Fernando Á. Fernández-Álvarez is a postdoctoral researcher in the Marine Science Institute of Barcelona (ICM-CSIC, Spain), funded by the Beatriu de Pinós program (AGAUR, Catalonia). He obtained his Bachelor´s Degree by the University of Oviedo (2011), followed by a Master´s Degree (2012) in the Autonomous University of Madrid and a PhD thesis at the ICM-CSIC (2014–2018). He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Galway (Ireland, 2019–2021), and developed short stages in the University of Stanford (US, 2015) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan, 2023). He has participated in four oceanic cruises in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters.
Fernando develops multidisciplinary studies on cephalopod systematics, phylogenetics, trophic ecology, microbiome and development, as well the cephalopod symbionts. He is particularly interested in global scale studies covering cryptic species complexes and taxonomic-wide studies on cephalopod evolution. He pioneered the combined use of laser-capture microdissection with DNA metabarcoding for the study of the diet of tiny early stages of cephalopods. He is also skilled in live identification of cephalopods during ROV operations.
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