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Bahía Blanca, Argentina |
April 8, 1957
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Nationality | Argentinian |
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Thesis | Structural Stability of Chemical Systems at Critical Regimes (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | Oktay Sinanoğlu |
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Known for | Dehydrons |
Website http://www.profarielfernandez.com/ |
Ariel Fernandez (born Ariel Fernández Stigliano, April 8, 1957) is an Argentinian–American physical chemist and pharmaceutical researcher.
Fernandez received Licentiate degrees in Chemistry (1979) and Mathematics (1980) from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. He then earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1984 with a thesis entitled Structural Stability of Chemical Systems at Critical Regimes in the lab of Oktay Sinanoğlu. His early published papers also list him as being associated with the Weizmann Institute of Science, Princeton University, and the University of California at San Diego. He was a senior researcher in the division of Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.
Fernandez has been affiliated with multiple institutions including the University of Miami, Universidad Nacional del Sur, the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the University of Chicago, Osaka University, the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Morgridge Institute for Research, and National Tsing Hua University. Fernandez held the Karl F. Hasselmann Professorship of Bioengineering at Rice University until 2011. He is a member of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina. Fernandez is listed as an editor for multiple journals published by OMICS Publishing Group. He currently is employed at a number of self-started pharmaceutical-related companies, including ProWDSciences, AF Innovation, and Ariel Fernandez Consultancy.