ICIQ and the Japanese engineering firm ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation have signed a license agreement granting ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation the right to commercialise the ioChem-BD software in Japan. “Seeing how our software is widely adopted by academia and an interesting business opportunity to IT companies says a lot about our team’s scientific background and capabilities,” says […]

The European Academy of Sciences has elected Prof. Ballester as a member, based on his academic achievements. “I am thrilled and highly honoured to have been elected as a member of the EURASC. I will do my best to spread the scope of EURASC in the international scientific community,” states Ballester. Prof. Ballester is a […]

Finding innovative and sustainable solutions to societal problems is a major goal for ICIQ researchers. Now, Dr. Felipe Garcés, a postdoctoral researcher in the Galán-Mascarós group, and Khalid Azmani, a PhD student from the URV whose thesis is being co-directed by Prof. Galán-Mascarós, have joined the Collider OnCampus programme with the HyCloPho project. The HyCloPho […]

ICIQ and BASF have renewed their collaboration agreement until 2023. The director of the institute, Prof. Emilio Palomares; and the, general manager of BASF Spain, Carles Navarro, have been in charge of initiating this new period of collaboration. The main novelty of the agreement is the creation of the BASF-ICIQ Awards for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. […]

Helena Armengol i Relats, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cycloadditions and their Application in the Synthesis of Natural Products” (assigned to the Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 14th.   The members of the evaluation committee were: […]

Eduardo de Pedro, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre, has defended his PhD thesis entitled “New Organic Catalysts for the Photochemical Generation of Radicals” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 13th.   The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Jose […]

Cristina Maquilón, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Arjan W. Kleij, has defended her PhD thesis entitled “New and Functional Cyclic Carbonates for Polymer Applications” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 11th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Agustín Lara Sánchez […]