Fernando joined Nature Research in 2020 as the Chief Editor for Nature Computational Science. He received his PhD in Computer Science from New York University in 2018, and also worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the same institution. He conducted research in various areas, including scientific data management, provenance management and analytics, large-scale data analytics, data mining, computational reproducibility, and data visualization. He is very interested in how different disciplines use computational methods and resources to address challenging problems.