ICREA research professor at Pompeu Fabra University and a tenured member of the Philological Section of the IEC, he has been researching in the field of formal linguistics of sign languages since 2002. He is currently the director of the Catalan Sign Language Laboratory (LSCLab) at UPF, the first research group focused on the formal study of LSC, in the areas of theoretical morphosyntax and semantics. He has directed important national and European research projects on sign languages. He has published numerous scientific articles in prestigious journals and publishers, and has been co-editor of the journal Sign Language & Linguistics, as well as some reference works on sign language linguistics. He is the director of the project.