Fernando has MAppSc (University of Ballarat, 2005-2007) and PhD (University of Adelaide, 2007-2011) degrees by research in experimental psychology. He is a visiting research fellow at the School of Psychology and casual lecturer at the School of Education, both at the University of Adelaide. From November 2014 to December 2016, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University (Sweden). His research interests include the embodiment of language and emotions, cross-modality, and statistics/methodology.
