His main subject of research is the migrations between Catalonia and America, and his first work, in 2010, was the biography of the Catalan musician Luis G. Jordà, highly praised in Mexico but completely forgotten in Spain.
[16][17] In addition to writing and music, Canton holds a PhD in telecommunication engineering by the Technical University of Catalonia and is the author of a number of publications in the field of human-computer interaction.
[20] During his academic years at the Technical University of Catalonia, Canton was selected, together with a team of Catalan researchers,[21] in 2002, to collaborate with the European Space Agency in one of the first parabolic flights.
The conducted experiments, supervised by Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels, on the capillarity effect under weightlessness conditions, proved feasible to grow plants in Lunar soil.
His publications and research have been awarded and/or supported by the Council of Les Masies de Roda (2009), the Contemporary Cultural Center of Barcelona (2010), la Casa América Cataluña (2010), the Council of Sant Joan de les Abadesses (2010), the Provincial Deputation of Girona (2010), the General Consulate of Mexico in Barcelona (2010), the Ramon Llull Institute (2011, 2012), the Consejo Nacional para la Culturay las Artes in México (2011), the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico (2012), among others.