Ignacio Alfonso was initially trained as an organic chemist at the University of Oviedo in Spain (PhD in 1999). He has worked at prestigious institutions in France (University of Strasbourg, short stay in 1997) and in the United States (The Scripps Research Institute, postdoctoral fellowship between 2000 and 2002). After being selected for the prestigious Ramón y Cajal contract (2004) at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, in 2007 he obtained a permanent position at IQAC-CSIC in Barcelona, where he created the Supramolecular Chemistry Group, which he has directed since then. His research interests include supramolecular chemistry, chemical biology, complex dynamic chemical systems and, in general, all aspects related to the molecular recognition of biorelevant species and their biomedical applications.