Raquel M. Fernández is a geneticist in the Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Genetics, and Reproduction Unit at Virgen del Rocío University Hospital in Seville, Spain. She holds a degree in Pharmacy and began her research career in Clinical Genetics in 2000, defending her doctoral thesis in 2004. After a period as a postdoctoral researcher, she started her clinical practice in 2009, specializing in the molecular diagnosis of hereditary diseases.
Since 2005, she has been part of the teaching staff of the Master’s Degree in Biomedical Research at the University of Seville, where she teaches the course "Introduction to Medical Genetics and Genomics." She has also served as a lecturer in the Master’s Degree in Assisted Human Reproduction, teaching the course "Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis."
Raquel M. Fernández has participated in 22 publicly funded research projects, three of them as principal investigator, and has authored 82 indexed scientific publications. She is a member of the Spanish Association of Human Genetics (AEGH) and the Center for Biomedical Research Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER). Since 2023, she has been a member of the Nephrogenetics Committee at Virgen del Rocío University Hospital.