Summary
Jordi Casanellas is an AI and decision-science leader with 11 years of experience translating advanced machine learning and language models into measurable business impact across pharma and enterprise clients. Based in Berlin, he currently serves as Director of AI at Bayer after leading Language AI and Decision Science teams that deployed LLM-driven productivity tools and supported Medical Affairs, Pharmacovigilance and R&D. He combines a strong academic foundation—a PhD in Physics and postdoctoral HPC and Bayesian modeling work at the Max Planck Institute—with hands-on product and startup experience founding an AI-driven energy trading platform that managed multimillion-euro purchases. Known for building and scaling multidisciplinary teams (up to 14 engineers/data scientists plus clinical experts), he bridges deep technical rigor with pragmatic transformation in regulated industries. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable in high-performance scientific computing and in operationalizing LLMs for real-world workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Degree, Physics Degree at Universitat de Barcelona
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Catalan, Italian