The ‘laudatio’ will be read by the vice principal for research of the Romanian university, Felicia Loghin.

Jordi Mañes (Torreblanca, 1953) is a graduate in Pharmacy by the University of Granada (1976) and doctor by the Universitat de València (1980), where he has developed his whole teaching and researcher career. He has been vice-dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, between 1986 and 1992, and afterwards, dean, between 1992 and 1998. Moreover, he has been director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Sciences, Toxicology and Forensic Medicine.

During more than 20 years the professor Jordi Mañes has developed an intense activity and he has promoted the mobility of degree and doctorate students and professors within the framework of the European programmes Tempus and Erasmus.

As a full university professor of Nutrition and Bromatology, he has directed different regional and national research projects about the analysis of active ingredients in drugs and biological human fluids in a first phase, and subsequently, about the presence of chemical and biological pollutants in natural water and food produced and/or consumed in Mediterranean countries. To this day, his research activity is focused on the promotion and cohesion of the research group that he coordinates, in order to reach international projection in the field of risk assessment by mycotoxins and in the production of safer food.

He has six six-year research periods and he has participated in the publication of 240 scientific articles, the presentation of 265 communications to national and international conferences and the publication of 25 chapters in books about food and feeding. Furthermore, he has tutored 22 doctoral thesis.