Román A. Pérez graduated from the University of Barcelona with a bachelor's degree in chemistry (2006) and completed his doctoral degree, which focused on calcium phosphate cement at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2011). As a doctoral student, he spent 9 months working in a research lab at Harvard University. After completing his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at a number of institutions, including the Institute of Tissue Regeneration Engineering in South Korea (2011–2013), University College Dublin (2013), and Ryerson University (2013–2014). In 2014, he became a tenure-track lecturer at Dankook University in South Korea (2014–2016). His research interests include the design and fabrication of biomaterials that incorporate biological molecules and cells to regenerate tissue.