About
Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer and fact-checker based in Brazil who covers a range of STEM topics, including textile conservation, vaccine stockpiles and galaxy clusters.
Her writing has appeared in Science Magazine, the MIT Technology Review, MIT News, Stanford Engineering Magazine, Ask MIT Climate, Harvard’s GSAS Bulletin. Aside from writing, she helps academics, particularly those based outside North America and Europe, better communicate their research, and fact checks health and science misinformation for Health Feedback.
She has a master’s in science writing from MIT, a PhD in virology from Harvard, where she studied the HIV-2 reservoir, and both a bachelors in biological sciences and a teaching degree in science education from the Universidade de Brasília (UnB) in Brazil.
In July 2020, she was profiled by MIT News. You can read the piece, “Communicating the ‘beauty and complexity’ of science” here.