Fernán Federici
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- Academic unit
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology UC
- Lines of Research
- Open technologies
- Multicellular patterns
- Cell-free biology
- DNA assembly
- Summary
Fernan studied two years of Engineering and three years of Biology.
He worked one year in the laboratory of Alvarez-Buylla (UNAM) before moving to Cambridge to do a PhD in Biological Sciences in the laboratory of Jim Haseloff.
All his education has been supported by the free education system of Argentina and international scholarships from the JP II Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
He also works at the iBio Millennium Institute and OpenPlant.
His group promotes open technologies for bioengineering, science and education, members of the group are part of the open technology movements GOSH, ReClone and TECNOx.
- Degree in Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004, Chile.
- D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Cambridge, 2009, United Kingdom.