November 3, 2021
The European industrial doctorate project VIRO-FLOW (Marie Sklodowska Curie programme – MSCA) has reached its ending and all three PhD students must defend their thesis! They spent half their PhDs (18 months) at the German Biotech company AiCuris GmbH, located within Bayer’s site in Wuppertal (North Rhine Westphalia), and the other half at Ertflow’s laboratory […]
November 3, 2021
Pharmaceutical compounds may crystallize in multiple crystalline forms, either solvent-free (anhydrous) or containing a solvent in the crystalline structure (solvates). A particular case of solvates are hydrates, which incorporate water molecules in the crystal lattice. They are specifically important as: The innocuity of water makes hydrates good candidates to formulate and be administered Water is […]
October 29, 2021
The ICIQ Auditorium has been renamed to honour the memory of our colleague Prof. Dr. Kilian Muñiz with an intimate event that has gathered relatives, closest friends and colleagues at ICIQ on the 29th of October. During the event, family, friends, colleagues and members of the research group of Prof. Dr. Muñiz have shared memories […]
October 28, 2021
Dr. Fabio Juliá has been awarded a ”La Caixa” Junior Leader Fellowship to develop the project “Iron cross-coupling Reactions enabled by Visible Light: A sustainable strategy to assemble functional molecules.” Through the ”La Caixa” Foundation MSCA CO-FUND award, Juliá will lead his own research project and guide PhD students and postdocs. Juliá developed his PhD […]
October 26, 2021
Dr. Katherine Villa has been awarded a ”La Caixa” Junior Leader Fellowship to develop the project “One-Dimensional Nanostructured Catalytic Systems for the Gas-Phase Photocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide.” Through the ”La Caixa” Foundation MSCA CO-FUND award, Villa will lead her own research project and guide PhD students and postdocs. Villa obtained her bachelors in Chemistry […]
October 22, 2021
ICIQ alumnus Dr. Mauro Mato (former PhD student in the Echavarren group) has won one of the 2021 Alfred R. Bader Award for Student Innovation. This award recognises the work of chemistry graduate students, whose innovative research is making an impact on synthetic organic chemistry and has the potential to advance science in the future. […]
October 21, 2021
Dr. Arianna Brandolese, a postdoctoral researcher working in Prof. Kleij’s group, has won the 2021 “Cinzia Chiappe prize” awarded by the Interdivisional group in Green Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI). The award aims to recognize the two best PhD theses in Italy in the area of Green Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry. The […]