He is an NIH R00 fellow, a Bruker Daltonics Inc. Life Science division fellow, and the Director of the Advanced Mass Spectrometry Program at FIU. Dr. Fernandez-Lima’s group works on the development of new-generation mass spectrometry tools for the identification and localization of disease markers in biological tissues associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Parkinson’s Disease. He has authored a large number of peer-reviewed scientific publications and actively presents his work at national and international conferences.