Jordi Morales was born in Palafrugell, Spain. He obtained a bachelor in physics in 2009 at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a master in photonics in 2013 at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. After an internship at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), he decided to start a PhD in 2014 where he combined gold nanorods, laser light and optical-based monitoring methods to study data-driven photothermal therapy in vivo. Since August 2019, he moved to Berlin to work as Project manager in OSPIN, a company aiming to establish an open and customizable bioprocessing platform.