He has been involved in Parallel Computation and Medical Image processing, participating in more than 55 national and European Research Projects, has authored and co-authored 34 articles in indexed journals and book chapters and in more than 80 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings. Ignacio is the European Coordinator of EU-Brazil collaborative project EUBraBIGSEA and was the European Coordinator of EU-Brazil collaborative project EUBrazil Cloud Connect