March 8, 2019
Cristina García-Morales, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Reactivity and Characterization of Gold(I) Carbenes: Key Intermediates in Gold(I) Catalysis” (assigned to the Department of Organic and Analytical Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 8th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members […]
February 22, 2019
Prof. Feliu Maseras, ICIQ group leader, has been appointed as Associate Editor of the journal ACS Catalysis. He joins a team of eighteen associate editors and will strengthen the journal’s expertise in theoretical and computational molecular catalysis. ACS Catalysis is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2011 by the American Chemical Society. It is an […]
February 18, 2019
The CREATE project, part of the Horizon 2020 framework, has reached the two-year milestone. The 11 partnering organisations celebrated a meeting on Montpellier last January where they prepared the roadmap for the projects’ next steps. The CREATE consortium aims at improving the production of renewable energy by providing more sustainable alternatives than some of the technologies […]
February 14, 2019
La publicació, adreçada a nens i nenes, recull el contingut dels tallers del cicle La Ciència de la Xocolata, en què dones investigadores de la URV i de l’ICIQ expliquen la seva recerca amb el cacau com a element transversal “La Tina corre una mica, esquiva un bassal, puja dues escales, saluda el conserge i […]
February 13, 2019
The Catalan section of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society (RSEQ) has granted one of the ‘Josep Castells’ awards 2018 to Santiago Cañellas, postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Miquel Pericàs group who started as a PhD student in the same goup with a MINECO FPI-Severo Ochoa Grant. The Josep Castells award recognizes the two best PhD theses of the […]
February 12, 2019
Aquesta iniciativa de divulgació científica està pensada per a què els mestres la treballin amb els seus alumnes de 5è i 6è de primària. L’han impulsat la Facultat de Química de la URV i l’ICIQ amb el suport de l’Observatori de la Igualtat de la Universitat Portar a les aules de primària referents femenins del […]
February 11, 2019
Núria Picas is a fire-fighter, mountaineer, long-distance runner, and anything she puts her mind into. Double champion of the Ultra-Trail World Tour, Picas has won highly competitive races such as the Transgrancanaria, the Ultra Trail of Mount Fuji, the Buff Epic Trail or the Ultra Pirineo, where she has won four times. Now, she combines […]