Carlos Fernandes (CF) graduated in Chemistry (2011) and finished his Master’s in chemistry in 2012 at the Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto (FCUP). In 2014, CF was awarded for an international PhD fellowship by Foundation for Science and Technology
(FCT). In 2018, CF was awarded with the European Doctorate title, and his PhD research was recognized by the prestigious Paul
Ehrlich MedChem Network (http://www.pehrlichmedchem.eu/) as one of the best European PhD thesis in the Medicinal Chemistry
field.
Afterwards, CF was awarded with a Post-doctoral fellowship (2018) and hired by FCUP as principal researcher of a project funded
by FCT (2019). In 2020, CF was hired as a doctorate researcher in a pharmaceutic/cosmetic company (MitoTAG), where he was
responsible for the production of antioxidant compounds. In 2021, he was awarded with a 6-year contract in the IV call of
Scientific Employment Stimulus funded by FCT (2021.04016.CEECIND). From 2020 up to now, CF has been lecturing BSc and MSc
classes within the curricular units at the FCUP and during the years of 2022 and 2023, he was invited by FCUP as assistant
professor. He is a member of the Researchers Committee of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, FCUP (2023-now) and
also an integrated member of the CIQUP-IMS (Chemistry Research Center-Institute of Molecular Sciences) research unit.
He was a guest editor of a special issues of Molecules and actively collaborates as a referee in several journals in the Medicinal
Chemistry and Nanomedicine areas.
Carlos Fernandes's contributions to the research community and society are highlighted through his publications in peer-reviewed
and open-access scientific journals, including 42 published papers (5 as the corresponding author) and 9 conference proceedings.
Furthermore, he is co-author of 6-chapter books. Around 90% of papers were published in Q1 journals, receiving a total of
1148 citations, yielding an h-index of 17 (Source: ISI Web of knowledge). Several of his works have gathered scientific distinctions,
such as the IACOBUS-papers Awards in 2019, 2021 and 2024 for his papers published in Molecules (2019), Eur J Med Chem (2021)
and J Med Chem (2024).
