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Fernanda obtained her PhD from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile under the supervision of Prof. Alejandro Toro-Labbe, focusing on the formulation and application of theoretical frameworks to characterize chemical processes. After graduation, she joined the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Uppsala University to pursue training in biomolecular modeling. In December 2015, she moved to the University of Oxford with a Royal Society Newton Fellowship, working in the area of computational organic chemistry, and joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in January 2017 through a Chancellor's Fellowship. In October 2018, she returned to Oxford to take a faculty appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Fernanda has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and edited a book on the empirical valence bond approach. She has received several accolades including the L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science award and the Marie Curie Career Grant.
University of Oxford • Oxford, UK
Teaching and research in the Department of Chemistry focusing on computational organic chemistry.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.