The IVORI Programme has welcomed its first group of students at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), marking a key moment in the institute’s efforts to support the next generation of female researchers. These grants are designed for talented female graduates in chemistry from Latin America, Spanish-speaking countries, and Brazil, encouraging their pursuit […]

Saeed Shareef, a PhD student who is under Dr. Elisabet Romero supervision, has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Engineering Excitonic and Charge-Transfer States in Bio-Inspired Chromophore-Protein Assemblies” publicly on Thursday, October 10th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. Dr. Joanna Grzyb (University of Wroclaw, Poland), Prof. Dr. John Leslie Ross Anderson (University of […]

The group of Prof. Kleij present a versatile approach that enables the development of biobased hybrid materials with diverse structures based on polymer brush-type macromolecules Dr. Dimitrios Skoulas from the group of Prof. Arjan W. Kleij at ICIQ in collaboration with the Catalan company ONYRIQ have reported a straightforward functionalization protocol for poly(limonene carbonate) (abbreviated […]

On October 8th and 9th 2024, the EU-funded PEARL project consortium convened for its General Assembly at ICIQ-CERCA in Tarragona, Spain. At the two-day event, the partners came together to assess the progress of the project after 12 months. The assembly kicked off with a session led by the Università degli Studi di Roma Tor […]

On October 8th 2024, the 2nd General Assembly and Executive Board meeting of this EU-funded project took place at ICIQ The Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ-CERCA) hosted SUNGATE’s 2nd General Assembly and Executive Board meeting on October 8th, 2024. The event brought together key stakeholders, including project partners and advisory board members to discuss the […]

The 5th edition of the programme Repte Experimenta comes to an end with the solving of a fictional crime at the ICIQ outreach laboratory. The crime scene investigation was carried out by the winners of this edition, students from the first courses of secondary school Repte Experimenta is a FECYT project, led by Universitat Rovira […]

Prof. Katherine Villa, ICIQ Group Leader and expert in the field of photocatalysis and photoactive micromotors, has been awarded tenure after an evaluation process led by the ICIQ Scientific Advisory Board. This decision recognizes her outstanding contributions to chemistry research, particularly her work in developing advanced nanostructures that harness solar energy to convert pollutants into […]