He was elected rector of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in December 2017.

A year later, he returned to the UPC, where he began to teach and carry out research, earning a doctoral degree in 1992.

He later worked as a scientific advisor in the remote sensing group RSLab, where he specialised in the development and subsequent monitoring of the ESA's SMOS sensor, launched in 2009, on the subject of which he has published more than 200 scientific publications.

He is currently a member of the UPC's CommSensLab, a 2017-2020 María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence.

[3] In 2017, he was appointed rector of the UPC, having won 50.23% (1,854) of the weighted votes in the elections held in November of that year.