Honorary Academician

Experimental Sciences

Date of admission: March 11, 2019

Admission speech: «De la Tierra a la Luna»

Reply speech: Dr. Santiago Castellà Surribas, PhD in Law

Distinguished career: Pastry chef and co-owner of El Celler de Can Roca, renowned for his playful creativity and scientific approach to pastry. Named World’s Best Pastry Chef (2014), he has transformed dessert into a multisensory experience.

JORDI ROCA

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

  • Author of several books on pastry arts, translated into many languages and internationally acclaimed.
  • Promoter of two research lines: sustainable cocoa and chocolate production processes, and new techniques in ice cream making.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

  • Chosen several times as the World’s Best Pastry Chef.
  • Best Chef Award by Millésime.
  • Creator, together with his brothers, of the opera Somni.
  • Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
  • Awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts.