Full professor of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. Since 2009 he has been the director of the advanced materials for energy area of the Energy Research Institute of Catalonia, IREC, and since the end of 2015, he has been appointed as director of this public research institute. Previously he has been Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona, director of the Department of Electronics of this university, head of studies in Electronic Engineering and co-coordinator of the interuniversity master's between the University of Barcelona and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia of the master on Engineering in Energy. Initially, his activities were devoted to electronic materials, electronic devices and electronic engineering. Currently, he is now focused on the introduction of renewable energy and the environmental impact of energy. Likewise, he is specialized in energy conversion processes at the nanoscale and he is focused on the use of these processes for energy storage and the production of solar, synthetic fuels and added-value chemicals for the replacement of fossil sources. He is also involved in the deployment of electric mobility based on batteries or on hydrogen as well as in smart energy networks for sustainable cities and societies.