Professor Maribel Fernández

Maribel Fernández holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Université Paris-Saclay (Paris XI), and Computing degrees from ESLAI (Universidad Nacional de Lujan, Argentina) and Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She is a professor of Computer Science at King’s College London and currently Deputy Head of the Department of Informatics.

She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, member of the board of the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems and (since 2023) President of the European Association for Computer Science Logic.

Her main areas of research are programming languages, computing models and cybersecurity. Her interests go beyond the classical models of computation that originated the current computational architectures: she also investigates new models of computation inspired by biochemical processes, by interactions of agents and by quantum mechanics.