Dr. Mariano Curti, I2:ICIQ Impulsion fellow in Romero’s group, has been awarded 224000 CPU-hours by the Spanish Supercomputing Network (Red Española de Supercomputación) to perform simulations on protein – chromophore assemblies. This is the second four-month period he has been awarded through an open call to researchers working in Spain. The granted hours will be […]

Finding innovative and sustainable solutions to our material needs is one of the core objectives of green chemistry. The myriad plastics that envelop our daily life – from mattresses to food and cars – are mostly made from oil-based monomers which are the building blocks of polymers. Therefore, finding bio-based monomers for polymer synthesis is […]

Research builds bridges between apparently distant concepts, creating new knowledge in the process. In the same way, bringing together scientists from distant institutions reaps benefits for all involved. The group of Prof. Núria López has hosted a student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a four-week remote internship through the MIT-Spain Program of […]

For the third consecutive year, ICIQ researchers have participated in the #100tífiques initiative, promoted by the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI), in collaboration with the Department of Education. #100tífiques aims to bring the work of female researchers closer to 10- to 13-year-old students and to […]

The Catalan section of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society (RSEQ) has granted one of the 2020 ‘Josep Castells’ awards to Dr. Jesús San José Orduna for his thesis entitled “Trapping Elusive Cp*CoIII Metallacycles: Implications in C–H Functionalization Processes.” Dr. San José Orduna did his PhD in the Pérez-Temprano group and is now working as a postdoctoral researcher in the […]

Negishi cross-coupling reactions have been widely used to form C-C bonds since the 1970s and are often perceived as the result of two metals (i.e zinc and palladium/nickel) working in synergy. But like all relationships, there is more under the surface than what we first expected. PhD student Craig Day and Dr. Rosie Somerville from […]

Ricardo Molina, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pau Ballester (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Calix[4]pyrrole Based Receptors for the Recognition of Ion Pairs” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on February 4th.   The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Juan […]