Carles Arús was born in 1954. He obtained a BSc in Biology in 1976 and a PhD in Chemistry in 1981 (Barcelona, ES). He was first involved with protein NMR in 1979 in Naples, Italy. His postdoctoral work was on muscle NMR with Michael Bárány and John L. Markley (1982–1985, USA). Since 1985, he has been at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of UAB (Barcelona, Spain), leading the GABRMN since then (http://gabrmn.uab.es/). He has approximately 162 publications and a Scopus-based “h” number of 36 (Researcher ID C-2361-2009; ORCID 0000-0003-2510-2671). His present interests are in the field of MR-based molecular imaging of brain tumors for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy planning.