ICIQ’s director  and group leader Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs collaborated in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry’s Guest Editorial. As part of the newly introduced section called “Institute Feature”, ICIQ’s history is outlined from past to present in an issue that also includes articles written by other ICIQ’s group leaders. The whole piece provides a […]

Professor Josep Castells passed away on the 30th of July. The whole ICIQ community joins his family and friends in their loss. He was a member of the CSIC where he worked as a research professor. Later on in his career, he became director of the department of organic chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de […]

Dr. Elisabet Romero, group leader who joined ICIQ last February through the institute’s Starting Career Programme, has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. These grants are worth up to €1.5 M for a five-year project. Dr. Romero will undertake the project entitled ‘Engineering Bio-Inspired Systems for the Conversion of Solar Energy to […]

ICIQ Summer Fellows 2018 have been welcomed today in the Auditorium. 10 prominent undergraduate students with a background in chemistry – or related disciplines – will have their first approach to research during the three-month paid internship in one of ICIQ’s research groups. From July until September, the students will get involved in their respective […]

In its fourth release, the web application Mapping Scientific Excellence ranks ICIQ in first position in “Best Journal Rate” (ratio of papers published in the most influential journals) and third in “Best Paper Rate” (proportion of highly cited papers published by an institution) in the field of Chemistry worldwide. These results refer to the 2011-2015 […]

“It is very humbling to be the recipient of the 2018 Banc Sabadell Foundation Award for Sciences and Engineering. This recognition, however, is nothing else but a collective effort for all the contributions that my group has made through the years. Their perseverance, diligence and ambition are, beyond any reasonable doubt, key contributory factors for […]

The use of lead-poisoned palladium catalysts, introduced by Herbert Lindlar in the 1950’s, still dominates for selective hydrogenations in fine chemical applications. Nevertheless, the search for a more environmentally friendly and efficient catalyst has been a pursued goal in this field. Now researchers from ETH Zürich, EMPA and ICIQ (Masoud Shahrokhi and Núria López) have […]