Fernando Cagide obtained his Bachelor's degree (2002) in Chemistry at the Chemistry Faculty of the University of Santiago de Compostela and his PhD (2009) in Organic Chemistry at the Chemistry Faculty at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His Ph.D.thesis was focused on the area of Organic Chemistry, and the research was related to the synthesis of natural product of marine origin such as tetrodotoxin (a toxin present in a large number of species) and alkaloids extracted from plants such as pancratistanin (present in the family of Amaryllidaceae). In 2011, He was started a post-doctoral stay at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, with a postdoctoral fellowship by FCT (SFRH/BPD/72923/2010), focused on the area of Medicinal Chemistry. During this period, he participated in the synthesis of several families of compounds and evaluation of the biological properties: as their enzymatic inhibition properties in Acetyl- and Butyrylcholinesterases (AChE and BChE, respectively) and Monoamine Oxidase (MAO-A and -B)), their cytotoxicity profile evaluated in cell-free and cell-based assays, and their antioxidant properties. Currently Fernando Cagide has a research grant under Decree-Law No. 57/2016, focused on the synthesis and evaluation of new substances with antibiotic properties. In addition, Fernando Cagide has been the laboratory co-supervisor of two Erasmus students, 11 Degree students in Chemistry and Biochemistry and from 2016 up to now, he has been invited to lecture Undergraduate and MSc classes within the curricular units: a) Medicinal Chemistry, b) Advances Advanced Methods in for Structural Analysis c). Methods of Structural Analysis Methods at FCUP. Additionally, Fernando Cagide has participated in 25 funded projects, being the researcher responsible for one of them and has attended several national and international scientific congresses: 11 Scientific Meetings, and he was a member of the organizing committee of 5 scientific international events (E-confernce on Innovation in Microbial Control (2021), VIII Meeting of the Paul Ehrlich EuroPhD Network, 2018; EpiChemBio (CM1406) and MuTaLig COST (CA15135) actions joint annual meeting 2017; 10th World Congress on Polyphenols Applications, 2016). Over the years, he was also first author/co-author of more than 37 conference abstracts, 104 Conference poster and 57 Oral presentation. Furthermore, Fernando Cagide is the author of 70 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (Free Radical Biol. Med., J. Med. Chem., Anal. Chem., Front. Chem., Redox Biol., Antioxidants, J. Enzym. Inhib. Med. Chem., Magn. Reson. Chem., Chem. Commun., RSC Adv., J. Mol. Struct., Med. Res. Rev., Sci. Rep. (Nature), Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E.-Struct Rep. Online, Expert Opin. Ther. Patents, Curr. Med. Chem., Mitochondrion and Lett. Drug Des. Discov. J. Org. Chem. Tetrahedron lett.): 13 as first author or corresponding author and 57 as coauthor and 33 are in the first quarter; 3 book chapters; and 7 patents. The citation count from Scopus is a total of 1173 (November 2024), resulting in an h-index of 21.