The global economy still relies on the fossil carbon sources of petroleum, natural gas and coal, not just to produce fuel, but also as a raw material used by the chemical industry to manufacture plastics and countless other chemical compounds. Although efforts have been made for some time to find ways of manufacturing liquid fuels […]

Elsevier, the global information analytics company specializing in science and health, has selected Ana G. Herraiz, PhD student in ICIQ Marcos García Sueros’s group as one of the 45 finalists for the 2019 Reaxys PhD Prize. Launched in 2010, the Reaxys PhD Prize celebrates innovative and rigorous research by ambitious young chemists. This year’s competition […]

Giulia Moncelsi, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pablo Ballester (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Stimuli-responsive host-guest systems decorated with hemithioindigo and spiropyran units” (assigned to the Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 26th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the examining […]

Francesco Della Monica, postdoctoral researcher working at the Kleij Group, has been awarded the Cinzia Chiappe Prize 2019 by the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI) to the two best PhD Thesis in the area of ‘Green Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry’ – being Dr. Carla Calabrese the other recipient of the prize. Della Monica has been awarded […]

Carla Casadevall, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Mechanistic Studies of Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Homogeneous Iron and Ruthenium Complexes and Light-driven Organic Reductions with a Dual Cobalt/Copper Catalytic System” (assigned to the Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) […]

Lucas Carreras, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anton Vidal (ICIQ) has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Supramolecular Catalysis: Halogen Bonding and Regulation Strategies Applied to Hydroboration and C-H Functionalization Reactions” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 17th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The […]

Ilario Gelmetti, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Advanced Characterization and Modelling of Charge Transfer in Perovskite Solar Cells” (assigned to the Department of Electrical Electronic Engineering and Automation of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 15th July at the ICIQ Auditorium. The […]