Prof. Jordi Burés obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and his PhD with an FPU studentship at the University of Barcelona, under the supervision of Prof. Jaume Vilarrasa.

In 2010, he was awarded a Spanish postdoctoral fellowship to join the group of Prof. Donna Blackmond at The Scripps Research Institute in California.

Three years later, he began his independent research career as a Junior Research Fellow at the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London.

In 2016, he was appointed as Lecturer at The University of Manchester, where he climbed the academic ladder, becoming Full Professor in 2023. In 2024 he joined ICIQ as ICREA Research Professor. His current research lines reflect his academic and research journey, with the development of better synthetic methods guided by reaction mechanistic information.

In 2018, Jordi was honoured with the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award. The following year, he received the Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), and in 2020, he was the recipient of the Hickinbottom Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).