August 9, 2022
The 71st Nobel Laureate Meeting, held in Lindau (Germany) in early July, gathered hundreds of young researchers from around the globe and about 30 Nobel Prize winners for a week of networking and career discussion. In this edition, centred on Chemistry, three ICIQers attended the prestigious meeting: Dr. Vasileios Tseliou, a postdoctoral researcher in the […]
July 29, 2022
Raúl Pérez Soto, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Feliu Maseras (ICIQ) and Dr. Maria Besora (URV), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Modeling the Self-Assembly of Cage Molecules” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 29th. The members of the evaluation committee were: […]
July 28, 2022
ICIQ group leader Dr. Mónica Pérez-Temprano has won the 2021 Young Investigator Award by the Organic Division of EuChemS for her contribution “to the U3D goal (Understand, Discover, Design and Develop), novel and more efficient transition metal-catalyzed reactions.” The Pérez-Temprano group is focused on giving mechanistic investigations of chemical reactions a new dimension by using […]
July 21, 2022
The creation of the new ICIQ spin-off, Jolt, has recently been made official. The signing took place in Barcelona and was attended by the founding members of Jolt: Leon Rizzi, executive director; Professor Julio Lloret-Fillol, scientific director, ICIQ group leader and ICREA Professor; Dr. Alberto Bucci, technological director; and Arturo Vilavella, director of operations. Also […]
July 13, 2022
Sergi Fernández, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol (ICIQ) and Prof. Josep M. Luis (UdG), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Development and mechanistic study of well-defined catalysts for the CO2 and H2O reduction reactions” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July […]
July 12, 2022
The analysis developed at ICIQ will make it possible to evaluate gases in the environment and design sustainable alternative solutions. The company Applus+ IDIADA and the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) have collaborated to determine the gases released by car batteries during combustion in the event of an accident. These analyses will make […]
July 11, 2022
Sergio García Carrillo, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “More is Different: Modern Computational Modeling for Heterogeneous Catalysis” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 11th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik […]