A significant gender gap has persisted throughout the years at all levels of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, the STEM disciplines all over the world. Even though women have made tremendous progress towards increasing their participation in higher education, they are still underrepresented in these fields. Gender equality has always been a core issue for […]

Diego Garay, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Carles Bo (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Unweaving Complex Reactivity: Graph-Based Tools to Handle Chemical Reaction Networks” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on February 10th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. Antonio Largo Cabrerizo (Universidad […]

The open software platform ioChem-BD that parses, stores and tags computational chemistry data has reached a new milestone with 500 open datasets linked to journal research articles identified by DOIs and more than 300k indexed structures of molecules and materials. The software fosters the pioneering role of the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-CERCA) […]

Is your company looking for disruptive technologies, but it is missing the expertise and facilities to develop it? Are you looking for a partner to outsource any custom synthesis? Do you want to implement state of the art technologies in your business model? Catalyst Selection and Optimization Laboratory (CSOL) is ICIQ’s innovation unit, working in […]

The Next-ICIQ Project has been successfully granted by the “Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación” (MCIN), under the “Preparación y Gestión de Proyectos Europeos 2022” call. The Next-ICIQ aim is to provide ICIQ with the structure and knowledge necessary for the adequate promotion, preparation, support and management of European projects, so that ICIQ can improve the […]

Juntament amb altres científiques de la  Universitat Rovira i Virgili, la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona i l’Institut de Ciències del Mar per normalitzar els referents femenins en ciència. En el marc del 11F, Dia Internacional de les Dones i les Nenes en ciència, el Repte Experimenta proposa una experiència educativa gamificada, per a despertar vocacions científiques entre els […]

Prof. Arjan W. Kleij, ICIQ Group Leader and ICREA Research Professor, has been  the winner of the 2023 European Sustainable Chemistry Award (ESCA). The award recognizes Prof. Kleij’s world leading position in CO2 valorization and especially catalytic methods for the synthesis and applications of cyclic carbonates. Prof. Kleij, with more than 15.200 citations and a h-index […]