The objective of this institutional visit is to establish alliances and new projects with Finish research and R&D institutions. CERCA delegation is led by Lluís Rovira, director of Catalan Research Centres Institute (CERCA) and other directors and researchers. All meetings have a high technical and institutional component with the aim to raise awareness of the […]

Navid Jameeimoghaddam, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Nickel and Iron complexes for electrochemical proton and Carbon dioxide reduction” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on September 9th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Jordi […]

Davide Spinnato, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Dithiocarbamates: new organic catalysts for the photochemical generation of radicals” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on September 7th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Maurizio […]

Researchers from the Innovative Training Network NOAH Lab have created a suitcase with four experiments on supramolecular chemistry to carry out in the classroom It’s time to go back to school, and so does chemistry. Young researchers pursuing their doctorate in Prof. Ballester’s research group under the umbrella of the Innovative Training Network of the […]

The 71st Nobel Laureate Meeting, held in Lindau (Germany) in early July, gathered hundreds of young researchers from around the globe and about 30 Nobel Prize winners for a week of networking and career discussion. In this edition, centred on Chemistry, three ICIQers attended the prestigious meeting: Dr. Vasileios Tseliou, a postdoctoral researcher in the […]

Raúl Pérez Soto, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Feliu Maseras (ICIQ) and Dr. Maria Besora (URV), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Modeling the Self-Assembly of Cage Molecules” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 29th. The members of the evaluation committee were: […]

ICIQ group leader Dr. Mónica Pérez-Temprano has won the 2021 Young Investigator Award by the Organic Division of EuChemS for her contribution “to the U3D goal (Understand, Discover, Design and Develop), novel and more efficient transition metal-catalyzed reactions.” The Pérez-Temprano group is focused on giving mechanistic investigations of chemical reactions a new dimension by using […]