Full Professor in the Department of Theory of Communication, Facultad de Información & Comunicación, at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Fernando Andacht holds a Ph. D. in Communication and Information, UniversidadeFederal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, a doctorate in philosophy (Dr Phil) from Bergen University, Norway; MA in Linguistics from Ohio University; and Licenciatura en Letras from Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, Indiana University, an Alexander von Humboldt Grantee at the Arbeitsstelle für Semiotik, and a Level II Researcher of the National System of Research. He was the director of the Instituto de Comunicación-FIC (2020-2022), where he served as a full professor in the Department of Theory of Communication, Facultad de Información & Comunicación, at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay (2015-2024). His area of research encompasses media, culture, and everyday life from a Peircean semiotic perspective. While a full professor at the University of Ottawa (2006-2015), Canada, he was awarded a research grant by the SSHRC (Social Sciences & Humanities Council) of Canada (2010–2013) to study the mediated representation of the real in documentaries and television. He taught in Brazil (Graduate Program of Communication & Languages at the UniversidadeTuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil), in Chile (Postítulo en Semiótica, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile). At present he is a professor of the PhD Program in Semiotics at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Córdoba, Argentina. He has published twelve books and more than 100 scholarly articles and chapters on the semiotic analysis of media and society. His last book is Signos del Imaginario Cotidiano. Una guia para interpretar nuestra mediática (Planeta/Paidós, 2024)