Pablo S. Fernández, Prof. PhD.
Pablo S. Fernández is a full time professor in the Agronomic Engineering Department, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, where he leads the group of Food Safety and Preservation.
His research career has focussed on microbiological food safety, quantitative microbial risk assessment and mathematical modelling. He accounts for more than 30 years of experience in research, leading and taking part in over 40 research projects and contracts. During time, Pablo produced over 140 scientific publications in the field of microbiological food safety. This activity led to the supervision of 11 PhD thesis, acting as invited speaker in conferences, keynote lectures and courses in application of biological risk assessment principles worldwide. He has extensive experience in management of research as Vice-rector of Research and Innovation (2012-2015) and as Director of the Doctoral School in his University (2015-2020). He is also the President of the specialized group (Food Microbiology) of the Spanish Society of Microbiology, since 2024. An important part of his activity has been the development of regulatory science, meaning, the use of scientific publications to improve the regulations related to food and feed in the Spanish and European health regulatory bodies. Pablo has collaborated as an expert of the European Food Safety Authority and of the Spanish Agency of Food Safety and Nutrition.
