Fernanda Duarte she/her
Prof, University of Oxford
Fernanda is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Her position commenced in October 2018 and followed appointments at the University of Edinburgh (Chancellor's Fellow), Oxford (Newton Fellow) and Uppsala (PDRA).
Fernanda has received various accolades; including the L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science award (2009), Pre-doctoral Fulbright scholarship (2010), Marie Curie Career Grant (2015), the Newton Fellowship (2015), MGMS Frank Blaney Award from the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society (2020), OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2021) and Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2021).
She currently leads a diverse team of researchers. Their main research interests centre on predicting chemical reactivity in the condensed phase, combining classical and quantum approaches and machine-learning models. Her team has developed computational methods to understand (bio)chemical reactivity and guide molecular design.