Fernanda Saldívar holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from UNAM, where she also completed her B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and her M.Sc. in Chemical Sciences. She carried out research stays at the University of Florence (Italy) and the University of Concepción (Chile). Her doctoral work in the DIFACQUIM group focused on designing virtual chemical libraries for compounds with potential antidiabetic activity. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Obesity Research at Tecnologico de Monterrey.