Nagoya University, in Japan, recently awarded Prof. Rubén Martín (ICIQ Group Leader and ICREA Professor) the 14th Hirata Award. This award is presented each year to a rising star in the field of organic chemistry. Prof. Martín receives it in recognition of his contribution to the «discovery and development of synthetically useful organometallic methodologies» and […]

The Alliance of Severo Ochoa centers and María de Maeztu units (SOMMa) expressed its concern about the decrease of funding in RDI and some administrative problems that constrain Spanish science in an event recently held in Madrid. The alliance presented the “SOMMa Report: Actions necessary to safeguard the competitiveness of science” to all parliamentary groups […]

Every year, the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) awards outstanding chemists several prizes to promote excellence in research. We are very happy to announce that ICIQ Group Leader Dr. Marcos G. Suero is one of this year’s awardees in the ‘Young Researchers’ category. Moreover, the RSEQ awarded its 2018 Gold Medal to Prof. Jesús […]

Last month, Professor Antoni Llobet delivered an invited talk at the 5th International Workshop on Solar Energy for Sustainability at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. The lecture, entitled «Understanding the main factors that influence the performance» was recorded, and is now available on Youtube. You may watch it here:

Lidia Clot, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel À. Pericàs (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Immobilization of Chiral Brønsted Acids and Lewis Base for Batch and Flow Enantioselective Catalysis” (assigned to the department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly in April the 12th at the […]

We are very happy to announce that Prof. Rubén Martín has recently been awarded two very prestigious international prizes. He received an invitation to participate as one of the selected lecturers of the «2018-2019 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship» conference cycle. The Novartis award recognises outstanding contributions to organic and computational chemistry, including applications to biology, and the […]

Sergio Sopeña, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Arjan Kleij (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Organocatalytic transformations of carbon dioxide and cyclic carbonates” (assigned to the department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly in March the 22nd at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation […]