Fernando’s interdisciplinary background ranges from Product Design, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Sociology. His work investigates the social, technological, and political implications of Trust Design. Fernando holds a BA Product Design, an MSc Cognitive Computing, an MRes Design, as well as a PhD in Design (RCA). His design practice experiments with the use of design, art, sociology, science and technology as mediums to reconfigure processes and systems of production to question the social, cultural, ethical and political context in which they operate. His research has been published and presented internationally at conferences at MIT, the University of Cambridge, the University of Manchester, the RCA, the University of Côte d’Azur, UNISINOS Brazil, CHUV Lausanne and the Design Museum in London.