MA-Studium an der London School of Economics and Social Sciences, London (UK) und PhD-Studium der Politikwissenschaften am European University Institute in Florenz (Italien) sowie an der University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Forschungstätigkeiten am European University Institute in Florenz (Italien) sowie an der Universität Genf
Leitung verschiedener, durch den Schweizerischen Nationalfonds (SNF) finanzierter Projekte im Bereich der direkten Demokratie sowie Koordination wissenschaftlicher Projekte zum Thema E-Partizipation
Lehre an den Universitäten Genf, Zürich sowie der ETH Zürich
Mendez, Fernando; Mendez, Mario (2017). Referendums on EU Matters : Study Brussels: European Parliament: Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs.
Serdült, Uwe; Mendez, Fernando; Harris, Maya; Su Seo, Hyeon (2016). Scaling Up Democracy with E-Collection? In: CeDem 2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2015, Danube University Krems, Austria, 18 May 2016 - 20 May 2016. s.n., 25-31.
Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas; Agathokleous, Marilena; Djouvas, Constantinos; Mendez, Fernando (2015). On the design of social voting recommendation applications International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), 24(3):1550009.
Serdült, Uwe; Germann, Micha; Mendez, Fernando; Portenier, Alicia; Wellig, Christoph (2015). Fifteen Years of Internet Voting in Switzerland: History, Governance and Use In: Teràn, Luis; Meier, Andreas . ICEDEG 2015: Second International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment. Red Hook, NY: IEEE, 149-156.
Manavopoulos, Vasilis; Mendez, Fernando; Serdült, Uwe (2015). Homophily Among VAA Users: the case of Ecuador In: Teràn, Luis; Meier, Andreas . ICEDEG 2015: Second International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment. Red Hook, NY: IEEE, 75-80.
Serdült, Uwe; Germann, Micha; Mendez, Fernando; Harris, Maja; Portenier, Alicia (2015). Who are the Internet Voters? In: Tambouris, Efthimios; Scholl, Hans Jochen; Janssen, Marijn F W H A . Electronic government and electronic participation : joint proceedings of ongoing research of IFIP EGOV and IFIP ePart 2013, 16 - 19 September 2013 in Koblenz, Germany. Amsterdam: I O S Press, 27-41.