Yuanyuan Shi, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet (ICIQ) and Prof. Mario Lanza (Soochow University, China), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Materials and Molecules for Pollution Free Clean Energy” (assigned to the Chemical Engineering Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 15th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members […]

Joan González Fabra, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Carles Bo (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Computational Design of Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Recycling” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 9th at URV’s Chemistry Faculty. The members of the evaluation committee […]

Ilan Marek is a professor at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He studied in France, received his PhD thesis in 1988 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. After one year as a postdoctoral fellow, he obtained a research position at the Centre National de la […]

Summer has come and gone, and so have the Summer Fellows ICIQ has hosted for the last two months. From July until September, ten chemistry undergraduates from around Europe have joined ICIQ’s research groups to have their first approach to research. “It’s been very useful to see the research environment outside of university and to […]

Scientists from across Europe and North America gathered at ICIQ last week to attend the 5th CHAOS meeting. For three days, the more than 80 attendees have shared research results, discussed projects and found common ground to create fruitful collaborations in the field of Carbon-Hydrogen Activation in Organic Synthesis (CHAOS). CHAOS is part of the […]

Professor David Cahen is Professor at Bar Ilan University’s Dept. fo Chemistry and at the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Cahen’s research focuses on exploring chemical means to control the electronic and optical properties of materials. He studied Chemistry and Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem […]

Orchestra Scientific S.L. has signed a capital increase to issue shares to its new partner InnoEnergy, a Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC) that works to build long-lasting integration frameworks among industry, research, and higher education within the energy sector. The new agreement will allow InnoEnergy to join and participate in Orchestra Scientific S.L., while the company […]