Fernanda Pérez-Verdugo, Ph.D.
Email: Fernanda.PerezVerdugo@ist.ac.at, fer20mc@gmail.com
Address: Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
Email: Fernanda.PerezVerdugo@ist.ac.at, fer20mc@gmail.com
Address: Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
I am a NOMIS-ISTA postdoctoral fellow working together with Anđela Šarić and Edouard Hannezo, at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). I am interested in understanding the physical mechanism driving essential functions in living matter. In my current research, I use methods from soft active matter to unravel mechanism driving complex dynamics observed in multi-cellular systems and mechanically adaptive networks.
Academic appointments:
(2025-...) NOMIS-ISTA Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Supervisors: Anđela Šarić, Edouard Hannezo
(2022-2025) Postdoctoral researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Physics, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Supervisor: Shiladitya Banerjee
Education:
(2017-2021) Ph.D. in Physics, Universidad de Chile
FCFM, Department of Physics, Santiago, Chile
Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter
Supervisor: Rodrigo Soto
Thesis: Statistical properties of a non-polarized active tissues
(2013-2016) BS.c. in Physics, Universidad de Chile
FCFM, Department of Physics, Santiago, Chile