Josep Samitier's Biography

Josep Samitier, Director, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

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