Fernandes is the coordinator of the Centre for Social and Economic Research at the Faculty of Economics, Agostinho Neto University. His current research interests include (but is not limited to) capitalist transformation in Africa using the political settlement framework. He is soon to publish a book on Covid-19 in Angola and the need to rethink the role of the state. On the side Fernandes runs the non-profit project Oportunidades para Jovens em Angola.