He is the co-inventor of the CubeSat standard together with Bob Twiggs, and the co-founder of Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
[1] Puig-Suari was born in the Catalan region of Spain in 1965 to parents Josep Puig Mas and Leonor Suari Rojo.
After moving to the United States, Puig-Suari obtained his BS and MS degrees from Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in 1988 and 1990, respectively.
He then completed PhD dissertation at Purdue with Professor James Longuski as thesis advisor.
[3] In 2011 Puig-Suari and Scott MacGillivray, former manager of nanosatellite programs for Boeing Phantom Works, established Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems in San Luis Obispo, California, to sell miniature avionics packages for small satellites, with the goal to increase the volume available for payloads.