Primavera Pelosin, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet (ICIQ), has virtually defended her PhD thesis entitled “Water Oxidation Catalysis Using First Row Transition Metals” (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 22nd. The members of the evaluation committee were: Dr. Elisabetta Iengo […]

The Severo Ochoa – María de Maeztu Alliance (SOMMa) gathers over 50 top Spanish research institutions including ICIQ. Since its creation, in 2017, SOMMa has worked to promote Spanish Excellence in research and to enhance its social impact at national and international levels. Now, Maria Blasco, director of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), […]

Shang-Zheng Sun, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Ruben Martín (ICIQ), has virtually defended his PhD thesis entitled “Ni-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling Reactions to Forge sp3 Carbon Linkages” (assigned to the Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 15th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. […]

Anastasia Tkacheva, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muñiz (ICIQ), Prof.Miquel À. Pericàs (ICIQ) & Dr. Serena Fantasia (Roche), has defended online her PhD thesis entitled “Complex Anionic Halide Reagents as a Novel Useful Compound Class for Direct C-H Functionalizations: Studies Towards Aromatic Amination Reactions” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department […]

Estefanía del Castillo, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muñiz (ICIQ) & Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has virtually defended her PhD thesis entitled “Applications of the Hofmann-Löffler Reaction for C-H Functionalization in Total Synthesis” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 10th. […]

Federico Dattila, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López and Dr. Rodrigo García Muelas (ICIQ), has virtually defended his PhD thesis entitled “Theoretical Models for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 on Copper Catalysts under Working Conditions” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on […]

Dr. Ghaderian, former PhD student in Prof. Llobet’s group has won the Gold prize in the “Explaining Their Research in a Video” competition talking about his investigation on “Water Oxidation with Ru-bda.” In the video, Dr. Ghaderian explains the need to replace fossil fuels with sustainable energy sources to stop global warming. Water and sunlight […]