Fernando Nieto is an architect (ETSA Valladolid, 2004), Master of Advanced Studies in Collective Housing (ETSA Madrid, 2006) and International Doctor of Architecture in Advanced Architectural Design (ETSA Madrid, 2014, Excellent Cum Laude). He has been a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich with the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars and Artists, where he finished his doctoral thesis on housing design and theory. His work as an architect has won several awards and mentions and has been exhibited widely. He is a member of the Professional Association of Architects of Madrid (COAM) and the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA), and COAM correspondent in Finland. He does research activity through articles and conference papers and the management of the research platform HipoTesis. Since 2014 he is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Group X.