Martí Colom Cadena obtained a degree in Biology at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a master degree in Biomedicine at the same university.Since 2011 develops a PhD investigating the relation between pathological proteins from a neuropathologic point of view, at brain regions level as well as at synaptic level. He have been investigating in groups related to neurodegenerative diseases during research internships in the Trinity College of Dublin, in Ireland, and the University of Edinburgh, in United Kingdom. His main scientific aim is the study of neurodegenerative diseases -and especially the Lewy body diseases- in human brain tissue by applying traditional and advanced microscopy techniques.
Martí Colom completed his Doctoral Thesis in 2017, and in 2018 he moved to the Centre for Discovery of Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh to course a postdoctoral fellowship.