Anna L. Moore is Regents Professor at the Arizona State University. Prof. Moore research interests center on artificial photosynthesis with an approach that is mimicry of the steps used by photosynthetic organisms to convert solar energy into chemical potential. Her research group works on the design and synthesis of analogs of photosynthetic reaction centers consisting […]

David Bastida Borrell, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled ‘Novel Enantioselective Aminocatalytic Processes by means of Vinylogous Reactivity and Photoredox Catalysis’ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 15th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of […]

Irina Sagamanova, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs, Dr. Sonia Sayalero adn Dr. Carles Rodríguez-Escrich, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled ‘New Approaches to Catalyst Design and Immobilization’ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 14th at the ICIQ auditorium. The […]

The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) is a foundation supported by the Catalan Government, which aims to recruit top scientists for the Catalan R&D system. Prof. Lloret-Fillol joined ICIQ in September 2014 and by being appointed as ICREA Research Professor he enters the group of ICIQ group leaders that are also part of the […]

Dolores Melgar Freire, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Carles Bo and Prof. Josep Bonet, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Keplerates: from Electronic Structure to Dynamic Properties” (assigned to the department of Chemical Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 4th at the ICIQ Library. The member of her evaluation […]

The ICIQ held this week the “ICIQ-FIFC Spain-Japan Joint Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of Complex Systems”, co-organized between the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia and the Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry. The symposium hosted researchers from Japan and Spain working in the general field of computational chemistry. Computational chemistry is applied to the […]

Alba Matas Adams, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Semiconductor Nanoparticles as Platform for Bio-Applications and Energy Related Systems” (assigned to the Department of Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 25th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee […]