ICREA Prof. Jordi Arbiol was born in Molins de Rei (Catalonia), 1975. Graduated in Physics at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 1997, where he also obtained his PhD (European Doctorate and PhD Extraordinary Award) in 2001. He also worked as an Assistant Professor at UB until 2009. In 2009 he was appointed as ICREA Professor and has held this position since then. From 2009 to 2015 he was Group Leader at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC. Since 2015 he is the leader of the Group of Advanced Electron Nanoscopy at Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), CSIC and BIST. He is Scientific Coordinator of the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA Synchrotron (JEMCA). He has been one of the founder members of e-DREAM. Since 2023 he has been Associate Editor of Nano Letters (American Chemical Society).

He has been President of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME) (2017-2021), Vice- president (2013-2017) and member of its Executive Board (2009-2021). In 2019 he became a Member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) (2019-2027). He is Scientific Coordinator of the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA Synchrotron ( JEMCA).

Other recognitions include the FWO Commemorative Medal in 2021, the BIST Ignite Award in 2018, the 2014 EU40 Materials Prize (E-MRS), the 2014 EMS Outstanding Paper Award, as well as being listed in the Top 40 under 40 Power List (2014) by The Analytical Scientist.