Honorary Academician
Experimental Sciences:
Date of admission: March 11, 2019
Admission speech: «From the Earth to the Moon»
Reply speech: Dr. José Ramón Calvo Fernández, Doctor of Medicine and Surgery
Outstanding career: Chef and co-founder of El Celler de Can Roca, he has developed a cuisine that merges Catalan tradition with technical and sensory innovation. Recognized for his creative leadership and for elevating gastronomy as a form of knowledge, art, and sustainability.
JOAN ROCA
- Chef, co-founder and gastronomic director of El Celler de Can Roca.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- From La Masia, the restaurant’s R&D centre, he promotes research, innovation, training, and creativity projects.
- He fosters a cross-disciplinary vision of the culinary creation process, integrating science and tradition, technology and sensitivity, product and sensory anthropology.
- He has registered several industrial patents related to culinary innovation.
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of several internationally acclaimed books considered benchmarks in the field of gastronomy.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- Voted Best Chef in the World (2018).
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts.
- Goodwill Ambassador of the Development Programme of the United Nations Organization.
- Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Girona.
