Ignacio joined the group as a postdoctoral associate in September 2026. He received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of North Texas with Prof. Thomas R. Cundari, where he studied methane activation. Ignacio did a residency at SandboxAQ , where he worked with accelerating crystal structure prediction for drug-like molecules using machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPS). He later did a postdoc with Alistair Sterling at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he worked in developing Chemrefine, an interoperable workflow manager for MLIPS and QM calculations, and studying post-polymerization functionalization reactions. In the Kulik group he is working in automated workflows for reaction discovery.