On Thursday 15th December took place the ICIQ Christmas Celebration 2022. After 2 years because of pandemic, we could finally have a big celebration with no restrictions. As in previous years, since 2012 we have the tradition of the Door Decoration Contest. A total of 8 doors / teams were participating this year. The most […]

Investing in knowledge and innovation is one of the a key objectives for ICIQ’s direction, which for the second time has promoted the call ICIQ 2022 Strategic Funds (ISFC 22) within the framework of the Severo Ochoa Program. The aim of this call is to fund risky research projects lead by ICIQ Group Leaders. The projects […]

Albert Sabadell, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Interpretable models to explain Heterogeneous Catalysis” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 12th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. Dr. Jean-Didier Maréchal (Universitat Autònoma […]

The aim of these grants is to promote R+D+i activities in order to increase the competitiveness and international leadership science and technology from Spain through the generation of scientific knowledge by way of qualityresearch oriented towards the ecological transition and the digital transition. The ecological transition is supported by the following environmental objectives: climate change […]

ICIQ has been granted European Union – NextGeneration funds for two new R+D+i Projects. These grants are intended to promote the culture of transfer and the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of research groups, as well as contribute to strengthening the strategies for transferring knowledge and results of the beneficiary institutions of said projects. The projects […]

Geyla Dubed Bandomo, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol (ICIQ), has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Development and Mechanistic Study of Single Sites in 2D-Covalent Organic Frameworks for CO2 Electroreduction” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 22nd. The members of the […]

Dr. Katherine Villa, who joined ICIQ on 2021 as ”la Caixa” Junior Leader, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. These grants are worth up to €1.5 M for a five-year project and have been announced today. Dr. Villa will undertake the project entitled ‘Engineering of Photo-rechargeable Nanoswimmers using Multicomponent Heterojunctions’ (Photoswim). […]