Position: Director of the center

• Degree in Physics and PhD in Physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
• Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) professor at ICFO
• Previously University Professor in Theoretical Quantum Physics, University  of Innsbruck, Austria and  Group Leader and Deputy Managing Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
• ERC Starting Grant (2013) and ERC Synergy Grant (2020)  recipient
• His research group proposes, models, and optimizes experiments aimed at exploring whether there is a limit to mass and complexity for the unambiguous observation of quantum phenomena.

Nuria Duffo (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1996. During her doctoral studies, she focused on numerical methods for the characterization of radar targets. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the analysis of electromagnetic problems using the boundary element method. Since 1998, she has been actively involved as a Researcher in the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in the framework of several European Space Agency (ESA) contracts, directly or as a subcontractor of companies (EADS-Casa Espacio, Madrid, Spain, Deimos Engenharia, Lisboa, Portugal). Her expertise includes, among others, the fundamentals of interferometric radiometry, aperture synthesis, image reconstruction, and calibration algorithms, as well as hardware specifications and payload characterization. She has been a Telecommunications Engineer with UPC since 1990, where she has been a Professor since 1992, being first an Associate Professor and then a Full Professor since 1997.

• He is the director of the CRG and senior group leader of the Systems Biology Program.
• He completed his PhD on Cell Biology at the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM) in Madrid (Spain).
• He is an EMBO and RACEFyN member and has received the Marie Curie Excellence Award. He has also received support through the prestigious European Research Comission (ERC) Advanced Grant and support through the prestigious European Research Comission (ERC) Advanced Grant.
• He has participated as a principal investigator in numerous research projects financed both by the ERC (through the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes) and the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain.
• He is Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and has directed 14 PhD theses.

Josep Samitier is the director of IBEC and full professor in the Physics Faculty (Electronic Department) in the University of Barcelona (UB). From February 1984 to June 1985 he was a research fellow at the Philips Electronic Laboratory in Paris. From March 2001 to June 2005 he was Deputy Head of the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), and in 2003 he received the Barcelona City Council Award in the area of technology. He is the coordinator of the Spanish Platform on Nanomedicine and the president of the Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca (ACER).

• Studied Chemistry and Chemical engineering, obtained his PhD in 1979 from University of Barcelona
• Major research interests are enantioselective catalysis, development of enzyme-like catalysts and development of photocatalytic materials
• Appointed as ICIQ’s Founding Director in 2000
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2014
• Director of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) from 2016 to 2017.
• 2019 – Gold Medal of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ).
• Co-author of over 285 scientific publications, 6 book chapters and co-inventor in 26 patents

• Professor at Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF).
• MSc and PhD in Psychology and expert in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
• Publication of more then 100 scientific papers and several books.
• His scientific aim is to find a unified theory of mind and brain using synthetic methods and to apply it to quality of life enhancing technologies.
• His theory, known as Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC), has been generalized to a range of brain structures and robotic systems and has laid the foundation for a novel neurorehabilitation approach called the Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS).
• He loves sports and music.

• Degree in Physics by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), PhD in Physics (Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) and UPC professor. 
• Founding of ICFO in 2002 and director since then.
• Advisor for public and private entities from different countries of Europe, USA, Canada and Australia.
• Award of the Monturiol Medal for Scientific Merit in 2009; the Leadership Prize of the Optical Society of America in 2011; the Catalan National Prize for Research in 2016 and the Nature Mentoring Award in 2017. 

• Degree in Telecommunication Engineering by Technical University of Madrid (UPM).
• Publication of 700 papers and service in 300 international conferences’ organization.
• Main awards: Seymour Cray, Eckert-Mauchly, Harry Goode, ACM Distinguished Service, “Hall of Fame” member IST European Program, King Jaime I in research, two Spanish National Awards on Informatics and Engineering.
• Honorary Doctorate: Universities of Chalmers, Belgrade, Las Palmas, Zaragoza, Complutense of Madrid, Santander, Granada, University of Veracruz and CINVESTAV.
• Fellow of IEEE, ACM and Intel Distinguished Research Fellow; Member of Royal Spanish Academy of Engineering, Royal Academy of Science and Arts; Correspondent Academic of Spanish Royal Academy of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences.

• Degree in Physics by University of Barcelona (UB)
• PhD in experimental high-energy physics by University Autonomous of Barcelona
• Post-doctoral stay at CERN, Geneva
• Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) at IFAE
• Working mostly in the US-led “Dark Energy Survey” (DES) and IFAE-led “Physics of the Accelerated Universe” (PAU) projects, being the PI in both. Both projects try to shed light into the nature of the “dark energy” that is causing the current acceleration of the expansion of the Universe.

Tomas Marques is the director of the IBE and Principal Investigator of the Comparative Genomics group. He started his own laboratory in 2011 after a Marie Curie fellowship (2008) in Seattle, University of Washington. In 2011 he obtained the competitive ERC Starting Grant 2010 and in 2011, he was selected as an ICREA research investigator at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). In 2013, he was also selected for the EMBO young Investigator award and associate editor for BMC Genomics. In 2014, he was also appointed head of the comparative genomics group at CRG-CNAG. He is part of the executive committee of the G10K and the Dog G10K, two international efforts to sequence 10,000 vertebrates to study genome evolution and 10,000 dog genomes. He has trained 5 PhD students and 3 postdocs, all of them working actively in the academia in UK and USA.