Santiago Cañellas, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Smart Catalytic Systems for Batch and Continuous Flow Enantioselective Processes” (assigned to the Department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 20th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of […]

Dr. Dagmar Scharnagel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Echavarren Group, has been awarded the City of Bayreuth prize. On Friday 9th of November during a formal dinner, also known as “President’s dinner,” the mayor of Bayreuth recognised the work of three candidates of the Bayreuth University for their excellent thesis. During the ceremony, Dr. Scharnagel […]

Yangyang Shen, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Rubén Martin (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Visible Light Photoredox Promoted Transformations of Inert Chemical Bonds” (assigned to the Department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 12th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation […]

Ana García-Herraiz, PhD student at the Suero group, and Andreu Tortajada Navarro, PhD student at the Martín group, have been awarded the 1st and 3rd prize of the Reaxys-RSEQ Early Career Researcher Award this week. For a second year, Elsevier and the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry have organized Early Career Researcher Award. To participate, […]

ICIQ theoretical group leaders Carles Bo, Feliu Maseras and Núria López have published a comment on Nature Catalysis highlighting the role computational results databases can have in accelerating the discovery of catalysts. The computational studies carried out over the last decades have generated vast amounts of data. Now, several initiatives aim to systematically use the […]

Pablo Garrido Barros, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts Based on Copper and Nickel Complexes” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 2nd at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the […]

Autumn has finally arrived in Tarragona and while the cold weather is turning leaves brown, we keep as active as ever. During the last few months, the ICIQ research community has worked to bring closer to society the promise of artificial photosynthesis. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós and Núria López, ICIQ group leaders and coordinators of the […]