Nacho is a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Alán Aspuru-Guzik and Varinia Bernales at the University of Toronto, where he works at the interface of agentic AI and quantum computing. His research focuses on building autonomous systems for scientific discovery and designing quantum algorithms with applications ranging from quantum chemistry and quantum computing  to computational fluid dynamics.

Nacho completed his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester under the supervision of Ignacio Franco. His doctoral research centered on open quantum systems and quantum dynamics, where he developed scalable theoretical and computational methods to describe coherence and dissipation in molecular systems. His work showed how engineered light–matter interactions in optical cavities can stabilize quantum superposition states and extend coherence lifetimes under realistic conditions, and involved close collaboration with experimental groups to ensure physical relevance.