Professor Jordi Cabot is Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). He is also an affiliate professor of computer science at the University of Luxembourg. In 2023, Professor Cabot was awarded the PEARL Chair by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), with €3 million in funding, to set up and coordinate the BESSER (BEtter Smart Software fastER) project in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT).

Before moving to Luxembourg, Jordi Cabot was an ICREA research professor at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, the research center of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), where he headed the Systems, Software and Models (SOM) research laboratory. He has also been a visiting professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, an associate professor at the École des Mines de Nantes as part of an Inria international chair, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto. He has also co-founded two startups.

His research falls within the broad field of systems and software engineering, promoting the rigorous use of software models in all software tasks, while maintaining a focus on the most unpredictable element of any project: human beings. His current research topics include pragmatic formal verification techniques, open-source community analysis, open data exploitation, the role of AI in software development (and vice versa), and AI sandboxes.