Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) since 1993. Teaching activities in Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering. Coordinator of the Biotechnology Doctoral Program at UAB.  His research activity is focussed on Regenerative Life Support Systems in Space for human long-term missions and Animal Cell Technology to produce biopharmaceuticals, recombinant vaccines and vectors for gene therapy. Overall Manager of the MELiSSA Pilot Plant a joint facility of UAB and ESA (European Space Agency), for the demonstration and integration of Life Support technologies. Author of 135 papers in JCR journals, 4 patents, 9 book chapters and advisor of 43 completed PhD thesis. Coordinator of the ESACT International Course on Animal Cell Technology. He served as Vice Rector of UAB, President of the Spanish Society of Biotechnology and President of the Blood and Tissue Bank of Barcelona. Currently, he is the President of the European Federation of Biotechnology and member of the Executive Board of the European Society for the Advancement of Cell Technology.