Fernández Lab · Georgia Institute of Technology
Measuring the molecules of life, health & Life’s origins.
The Fernández Lab develops new mass spectrometry instrumentation and metabolomics workflows to reveal the molecular basis of disease, the chemistry of our origins, and the medicines that keep the world healthy.
The Lab
A measurement-science engine for the life sciences
We create new analytical tools and put them to work on problems that matter. From ambient ionization and ion mobility to mass spectrometry imaging and AI-driven metabolomics, our research spans the full arc from instrumentation to biological and clinical discovery.
Facundo M. Fernández is the Regents’ Professor and Vasser-Woolley Endowed Professor in Bioanalytical Chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His group develops mass spectrometry instrumentation and metabolomics methods spanning ambient ionization, ion mobility, and mass spectrometry imaging to probe human health and the chemistry of life’s origins. He is the faculty advisor to Georgia Tech’s Systems Mass Spectrometry Core, co-directs the Atlanta NIH MoTrPAC chemical analysis site, and served as interim Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
Research
Where we focus
Eight interconnected areas, unified by a single idea: that better chemical and biological measurements unlock better science.
Selected work
Highly cited & recent
A few highlights. See the full, always-current record on Google Scholar.
Most cited
- Analytical Chemistry2011
Ambient sampling/ionization mass spectrometry: applications and current trends
- Chemical Reviews2013
Mass spectrometry: recent advances in direct open air surface sampling/ionization
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases2006
Counterfeit anti-infective drugs
Recent
- 2026Food Chemistry
Dynamic remodeling in lipophilic metabolites during Coffea canephora maturation: a lipidomic study
- 2026American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
Sexually distinct multi-omic responses to progressive endurance exercise training in the rat lung
- 2026bioRxiv
A Multimodal Workflow for Spatial Metabolic Neighborhood Mapping in Neural Rosette Cultures
News
From the lab
Eric Gier delivers a keynote at the 2026 Waters Imaging Summit
PhD student Eric Gier gave a keynote on the lab's spatial-metabolomics platforms (cyclic ion mobility paired with multireflecting time-of-flight MS) at the Waters Imaging Summit in Milford, MA.
The lab at ACS Spring 2026 in Atlanta
Group members presented across ACS Spring 2026, hosted in the lab's home city of Atlanta, with talks spanning oxylipin isomer separations and the chemistry of life's origins.
Ziqin Ni receives a 2026 Spring Nerem Conference Award
Ziqin Ni, a recent postdoctoral fellow in the lab, was recognized with a 2026 Spring Nerem Conference Award.
Join us
Be part of the team building the future of measurement science
We welcome curious, driven graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates from chemistry, engineering, biology, and computation. If you want to invent instruments and discover biology, we want to hear from you.