Marta Borges Ordoño, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Atsushi Urakawa (ICIQ) has defended her Thesis entitled “Insights into the co-catalyst effects in light-driven reactions for water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) on October 25th at ICIQ’s Auditorium. The members […]

Researchers from across Europe gathered last week at ICIQ for the scientific kick off of the European School for Artificial Leaf Electrode Devices (eSCALED) project. Officially launched on April 2018, eSCALED is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action project with a double ambition: to train the researchers of the future and to develop a device able to […]

Sofia Ferrer Cabrera, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Gold Catalysis: From Fundamentals to the Synthesis of Bullvalenes and Naturally Occurring Sesquiterpenes” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 18th at the ICIQ […]

Yuanyuan Shi, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet (ICIQ) and Prof. Mario Lanza (Soochow University, China), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Materials and Molecules for Pollution Free Clean Energy” (assigned to the Chemical Engineering Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 15th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members […]

Joan González Fabra, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Carles Bo (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Computational Design of Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Recycling” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 9th at URV’s Chemistry Faculty. The members of the evaluation committee […]

Ilan Marek is a professor at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He studied in France, received his PhD thesis in 1988 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. After one year as a postdoctoral fellow, he obtained a research position at the Centre National de la […]

Summer has come and gone, and so have the Summer Fellows ICIQ has hosted for the last two months. From July until September, ten chemistry undergraduates from around Europe have joined ICIQ’s research groups to have their first approach to research. “It’s been very useful to see the research environment outside of university and to […]