Brief biography
Jordi Camí, (Terrassa, 1952) MD, PhD, is emeritus professor, specialist in Clinical Pharmacology, at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). General director of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB). He is a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC) where he served as scientific secretary from 2023 to 2025. Vice-president of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation (for Alzheimer's research), having been its promoter and first director between 2008 and 2020.
Since 2023, he has been president of the Spanish Research Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. He has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Health and the Spanish Bioethics Committee and the first president of the Committee for the Integrity of Research in Catalonia (CIR-CAT).
His scientific activity has focused on the field of neuroscience (drug dependence, cognition), having explored other fields such as bibliometrics, evaluation, and science policy.
His academic activity has taken place at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), where he has held the positions of rector's delegate, dean, and department director. At UPF, he promoted Biology studies and the creation and development of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences.
He was director of the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) between 1985 and 2005. He has also been involved in the creation of new research centers (CRG, CMRB, BBRC-FPM) and particularly the PRBB, which he founded and has directed since 2005.
His contributions and involvement in the creation and management of scientific institutions have been recognized with the Narcís Monturiol Medal for Scientific Merit (2000) and the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat de Catalunya (2024).
He is interested in the intersection between science and politics and also between science and ethics and is attracted to the interests of the avant-garde artistic group Dau al Set, such as creativity, surrealism, and the world of magic and illusionism. He is an active member of the Spanish Society of Illusionism (SEI), promoting scientific studies on the neuroscience behind magic.
