Giandomenico Magagnano, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Photochemical Processes Enabled by the Direct Excitation of Organic Intermediates” (assigned to the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 24th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the […]

Nathan Daelman, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Theoretical investigations into single-atom catalysts on cerium dioxide: deposition and activation” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 17th at the CTTI Auditorium. The members of […]

Adiran de Aguirre Fondevila, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Feliu Maseras (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Non-Innocent Ligands: from Proton Shuttle to Photo-Activation” (assigned to the Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 21st at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the examining committee […]

Sara Cuadros, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Exploiting Organocatalysis in Photochemical Processes” (assigned to the Department of Analytic and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 17th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the examining committee were: Prof. Svetlana […]

On behalf of the entire research sector, and the research centres of Catalonia in particular, we wish to express our concern following the Spanish Supreme Court’s decision regarding the sentences of the Catalan social and political leaders. In our sector, proper scientific research is founded upon the sharing of ideas. In fact, all of the […]

Researchers from ICIQ’s López group present a new method that allows for the rational design of heterogeneous catalysts. After applying Principal Component Analysis and Regression (PCA) to the adsorption energies of 71 different C1 and C2 species on 12 close-packed (transition) metal surfaces the scientists elucidated, for the first time, an interpretable model in heterogeneous […]

ICIQ joined the Global Climate Strike taking place from the 20th to the 27th of September. On Friday 27th September the ICIQ community took a stand for our future by gathering at the ICIQ reception for a 4-minute 15-second break (in honour of the atmospheric 415 CO2 ppm achieved earlier this year) and reading the following […]