
Professor of the former Department of Microbiology of the University of Barcelona and also linked to the Biodiversity Research Institute of the UB (IRBio), he is an expert in Ecogenetics and one of the main promoters of microbial ecology in our country. He has been awarded the Narcís Monturiol Prize for scientific merit by the Generalitat of Catalonia (2000), is one of the founders of the Spanish Society of Biotechnology and has carried out far-reaching studies on the first stages of microorganism communities in our planet from the perspective of Gaia theory, or science of Earth physiology.