Raúl Fernández studied Biotechnology at the University of Oviedo, where he subsequently completed a master’s degree in Biomedicine and Molecular Oncology. He did his PhD in the Cancer Epigenetics and Nanomedicine lab led by Mario F. Fraga and Agustín F. Fernández, at CSIC. During his PhD, he applied bioinformatic techniques to study the epigenomic relationships between aging and aging-associated diseases such as cancer or neurodegeneration. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Biomedical Epigenomics Group led by Iñaki Martín Subero (IDIBAPS, Barcelona), where he investigates the impact of aging in the B-cell compartment and its relation to the development of B-cell tumors such as CLL, at the single-cell level. 

He has co-supervised multiple BSc/MSc theses, has participated in various regional and national competitive funded research projects and has been implicated in the development of several research projects and initiatives. To date, he has published 21 scientific research articles (9 first author) and 3 book chapters (1 first author), having an H-index of 10 (Scholar).