ICIQ PhD Day 2019

 About the PhD Day

We are excited to announce the third edition of the ICIQ PhD Day, an event designed for and by ICIQ PhD students featuring interesting invited conferences, flash presentations and poster and networking sessions. It will take place at ICIQ on the 6th and 7th June 2019.

The number of poster/flash presentations is limited by time and space constraints (30 posters, 25 flash presentations). Preference will be given to those who register first, but in order to balance the scientific program we aim to include presentations from as many groups as possible. Funding for poster printing is available (up to 20 posters) if required.

Registration

In order to register to the ICIQ PhD Days 2019, please fill in this form and send your abstract to ipd@iciq.es before April 26th. You may download a template for the abstract here.

Programme

Book of Abstracts

Click here to download.

Speakers

Dr. Cristina Sáez de Pipaón (Orchestra Scientific)

Cristina is one of the founder members of Orquesta Scientifics and its CEO. Orchestra Sci. is an ICIQ-participated spin-off created with the aim of developing and bringing to the market patent inventions by ICIQ’s Galan-Mascaros group, where Cristina did a postdoctoral stay. Orchestra was ICIQ’s first spin-off company and it serves as an example of technology transfer of research results to the industry.

Dr. Fernando Gomollón (Graphene Flagship)

PhD in Organic Chemistry and science communicator. He’s currently the Press and Communications Coordinator of the Graphene Flagship, one of the biggest EU funded projects with a budget of €1bn. He also collaborates periodically with ‘En Ruta con la Ciencia’, Tercer Milenio, and Chemistry World. Fernando was ICIQ’s Press Officer from 2016 to 2018.

Dr. Bibiana Campos (C&EN)

Bibiana acquired wide experience in the publishing industry while working at the Royal Society of Chemistry, the European Respiratory Society and Advanstar Communications.
Currently, she is the Editor in Chief and VP of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) of the Media Group. C&EN produces comprehensive and authoritative journalism about the world of chemistry, including coverage of recent research advances, chemical safety practices, industry, funding and policy trends. C&EN has been published by the American Chemical Society since 1923.

Nessa Carson (Pfizer)

Nessa Carson is a high-throughput experimentation chemist who uses lab robotics for reaction optimization in drug discovery. Her background is in synthetic organic chemistry, in which she earned Master’s degrees from Oxford University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Nessa can be found online as SuperScienceGrl, and claims to have gained all of her career moves from Twitter.

Dr. Jesús Campos (IIQ

Jesús studied Chemistry at University of Sevilla and then he moved to the University of Manchester (MPhil, Prof. John D. Sutherland, 2008). Back to Spain he worked on fundamental organometallic chemistry (Prof. Ernesto Carmona), obtaining an International PhD Distinction (2012). He then worked in green catalysis and energy-related transformations as a postdoctoral researcher (Prof. Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University). After a second postdoctoral period (Talentia Postdoc Fellowship, Prof. Simon Aldridge, University of Oxford), in 2016 he moved back to the University of Sevilla (Marie Curie IF fellowship). One year later he was awarded with a permanent position as Research Scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to develop his independent career at the Institute of Chemical Research (IIQ) at Sevilla.

Dr. Matthieu Tissot (UCB)

Matthieu received his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) under the supervision of Prof. Alexakis working on asymmetric catalysis. After a postdoctoral position with Prof. Gaunt focused on the total synthesis of Morphine at the University of Cambridge (UK), Matthieu joined GlaxoSmithKline (UK) as process chemist developing new synthetic routes for active pharmaceutical ingredients. In 2016, he joined UCB Pharma (Belgium) in their discovery department, where he is implementing new enabling flow chemistry technologies and tools to support the delivery of lead candidates from medicinal chemistry projects.

Awards

The Best Oral Communication and Best Poster Presentation will be recognised with an award, selected by the speakers and the organising committee.

Organising committee

Pablo Bonilla
Miguel Claros
Federico Dattila
Ana García
José Gómez
Joan Mayans
Daniele Mazzarella
Andrea Moneo
Andreu Tortajada

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