Ignacio graduated in Chemistry, with honors, in 2007. In 2010 he moved to UC Berkeley to explore enantioselective gold catalysis under the guidance of Prof. Dean Toste. In 2012 he earned his PhD in the field of asymmetric synthesis using chiral sulfoxides, mentored by Prof. Fernández de la Pradilla. During 2014-2016 he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he developed new metal-free oxidation processes within the group of Prof. Tim Donohoe. Later on, during 2016-2018, he took a postdoctoral position with Prof. Steve Fletcher at Oxford to study new autocatalytic methods in the framework of an ERC-CoG. After a brief period as a Juan de la Cierva fellow within the Tortosa group, in 2019 he started his independent career at IMDEA-Nanociencia and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. During this time he has been awarded with La Caixa Junior Leader, CAM Talent Attraction and Ramón y Cajal fellowships.  Since 2021 he holds a permanent Tenured Scientist position at IQOG-CSIC.

Experience

2021 – present	Tenured Scientist. IQOG-CSIC.
2019 – present	Group Leader. IMDEA-Nanociencia.
2018 – 2021	Group Leader. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
2016 – 2018	Post-doctoral Research Associate. University of Oxford.
2014 – 2016	Marie Curie Fellow. University of Oxford.
2013 – 2014	Post-doctoral Research Associate. University of Leeds.
2012 – 2013	Researcher. IQM-CSIC.
2008 – 2011	PhD student. IQOG-CSIC.

Fellowships and awards

2021    Ramón y Cajal research fellowship. 
2020    CAM Talent Attraction research fellowship. 
2019    La Caixa Junior Leader research fellowship. 
2018    Juan de la Cierva research fellowship. 
2014    Marie Curie IEF.
2008    FPU PhD fellowship.
2006    Undergraduate Spanish research scholarship.

Organisation of scientific meetings

2022    Chair of Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in Systems Chemistry. 
2020    Chair of Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in Systems Chemistry.

Selected Publications

New antimicrobial self-assembling short lipopeptides
Vicente-García, C.; Colomer, I.
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 19, 6797–6803
DOI: 10.1039/D1OB01227D

Hydroarylation of Alkenes Using Anilines in Hexafluoroisopropanol
Colomer, I.
ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 6023–6029
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c00872

Selection from a pool of self-assembling lipid replicators. 
Colomer, I.; Borissov, A.; Fletcher, S. P. 
Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 176.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13903-x

A transient self-assembling self-replicator. 
Colomer, I.; Morrow, S.; Fletcher, S. P. 
Nat. Commun., 2018, 9, 2239.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04670-2

From Allylic Sulfoxides to Allylic Sulfenates: Fifty Years of a Never-Ending [2,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement. 
Colomer, I.; Fernández de la Pradilla, R.; Viso, A. 
Chem. Rev., 2017, 117, 14201-14243.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00428

Hexafluoroisopropanol as a highly versatile solvent. 
Colomer, I.*; Chamberlain, A.; Haughey, M.; Donohoe, T.J. 
Nat. Rev. Chem., 2017, 1, 0088.
DOI: 10.1038/s41570-017-0088

Hydrogen Bonding to Hexafluoroisopropanol Controls the Oxidative Strength of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. 
Colomer, I.; Batchelor-McAuley, C.; Odell, B.; Donohoe, T.J.; Compton, R.G. 
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 8855-8861.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b04057

Catalytic Hypervalent Iodine Promoters Lead to Styrene Dimerization and the Formation of Tri- and Tetrasubstituted Cyclobutanes. 
Colomer, I.; Coura Barcelos, R.; Donohoe, T. 
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 4748-4752. Highlighted in Synfacts 2016, 12, 0527.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201511683