July 29, 2015
Prof. Jonathan L. Sessler from the University of Texas at Austin visited ICIQ yesterday invited by Prof. Ballester group. He delivered a talk entitled ‘Calixpyrroles: From Anion Receptors to Self-Assembled Materials’. Prof. Sessler is currently the Rowland Pettit Centennial Chair in Chemistry at University of Texas at Austin. He has authored or coauthored over 590 research publications and […]
July 22, 2015
Xueqiang Wang, PhD student in Prof. Ruben Martin group, has received on of the three Lilly awards for outstanding doctoral students for his work on Ni-catalyzed Fixation of Heterocummelenes into Organic Matter and C-H Functionalization Reactions. With these awards, Lilly wants to recognise research excellence and the link between the academic field and the pharmaceutical […]
July 22, 2015
ICIQ Summer Fellowships are aimed at chemistry or related disciplines undergraduate students. The Summer Fellowships consist of a three-month paid internship inone of ICIQ’s research groups during the months of July, August and September. The recipients of these scholarships come from different parts of the world and they have started their projects in their respective […]
July 20, 2015
The appointment of the Director marks the launch of the new institute, a scientific initiative involving CRG, ICIQ, ICN2, ICFO, IFAE and IRB Barcelona. As of September, she will be responsible for promoting interdisciplinary research strategies, tech transfer, and international graduate training with the six centres that compose the Institute. The Barcelona Institute is one […]
July 20, 2015
Dr. Juan M. Sarria Toro, Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Echavarren’s group, has received the ETH Medal Award for his Thesis entitled ‘Discovery, Development and Study of Carbenoid Mediated Reactions from Olefin Metathesis to Cyclopropanation’ developed at ETH under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Chen. On March, he joined the group of Prof. Echavarren where […]
July 15, 2015
The group of Prof. E. Palomares has published a work in Nature Communications in collaboration with Dr. Oscar Custance (NIMS, Japan). The work identifies for the first time important defects in the surface of TiO2 (anatase) using a combination of advanced spectroscopic techniques with atomic resolution and theory. The understanding of the TiO2 surface at the […]
July 15, 2015
Dr. Pérez-Temprano will join ICIQ next Autumn through ICIQ’s Starting Career Programme (ICIQ-SCP), a programme aimed at attracting new talent and help young researchers to start their independent careers. “I’m really excited with this great opportunity. After my postdoc in Melanie Sanford’s lab at University of Michigan, I cannot imagine a better place to start […]