April 11, at 15 pm, at the IEA-USP.

Images will be displayed as well as a video about the functioning of the institute. Press will be accompanied by the Director of International Development and Mobility of the university, Andrea Edwards. The event will be held in English and simultaneously translated for the Brazilian spectators. The coordination will be in charge on the Director of the IEA-USP, Martin Grossmann.

In addition to directing the IAS, Malcolm Press is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Life and Environmental Sciences. He graduated from the University of London in 1980 with a first class honours degree in Environmental Science before going on to complete a PhD in Physiological Ecology at the University of Manchester in 1984.  Following a five year period as a postdoctoral research associate at the University College London he returned to Manchester in 1989 as a lecturer prior to moving to Sheffield in 1994.  He was appointed to a Chair in Ecology in 1997.  He spent six years as Head of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences and University Director of Research for the Environment.  Whilst at Sheffield he was a member of the University’s Council.