Joaquín Tintoré Subirana is Dr. in Physical Oceanography (1988) and Permanent full Research Professor from CSIC (Spanish Council for Scientific Research) at IMEDEA (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies), a research institute based in Mallorca Island that centres its activities in interdisciplinary research applied for example to the understanding of the coastal oceans.

His research interests have evolved from the understanding of physical processes in the upper ocean to the study of mesoscale variability and its interdisciplinary effects in relation to operational oceanography and ocean forecasting, using modelling, observations and data assimilation. More recently his interest has been focused on the application of solid based interdisciplinary knowledge for sound integrated coastal zone management in a global sustainability framework.  His work has lead to more than 80 research publications in international refereed journals. He has been PI in 28 research projects and has also coordinated two EC funded European projects. He has directed 8 Master thesis, 9 Ph. D. thesis and has been member of the editorial board of several international Journals. In 2003 he obtained the National Spanish Research Award for his research contributions.

With respect to his experience in management of science, he was Director of the first Marine Sciences and Technology Programme from the Spanish National Research Plan (1995-1998) and Vice-Chairman from the Marine Board from the European Science Foundation (1997-1998). He has also been Coordinator from Environment and Marine research activities at CSIC involving 21 research institutes in Spain and over 1.700 research personnel (2001-2004). He has also served at many international committees and boards.