October 26, 2021
Dr. Katherine Villa has been awarded a ”La Caixa” Junior Leader Fellowship to develop the project “One-Dimensional Nanostructured Catalytic Systems for the Gas-Phase Photocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide.” Through the ”La Caixa” Foundation MSCA CO-FUND award, Villa will lead her own research project and guide PhD students and postdocs. Villa obtained her bachelors in Chemistry […]
October 22, 2021
ICIQ alumnus Dr. Mauro Mato (former PhD student in the Echavarren group) has won one of the 2021 Alfred R. Bader Award for Student Innovation. This award recognises the work of chemistry graduate students, whose innovative research is making an impact on synthetic organic chemistry and has the potential to advance science in the future. […]
October 21, 2021
Dr. Arianna Brandolese, a postdoctoral researcher working in Prof. Kleij’s group, has won the 2021 “Cinzia Chiappe prize” awarded by the Interdivisional group in Green Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI). The award aims to recognize the two best PhD theses in Italy in the area of Green Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry. The […]
October 19, 2021
ICIQ and the Japanese engineering firm ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation have signed a license agreement granting ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation the right to commercialise the ioChem-BD software in Japan. “Seeing how our software is widely adopted by academia and an interesting business opportunity to IT companies says a lot about our team’s scientific background and capabilities,” says […]
October 18, 2021
The European Academy of Sciences has elected Prof. Ballester as a member, based on his academic achievements. “I am thrilled and highly honoured to have been elected as a member of the EURASC. I will do my best to spread the scope of EURASC in the international scientific community,” states Ballester. Prof. Ballester is a […]
October 15, 2021
Finding innovative and sustainable solutions to societal problems is a major goal for ICIQ researchers. Now, Dr. Felipe Garcés, a postdoctoral researcher in the Galán-Mascarós group, and Khalid Azmani, a PhD student from the URV whose thesis is being co-directed by Prof. Galán-Mascarós, have joined the Collider OnCampus programme with the HyCloPho project. The HyCloPho […]
October 14, 2021
ICIQ and BASF have renewed their collaboration agreement until 2023. The director of the institute, Prof. Emilio Palomares; and the, general manager of BASF Spain, Carles Navarro, have been in charge of initiating this new period of collaboration. The main novelty of the agreement is the creation of the BASF-ICIQ Awards for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. […]