His PhD thesis (University of Barcelona, 2007) was mainly based on modeling the chromatographic behavior of ionizable compounds by studying the pH variation in hydroorganic mobile phases. As part of his predoctoral studies, in 2004 he had the opportunity to work 6 months with Prof. Ernst Kenndler (Institute for Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria) with the aim of studying the applicability of capillary electrophoresis in non-aqueous media (NACE) to the analysis of poorly soluble compounds.
In 2009 he moved to Vienna (Austria) to join the research group of Dr. Dieter Blaas at the Department of Medical Biochemistry of the Max F. Perutz Laboratories in order to study the infection process of human rhinovirus by means of electrophoretic techniques (in both capillary and chip formats), using liposomes as model systems for cellular lipid membranes.
At the end of 2011 he returned to Barcelona contracted by a pharmaceutical company to develop a high-throughput chromatographic methodology for the lipophilicity determination of substances of biological interest. In 2013 he joined the active ingredients synthesis division of another pharmaceutical company with responsibilities in the development analytical methods for the analysis of raw materials, intermediates, process controls and final products in the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
In 2014 he joined the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona with full teaching and research responsibilities, focusing his investigations on the modeling of chromatographic retention (particularly HILIC), in the determination of physicochemical properties of substances of pharmaceutical interest (acidity constants, solubility and lipophilicity) and in the subrogation of biological systems using chromatographic and electrophoretic systems.
