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Fernández Lab

Impact

Impact dashboard

A snapshot of the lab's scholarly output, funding, and recognition. Citation metrics will be added once verified against Google Scholar.

250+
Peer-reviewed publications
across 8 research themes
20+
Years leading the lab
Georgia Tech, since 2004
75+
Graduate students, postdocs & staff mentored
8
Major research directions

Publications by research area

Metabolomics & Diagnostics
55
Ambient & Atmospheric-Pressure Ionization
46
Global Health & Pharmaceutical Forensics
42
Early-career research
38
Mass Spectrometry Imaging
25
Ion Mobility & Multidimensional Separations
19
Chemical Evolution & Origins of Life
17
Exercise Multi-omics (MoTrPAC)
8
Microbial Identification
5

Research funding

Federal and foundation support from the NIH, NSF, NASA, DoD, and private foundations.

Currently administered

Georgia Comprehensive Proteomics and Metabolomics Unit for MoTrPAC

NIH Common FundMPI

Deep Ovarian Cancer Metabolomics

NIH / NCIPI

Triboelectric Ambient Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Renal Cell Carcinomas

PI

Rapid Automated Biosourcing through Machine Learning (RAB-ML)

Co-I

Population-based Characterization of Metabolic Pathways to Predict Pediatric Crohn’s Disease Outcomes

NIHCo-I

NIDDK Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium (IBDGC) — Genetic Research Centers

NIH / NIDDKCo-I

NSF Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT)

NSFCo-I

Deciphering the Role of Progesterone in Ovarian Cancer Risk for BRCA-mutation Carriers

Co-I

Previous awards (selected)

  • Georgia Comprehensive Metabolomics & Proteomics Unit for MoTrPAC

    NIH / NIDDK (Common Fund) · MPI

    2017–2023
    $5,689,053 total
  • Deep Ovarian Cancer Metabolomics

    NIH / NCI (R01CA218664) · PI

    2018–2023
    $1,941,672 total
  • Lipid Biomarker Efflux from the Brain following TBI

    NIH / NINDS (R01NS101909) · MPI

    2020–2024
    $1,440,850
  • MRI: Acquisition of an Ultra-High Resolution FT-ICR Mass Spectrometer

    NSF (CHE-1726528) · PI

    2017–2020
    $1,009,201 total
  • CCI: Center for Chemical Evolution

    NSF / NASA (CHE-1504217) · Co-PI

    2015–2020
    $20M total (center)
  • ACT Consortium — Surveillance & Drug Forensic Network for Medicine Quality

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation · PI

    2008–2014
  • CAREER: Research and Education in Ambient Mass Spectrometry

    NSF (CAREER) · PI

    2007–2012
    $549,999 total
  • Towards Demonstrating Open-Ended Evolution Using Synthetic Molecule Systems

    Alfred P. Sloan Foundation · Co-I

    2021–2024
    $1,479,458 total

Recognition

2025ACS Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award (Americas)
2025Featured in Harris/Lucy’s Quantitative Chemical Analysis — “People of Analytical Chemistry”
2024Kolthoff Lecture, University of Minnesota
2024Honorary Member, Spanish Mass Spectrometry Society
2024Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award
2024ANACHEM Award, Association of Analytical Chemists
2023The Analytical Scientist Power List — Top 100 (Top 25 Mentors & Educators)
2022Regents’ Professor, University System of Georgia
2021Faces of Mass Spectrometry
2020Office of the Provost’s Emerging Leaders Program
2019M.S. Bereman Distinguished Lecture, North Carolina State University
2019Frederic LeRoy Conover Lecturer, Vanderbilt University
2017United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Group Award
2016Georgia Tech College of Sciences Faculty Mentor Award