Ignacio Aracil Sáez has a degree in Chemical Engineering (2002) and a PhD from the University of Alicante (2008). Since 2005 he is teaching in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Alicante, being a Senior Lecturer in that department since 2017.

He has taught in the studies of Chemical Engineer, Degree in Chemical Engineering and Master in Chemical Engineering. Currently, he is Head of Studies in the Degree of Chemical Engineering, responsible of Company Internships in that Degree, Secretary of the Institute of Chemical Process Engineering and Secretary of the Doctoral Program in Chemical Engineering.

Member of the research group "Engineering for Circular Economy", that was previously part of the group "Waste, Energy, Environment and Nanotechnology" (REMAN), he has conducted research stays at the University of Dayton (USA, 2004) and the University of Umeå (Sweden, 2012). His research is carried out mainly in the area of waste-to-energy and material recovery of various types of biomass and plastic waste and in the application of iron nanoparticles in the treatment of wastewater.