Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos

Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos is an academic affiliated with Flinders University's College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work. He holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Adelaide and has held roles including Research Fellow at the University of South Australia, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, and Lecturer positions across multiple institutions. His expertise spans experimental psychology, cognitive science, and statistical methodologies.

Education: BA in Psychology (Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 2003), MAppSc in Psychology (University of Ballarat, Australia, 2007), PhD in Experimental Psychology (University of Adelaide, Australia, 2011). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stockholm University (2014–2016).

Research focuses on embodied and artificial cognition, statistical modeling, and robust research methods. Key interests include language comprehension, cross-modal perception, machine behavior, and statistical cognition. Over 120 peer-reviewed articles and numerous grants highlight his contributions to fields like AI ethics, health informatics, and educational technology.

His work has been featured in outlets like Nature Human Behavior and Science. Awards include the IEPRS Postgraduate Research Scholarship and the Young and Innovators Researchers Program Fellowship. He serves on editorial boards for journals such as Cognitive Processing and Frontiers in Applied Mathematics.

Notable grants include projects on AI in cardiac care, machine learning for health diagnostics, and AI ethics in governance. Current roles include leading projects on AI in education and collaborative reasoning tools for defense applications.