Fernanda is the elected Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association. Previously, she held the Vice-Chair position of the MCAA Executive Committee (2020-2022) and was the Chair of the MCAA Policy WG (2017-2019). She has also been a member of the MSCA Advisory Group (2017-2020) and currently co-chairs the EU Science Diplomacy Alliance.

Professionally, Fernanda accumulates over two decades of international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral research activity. She holds a PhD in Developmental Biology and was later awarded an MSCA Individual Fellowship grant for pursuing her career on the frontiers of fundamental and applied research. She is currently responsible for managing clinical research on a rare disease at a children’s hospital in France.