Welcome to Louis Fernando's website
Here is my CV, which will tell you a bit about my interests, experiences and publications:
- but before, here are my lovely Students
- a picture of my familyand my friends...
and some places that are important for me in the countries where I have lived:
Canada, St.Petersburg, Stockholm, Switzerland, Germany, USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Azerbaijan and soon, the Ukraine (my appartment)
scroll below to view my CV
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WORK EXPERIENCE | |
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2007- Pechersk International School Kiev Secondary School Counselor, TOK Teacher
2005-2007 The International School of Azerbaijan Baku DP, MYP Psychology, Humanities, Languages teacher, coordinator for Aproaches to Learning
2004-2005 Benedict School Münster English, Spanish, French, Latin Teacher
2002-2004 Anglo-American School and ABC Int’l St. Petersburg English and Music Teacher
In parallel, post-doctoral researcher in Music History and Aesthetics at the St.Petersburg State Conservatory, piano studies with Vasiliy Alexievich Kalmikov
2000-2002 American College of Switzerland Leysin Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology
in parallel, Geneva Business Institute Geneva professor of Management Psychology and
1999-2000 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique Lyon, Paris Guest researcher
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1998-1999 Karolinska Institute (houses the Noble Institute) Stockholm
Guest researcher, Areas: Systems Neurobiology, Comparative Neurology
1996–1998 Institut de Biologie Cellulaire, Faculty of Medicine Lausanne Teacher and Researcher
1993-1997 Institut für Anatomie und Spezielle Embyologie Fribourg Teacher and Researcher
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DIPLOMAS AND other courses of study | |
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2002-present (in progress) Ph.D. Philosopy/Music - Universität Münster topic "Musical Aesthetics in Adorno and Sartre"
2000 Nobel Institute post-doc Developmental Neurobiology 1998 Universitaet Freiburg Ph.D, Neurophysiology, Cognitive Psychology 1993 Université de Fribourg M.A., bilingual, Summa cum laude in Philosophy, & Experimental Psychology (Trinity College) B.A. (DoubleHons.) Greek, Latin, Philosophy, German
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Computer skills | |
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Systems, languages: Word, Excel, Powerpoint (Advanced)
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Languages | |
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Fluent: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian Experienced teacher of Spanish, English, and French
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SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY PUBLICATIONS
· Scientific article published by Oxford University Press.
· Paper 'Our Brain and Our Mind', Faculty of Medicine, Debrecen, Hungary
· L. Murillo, "Wo im Gehirn steckt die Phantasie", paper delivered at the Bern Week of the Brain, 9-18 March 2000
· LITERARY TRANSLATIONS
· L.Murillo, Stefan Zweig "Erzählungen", translated from the original German as "Cuentos", Ediciones Fontamara, Mexico. – awarded special prize by the National Counsel for Arts and Culture.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERshIP
International Baccalaureate Organization - Assistant examiner in Psychology
American Academy of Political Science
European Society of Philosophy and Psychology
OTHER INTERESTS
AESTHETICS AND ART HISTORY:
Piano Literature: Bach, Shostakovich, Chopin,
Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert
former piano teachers: Tanya Tkachenko, Vasily Alexievich Kalmikov,
Adela Bikilova
Art History - particularly Russian Art, Impressionism, and Van Gogh
Architecture
Cinema History. Teacher: Freddy Buache - Swiss Film Archive Lausanne
favourite directors: Bunuel, Woody Allen, Wong Kar Wai, Rohmer, Siodmak, Antonioni, Coppola
German Literature and Philosophy: especially Adorno, Kant, Kafka, Freud, Mann, and Zweig
German Sociology: Marx, Weber, Frankfurter Schule: Adorno, Habermas
PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
Great Books and Student Centered teaching (Phillips Exeter Academy and the Harkness method), and
applying Cognitive Neuroscience to Teaching
BIO-INSPIRED SYSTEMS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AVIATION