Lluis Torner

He is the recipient of the 2016 National Research prize of Catalonia[2] and of the 2017 Nature mentorship award.

He enjoyed post-doctoral appointments at CREOL, University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.

He served as the elected President of the Association of Research Institutions of Catalonia (ACER)[3] during the period 2009–2014.

The institute was launched in 2002 in Barcelona with the mission to become a leading research center in Optics and Photonics.

Today it hosts 400 people and is widely considered to be one of the top global research centres in its field.