Welcome to Robinson College Visiting Baxandall Fellows, Professor Amos Lapidoth (October - December 2025) and Dr Terri Ochiagha (January - June 2026).

Professor Amos Lapidoth is Professor of Information Theory at ETH Zurich.

Research Interests:
Amos is interested in using Information Theory to understand the fundamental limits on reliable communications over various channels (e.g. Fading channels, Optical channels, and Finite-State channels); in understanding the different notions of channel capacity (e.g. Shannon capacity, Zero-Error capacity, and Erasures-Only capacity);  in the way feedback affects said notions; and in multi-terminal information theory.

Teaching Interests:
Digital Communications and Information Theory.

Other interests:
Theatre, hiking, proving or disproving the conjecture that there is more to England than London, Oxford, and Cambridge.

The Baxandall Visiting Fellow Lecture 
Lecturer: Professor Amos Lapidoth
Title: “Defective memories: eating your cake and having it”
Date: Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Event Time: 6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Place: The Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Grange Road, Cambridge
More details and booking form to follow, save the date!

Dr Terri Ochiagha is a Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures at the University of Edinburgh and a Non-Resident Fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard and a world-leading scholar on the work of the acclaimed ‘father of African literature,’ Chinua Achebe. She is also passionate about English modernist literature and the genre of biography more broadly. Dr. Ochiagha’s first scholarly monograph, Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite (2015) won the inaugural Fage & Oliver Prize for the most outstanding book on Africa in 2016. She is currently working on Chinua Achebe: A Life at the Crossroads, the author’s first full-length biography, which will be published by Princeton University Press, and is editing a volume of 23 essays, Achebe in Context, for Cambridge University Press. In July 2025, she convened a British Academy Conference, Achebe Redivivus, at All Souls College, University of Oxford.

Dr Ochiagha took up a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in September 2025. In the past two years, she has received the support of the British Academy (Small Grant and Conference Grant schemes), Princeton University Press (Global Equity Grant), as well as departmental funding. She was also the McMillan-Stewart Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, in Spring 2025, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, in Trinity Term 2025. 
 

Our thanks to Leigh Baxandall for funding this Visiting Fellowship.