Prof. Pablo Ordejón was appointed as director of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in 2012. ​He was born in Madrid in 1964, holds a PhD in Ph​​ysics from the Autonomous University of Madrid and has developed his career in several scientific laboratories and universities in Spain and the University of Illinois (Uni​ted States). He currently is the director of ICN2 and still deputy director of CIN2 (Research Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology). He also leads the ICN2 Theory and Simulation Group.

Prof. Ordejón is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and elected member of the Academia Europaea. He received the 2003 Badge of Honor from the Spanish Association of Scientist and the 2018 Narcis Monturiol Medal from the Government of Catalonia.

He oversaw the Condensed Matter Physics subject area of the Physics Panel of the Spanish National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP) from 2003 to 2006, and was the head of the Physics and Engineering Panel of the Access Committee to the Spanish Supercomputing Network from 2005 to 2011. He is currently member of the Physical Sciences Panel of the Hong Kong Research Grant Council.