March 30, 2023
The European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants will help outstanding research leaders across Europe to explore their most innovative and ambitious ideas. With this latest award, the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-CERCA) has accumulated a sum of 25 grants from the ERC. ICIQ director and ICREA Professor Emilio Palomares has been awarded a […]
March 29, 2023
Are you looking for a stable polymorph of your drug substance? Do you want to avoid any manufacturability, bioavailability or clinical outcome affection during your drug development or storage due to any unknown solid form conversion? Or even do you need to demonstrate to regulation authorities your valid results? Chemical substance exists in the solid […]
March 23, 2023
Jiahao Yu, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Water Splitting Electrocatalysts in Acidic Media: in the Search of Non-noble Metal Alternatives” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 23rd. The members of the evaluation committee […]
March 22, 2023
The department has recently acquired an Electron Diffractometer and an Ion-Mobility Mass Spectrometer, valued at €1.8M and €1M respectively, to enhance its already excellent services. The Characterization Technologies Department (CTD) of the Institute for Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-CERCA) has made, this 2023, an investment of almost 3 million euros in state-of-the-art analytical technology. Right now, […]
March 21, 2023
This year has started with new sustainable challenges for the Green ICIQ team. Xavier Blanch (SHEQ) will keep working in this volunteer group with three new incorporations: Dr. Joan Guillem Mayans, Ángel Rey (Scientific Education and Outreach Unit) and Elena Pedrola (KTT Communication). The new Green team will continue the work done since the group […]
March 20, 2023
Dr. José A. Berrocal will join ICIQ next summer through ICIQ’s Starting Career Programme (ICIQ-SCP) funded by the Severo Ochoa Excellence grant CEX2019-000925-S (MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/ 501100011033). The programme is aimed at attracting highly talented young researchers, with an outstanding postdoctoral record and willing to start their independent scientific career. His research focuses in combining organic […]
March 17, 2023
Professor James Durrant, a member of the ICIQ Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) since 2014, has received earlier this week his CBE for his outstanding contribution to photochemistry and solar energy research from Princess Anne. The Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) forms part of the Honours System of the United Kingdom. […]