Fernando Nogueira graduated in Physics from the University of Coimbra in 1990 and was awarded the PhD by the same university in 1999. His current research interests reside in the discovery of new materials using ab-initio inverse design or materials' discovery tools. He was involved in the development of scientific software: a relativistic atomic solver and pseudo-potential generator (APE), and a code that solves the (time-dependent) Kohn-Sham equations in order to obtain the response of an electronic system to an external perturbation (octopus). He held several teaching positions at the University of Coimbra since 1989. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Coimbra. He was a member of the now defunct research centres Centro de Física Teórica (1989-1998) and Centro de Física Computacional (1998-2015), both at the University of Coimbra. He lead the Condensed Matter Physics group in the latter centre from 2002 until 2015. Since January 2015 he is a member of CFisUC - Centro de Física da Universidade de Coimbra. He was the PI in 3 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia research grants and participated in more than 25 of such projects. He has authored 40 papers, 7 conference proceedings, 1 book chapter and edited 3 books published on Springer's Lecture Notes in Physics series. He delivered more than 60 communications in conferences (9 of which as an invited speaker) and lectured on 9 advanced courses in international schools and workshops. He organized 25 scientific conferences and workshops and directed 6 post-doc, 3 PhD, 17 MSc, and 5 BSc students. He was the director of Portuguese Physics Olympiad from 2007 to 2018 and lead the Portuguese team in the International Physics Olympiad and the Ibero-american Physics Olympiad from 2000 to 2017. According to ISI Web of Knowledge, he was cited 1308 times and his h-index is 18. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 25 and he was cited 4798 times. His ORCiD ID is 0000-0003-3125-3660.