Anna Luiza Coli, postdoctoral fellow of the IEAT Darcy Ribeiro Chair program: Sovereignty, Education and Politics.
Photo: Fabio Amaral – IEAT/UFMG

Researcher Anna Luiza Coli, a graduate of the UFMG Philosophy graduate program, is the first postdoctoral fellow at the UFMG Institute of Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies.

During her participation in the IEAT Darcy Ribeiro Chair: Sovereignty, Education and Politics, Anna Coli will have the opportunity to work with other researchers affiliated with the IEAT for a period of one year. For her, the creation of collaboration networks between researchers from different areas of knowledge is urgent in order to face the greatest challenges of our time.

“In the few weeks that I have been visiting the institute’s physical facilities, I have already been able to see how important it is to have a physical space that can help people move away from their usual areas of activity. This is where the shift in perspective and openness to other systems of thought begins. An ecosystem of researchers from the most diverse areas of training and theoretical perspectives creates privileged conditions for dialogue and reflection beyond disciplinary limitations. I cannot even imagine in what other context such distinct and highly qualified perspectives would come together to debate and reflect, in an effort to build a way to face the current challenges,” he highlights.

Anna Luiza Coli has extensive experience as a researcher. Initially trained in Philosophy, the researcher holds a master’s degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from UFMG and also from the European Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophie program, with a focus on German and French phenomenology. Her doctorate was completed in 2021 as a joint supervision between Bergische Universität Wuppertal, in Germany, and Charles University Prague, in the Czech Republic.

She also conducted postdoctoral research at two institutions: first, at the State University of Londrina (UEL), where she co-founded the Phenomenology Research Center, and also at UFMG, as a CAPES-PrInt fellow, working on the creation of the Democracy and Disinformation Studies Network (REDD), currently linked to the IEAT Research Groups program. Anna Coli is a member of research groups linked to contemporary aesthetics and philosophical thought in the humanities. Her topics of interest include phenomenology, disinformation, artificial intelligence, aesthetics, and philosophy of art.