Director of UX Design @ Clarivate | Founder @ OpenPharma | Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction

I lead UX organizations and personally build the AI systems that multiply them. 15+ years of UX expertise with deep work in AI-powered drug discovery, clinical research automation, and biomedical data infrastructure.

Portfolio: joans.cat · the vision, the playbook, five case studies, and the lab

• OpenPharma - 50+ specialized MCP servers providing AI agents with pharmaceutical and biomedical data access
• BioClaw - Containerized biomedical AI assistant bundling all OpenPharma servers
• Cortellis CLI - AI-native intelligence workbench: 80+ commands across 13 data domains, deterministic multi-step analysis skills, and a self-building wiki knowledge base with a knowledge graph

• Clinical Trial Outcome Predictor - 0.926 AUC-ROC on held-out Phase 2/3 trials, built using autonomous experimentation
• Pharma Agentic OS - Agent orchestration for pharmaceutical workflows

• UX Research Skills - The full qualitative research pipeline as AI skills: interview transcripts to empathy maps, journeys, personas, JTBD analysis, and scored AI opportunities. Runs in Claude Code or GitHub Copilot

• Morra - A browser game of the Mediterranean finger-and-shout game, in Catalan: computer vision counts your fingers, speech recognition hears your call, and the AI rival's move is cryptographically committed before you throw. Play at morra.joans.cat

AI x Life Sciences: Model Context Protocol servers for biomedical data, agentic workflows in drug discovery, clinical trial prediction ML models

Research Automation: Autonomous experimentation patterns, natural language interfaces to pharma data, UX research synthesis via AI

Design Leadership: Scaling design systems in legacy environments, research-first product development, unifying Life Sciences product lines

Languages: Python, JavaScript/Node.js

AI/ML: Claude AI, Scikit-learn, Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Pharma/Bio: Cortellis, FDA/EMA APIs, NCBI, UniProt, PubMed

Design: Figma API, Design Systems, Nielsen Norman Group methodology

Data: Clinical trials data, genomics, protein structures, regulatory databases

OpenPharma - Open-source Model Context Protocol servers for pharmaceutical intelligence. 50+ specialized data sources spanning:

• Regulatory: FDA, EMA
• Genomics & Variants: NCBI, ClinVar, dbSNP
• Proteomics: UniProt, PDB, AlphaFold
• Pathways & Ontology: Reactome, Gene Ontology
• Cancer & Dependencies: DepMap, Cancer Dependency Map
• Healthcare & Policy: WHO, clinical guidelines

Clarivate (2018–Present) Director, Principal, Senior UX Designer - Leading UX transformation for Life Sciences and Healthcare products

Previously: PatSnap, Retechnica (Product Lead), University of Hertfordshire (Research Fellow), Birkbeck (Postdoc in Organisational Psychology)

Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction - Research-driven design approach

Industrial Engineering - Systems thinking and analytical problem-solving

Full-stack developer - Bridging design, ML, and engineering