Fernando joined the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) in 2014. 

He provides professional services leadership on all aspects of development and implementation of multiple research projects across the Informatics Theme for the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the IoPPN. He also supports the Head of Department, Professor Richard Dobson, in the management and governance of his portfolio of grants, including major European programmes.

Fernando is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine, working under the supervision of Dr Alex Dregan. He is a member of King’s Psychiatry, Nursing and Midwifery Research Ethics Panel and holds a visiting appointment at University College London (UCL).

Research interests

• Citizen Science
• Health Inequalities
• Socio-legal Perspectives of Health
• Approaches to Interdisciplinarity