He completed his undergraduate and Master’s degrees at the University of Valencia (UV), before going on to earn his PhD in chemistry with distinction at Georgetown University in 1987. A CSIC researcher since 1990, he worked at the Science Materials Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB) from 1990 to 2007, spending a sabbatical year as a NATO Senior Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 1998-99. In 2007 he moved to the former Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Centre (CIN2) as group leader of the NEO-Energy lab. When CIN2 became the ICN2 in 2013, he became group leader of the Novel Energy-Oriented Materials Group, heading up projects on hybrid organic-inorganic nanostructures, nanocomposite materials for energy storage and conversion.

Becoming a CSIC Research Professor in 2006, he has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) since 2014 and was the vice-director of MATGAS from 2010 to 2014. He has authored over 200 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals, and is the scientific editor of the books Functional Hybrid Materials (P. Gómez-Romero, C. Sánchez; Wiley-VCH, 2004) and Metal Oxides in Supercapacitors (D.P. Dubal, P. Gomez-Romero; Elsevier, 2017). He is also the author of four award-winning popular science books: Metaevolución. La Tierra en el espejo (Celeste, 2001), Un planeta en busca de energía (Síntesis, 2007), Creadors de futur (Bromera, 2016), and Nanomundo (Materia / El País, 2016). In 2017 he received the CIDETEC prize for research in electrochemistry.