2012: ICIQ year through the lens January 2, 2013 Arjan Kleij and Emilio Palomares: From Tenure Tracks to consolidated Group Leaders at ICIQ Piet van Leeuwen’s Birthday Celebrations ICIQ is news in ‘El País’ Urakawa’s Research Group granted with a Long Term Project at ALBA Pau Ballester receives the RSEQ Award of Organic Chemistry 2012 Antoni Llobet awarded with the Hermanos Elhuyar-Hans Goldschmidt Lectureship Premi Nacional de Recerca awarded to Henkel-ICIQ-UAB private-public partnership SCIPIO: A new tool for scientific computation Reaching out to Neanderthals through Chemistry Strem Chemicals Inc. sells organocatalysts synthesised through a new synthetic route developed at ICIQ Antonio M. Echavarren receives an ERC Advanced Grant ICIQ reaches h index=70 Launch of ICIQ International Postdoctoral Mobility Programme (ICIQ-IPMP) Launch of ICIQ-Starting Career Programme (ICIQ-SCP) Alexandr Shafir: New Group Leader at ICIQ INTECAT project recognised at the Gala de la Ciencia 2012