Michael Higham, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Theoretical Studies of Heterogeneous Catalysis for Halogen Chemistry” (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 13th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation committee were: […]

Qiang Li, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Density Functional Theory Studies of Biomass Conversion on Metal Surfaces: From Small to Large Molecules” (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 8th at the ICIQ Auditorium. […]

Alicia Monleón, postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Rubén Martín’s group, was one of the 30 scientist selected for this year’s edition of  ‘Somos científicos, sácanos de aquí’, the Spanish edition of the prestigious international science outreach programme ‘I’m a scientist, get me out of here!‘ Thanks to this fantastic outreach programme, supported by FECYT, Bayer, CSIC, Ciudad […]

Today and tomorrow, representatives from all of the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu Excellence Centres and Unit are together at the ‘100xCiencia2’ conference in Alicante (Spain). The main theme of the conference is ‘co-creating value in scientific research’ – several experts in knowledge transfer will share their experience in innovation, intelectual property and the creation […]

Jeroen Rintjema, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Arjan W. Kleij (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Aluminum-Catalyzed Coupling of Carbon Dioxide and Cyclic Ethers” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 31st at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation committee […]

Prof. José Ramón Galán Mascarós’ group, together with URV researchers, publish a novel water oxidation catalyst in Nature Chemistry Electrolysis, splitting the water molecule with electricity, is the cleanest way to obtain hydrogen, a clean and renewable fuel. Now, researchers at ICIQ and URV, led by Prof. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, designed a new catalyst that reduces […]

Joan Ramon Lao, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anton Vidal (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Rhodium Catalysis in Enantioselective Hydrogenative Transformations: From the Design of New Ligands to Reactions of Atypical Substrates” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 30th at […]