Narcis Fernandez Fuentes

Narcis Fernandez-Fuentes is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University. He was previously a Lecturer at the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine (2007-2011) and a Research Associate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2004-2007).

He holds an M.Sc. in Biotechnology and a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. His work spans Bioinformatics, Structural Bioinformatics, and Plant Bioinformatics, focusing on protein structure prediction, biomolecular interactions, and computational approaches to plant breeding.

• Protein design and structure-to-function relationships
• Peptide-based modulation of protein interactions
• Genomic analysis of abiotic stress responses in plants
• SNPs modeling and functional impact assessment

Recent articles highlight expertise in computational peptide design for SARS-CoV-2, ulvan lyase characterization, and structural modeling of inflammasomes and protein families. His grants include projects funded by the Welsh Government, BBSRC, and Covestro.

• Marie Curie Training Fellowship
• EMBO and FEBS Short Term Fellowships
• Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Fellowship