Jordi Vila is the Head of the Clinical Microbiology Department of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, a Professor of the School of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, and a Research Professor at the Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal) of Barcelona, Spain. His main field of research is the development of new antibiotics against multidrug-resistant bacteria and molecular tools for the rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases. Jordi Vila was the program director of the Congress of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) from 2009 to 2014.