Josep Samitier Martí

Josep Samitier Martí, President of the Catalan Association of Research Centres (ACER) and Director of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, Spain.
Full Professor of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering. Electronics Department. Faculty of Physics. University of Barcelona (UB). Group leader of the Nanobioengineering Group at IBEC. EIT Health Supervisory Board member. Coordinator of the Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (NanomedSpain). President of the Catalan Association of Research Centres (Associació Catalana d'Entitats de Recerca - ACER). Spanish delegate in the Working Party on Biotecnology (OECD). Permanent member of Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC).
In 2003, he was awarded the City of Barcelona prize in the Technological Innovation category.