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7 questions for...Jordi Duran

17 November 2021

Dr. Jordi Duran Castells, professor with the Department of Bioengineering and researcher at the IQS School of Engineering

 

Dr. Oriol Gallemí Rovira, Profesor del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial e investigador del grupo de investigación GEPI de IQS
Dr. Jordi Duran Castells, professor with the Department of Bioengineering and researcher at the IQS School of Engineering 

1. What do you like most about your job?
I'm passionate about science. My work, both in terms of research and teaching, allows me to be in constant contact with science and learn new things every day.

2. What would you like to spend more time doing?
Traveling. I travel as much as I can, but I'd like to do it even more.

3. What are you proudest of?
My family (in the broadest sense possible).

4. What value do you appreciate most in people?
Positivity and generosity. The people who have had the greatest impact on my life have been the ones who made the least “noise,” like my grandmother.

5. Where's a place you'd like to visit?
I would love to discover countless places, but I've wanted to go back to New York for a long time now.

6. What's a dream you'd like to pursue?
I'm not much of a dreamer. I'm more into having goals, like learning as much as I can, contributing to making society better, advancing scientific knowledge to help cure diseases, and enjoying my family and friends to the fullest. 

7. What do you have left to learn?
Everything! The more things I learn, the more I realize that I have everything left to learn.